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Author Jewell, Katherine Rye, author.

Title Live from the underground : a history of college radio / Katherine Rye Jewell.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
1 hold on first copy returned of 2 copies

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 Simsbury Public Library - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order
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Description pages cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned to college radio to defy the mainstream-and they ended up disrupting popular music and commercial radio in the process. In this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power to the politics of higher education as much as they did to upstartbohemian music scenes coast to coast. Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music-they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlookedcontributions to popular culture that students, DJs, and listeners never anticipated. More than an ode to beloved stations, this book will resonate with both music fans and observers of the politics of culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject College radio stations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / General
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781469677255 29.95
1469677253 29.95
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