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College radio
college rock
community radio
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Federal Communications Commission
freeform radio
higher education
history of public broadcasting
indie rock
KTRU (Rice University)
major label music industry
National Public Radio
Nirvana
Parents Music Resource Council
popular music and censorship
Public Enemy
R.E.M.
radio formats
Sub Pop Records
the Replacements
U2
underground hip-hop
WBAU (Adelphi University)
WMBR (MIT)
WUOB (University of Georgia)
Product details
- ISBN 9781469676203
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 upstart bohemian 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 overlooked contributions 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.
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 overlooked contributions 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.
Katherine Rye Jewell is professor of history at Fitchburg State University.
