Uneasy Listening

ISBN-13: 9781900355520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str.

Matthew Lasar

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Uneasy Listening tells the story of the epic battle over fivelistener-supported radio stations that rocked the American Leftand raised difficult questions about public broadcasting in theUnited States that have yet to be answered.Praise for Matthew Lasars first book on community broadcasting,Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network:"Pacifica Radio outstrips anything that has ever been produced notonly about the Pacifica experience, but about American cultural radio,"Lorenzo Milam, author of Sex and Broadcasting"A tremendous book, combining superb scholarship with anintoxicating story of vision, creativity and heroism,"Robert McChesney, author of Our Media, Not Theirs "Enlightening and entertaining . . . makes a real contribution to the history of postwar America," Eric Foner, author of The Story of American Freedom Lasar has an eye for paradox, irony, and contradiction, but he is first and foremost an able and astute historian, not a satirical novelist, and he does a lot more than air KPFAs dirty laundry. He shows how much the philosophy of the station was shaped in part by the politicalatmosphere of the Cold War and McCarthyism . . ."Jonah Raskin, Santa Rose Press Democrat