Free Radio: Electronic Civil Disobedience

by Lawrence Soley

Overview

This book reviews the history of the microradio movement, enabling readers to understand why and how it has captured momentum and power. It discusses the anti-Nazi underground stations and other resistance stations, explaining how previous stations provided vehicles for democratic communications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367014377
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2019
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — Freedom Calling — The Origins of Free Radio — Free Radio and National Liberation — Limits on Free Speech in the United States: Government Licensing and Corporate Censorship — Pirate Radio: The Early Rebellion — Microradio: The Revolution Begins — The Free Radio Revolution: Free Radio Berkeley and the West Coast Revolt — The Revolution Widens — The Counterrevolution

Editorial Reviews

An informed and impassioned defense of the constitutional right of Americans to operate unlicensed, low-power radio stations in their communities, a right not recognized by the Federal Communications Commission, who, Soley (communication, journalism, Marquette U.) claims, violate their mandate to protect the public interest through policies which increasingly allow the dominance of radio by large corporations. Soley places contemporary pirate radio stations in historical context (beginning with resistance broadcasters in Nazi Germany), traces their history in America, and details the legal struggles of prominent radio activist Stephen Dunifer, whose Radio Free Berkeley has been a litmus test of governmental and judicial response to unlicensed broadcasting. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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