WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
In 1968, Ray Riepen founded a radio station that played the music young people actually wanted to hear and platformed announcers who felt free to express their opinions on subjects like recreational drugs and the war in Vietnam. WBCN quickly became the hub of the antiwar countercultural movement in Boston. Fully illustrated some in color.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 286
Publisher: MIT Press
Size: 10¼x11¼ inches
ISBN: 9780262046251
Item #: 9398082
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