Radio Free Boston
Author: Carter Alan
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1555537294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive story of the pioneering rock radio station that galvanized a city and a generation
Author: Carter Alan
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1555537294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive story of the pioneering rock radio station that galvanized a city and a generation
Author: Bill Lichtenstein
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0262046253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. But that changed the following year, when a Harvard Law School graduate student named Ray Riepen founded a radio station that played music that young people, including the hundreds of thousands at Boston-area colleges, actually wanted to hear. WBCN-FM featured album cuts by such artists as the Mothers of Invention, Aretha Franklin, and Cream, played by announcers who felt free to express their opinions on subjects that ranged from recreational drugs to the war in Vietnam. In this engaging and generously illustrated chronicle, Peabody Award–winning journalist and one-time WBCN announcer Bill Lichtenstein tells the story of how a radio station became part of a revolution in youth culture. At WBCN, creativity and countercultural politics ruled: there were no set playlists; news segments anticipated the satire of The Daily Show; on-air interviewees ranged from John and Yoko to Noam Chomsky; a telephone “Listener Line” fielded questions on any subject, day and night. From 1968 to Watergate, Boston’s WBCN was the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. A cornucopia of images in color and black and white includes concert posters, news clippings, photographs of performers in action, and scenes of joyousness on Boston CommonInterwoven through the narrative are excerpts from interviews with WBCN pioneers, including Charles Laquidara, the “news dissector” Danny Schechter, Marsha Steinberg, and Mitchell Kertzman. Lichtenstein’s documentary WBCN and the American Revolution is available as a DVD sold separately.
Author: Donna L. Halper
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738574103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Boston's radio history begins with pioneering station 1XE/WGI, one of America's first radio stations, and includes the first station to receive a commercial license, WBZ; the first FM radio network, W1XOJ and W1XER; and one of the first news networks, the Yankee News Service. Nationally known bandleaders like Joe Rines and Jacques Renard were first heard on Boston radio, as was one of the first weathercasters, E. B. Rideout. The city has been home to a number of legendary announcers, such as Bob and Ray,Arnie Ginsburg, Dick Summer, Dale Dorman, and Charles Laquidara; talk show giants like Jerry Williams and David Brudnoy; and sports talkers like Eddie Andelman and Glenn Ordway. Many Boston radio personalities, such as Curt Gowdy, "Big Brother" Bob Emery, Don Kent, and Louise Morgan, found fame on television but first established themselves on Boston's airwaves. Since 1920, Boston radio has remained vibrant, proving that live and local stations are as important as ever--Publisher.
Author: Carter Alan
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1555538266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive story of the pioneering rock radio station that galvanized a city and a generation
Author: Joe Castiglione
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781589790810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Veteran broadcaster Joe Castiglione combines the story of his baseball adventures with the Cleveland Indians, the Milwaukee Brewers, and for 20 years, the Boston Red Sox with a travelogue of major American cities.
Author: Howard Bryant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1135297762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed.
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Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Published:
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781558966024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the introduction: Despite our repeated failures, our escapes, and our human tendency to become lost, we are unable to flee God's love." The 100 short essays collected here were originally 5-minute radio sermons broadcast between 1979 and 1999 to rapt Sunday morning audiences on WCRB, a classical radio station near Boston. The sermons address a wide range of issues including blizzards, guns, poetry, marathons, last words, and impossible things before breakfast. Scovel reviews the lives and works of poets, mystics, composers, saints, and charlatans alike. Although these sermons vary in compelling topics, Scovel's storytelling focuses on one centralized theme -- the ways in which God's presence may be discerned in our lives and in nature.
Author: Joe Castiglione
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1600786677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An autobiography of Joe Castiglione that recounts his years in broadcasting and with the Boston Red Sox"--
Author: Steve Elman
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781933212517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the pioneers of talk radio was also one of Boston's most controversial commentators. This biography follows Williams's colorful fifty-year career from the mid-1950s until his recent death.
Author: Stephen Puleo
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010-05-04
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0807050458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively history of Boston’s emergence as a world-class city—home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell—by a beloved Bostonian historian “It’s been quite a while since I’ve read anything—fiction or nonfiction—so enthralling.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island Once upon a time, “Boston Town” was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world’s great metropolises—one that achieved national and international prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism, literature, commerce, and transportation. Long before the frustrations of our modern era, in which the notion of accomplishing great things often appears overwhelming or even impossible, Boston distinguished itself in the last half of the nineteenth century by proving it could tackle and overcome the most arduous of challenges and obstacles with repeated—and often resounding—success, becoming a city of vision and daring. In A City So Grand, Stephen Puleo chronicles this remarkable period in Boston’s history, in his trademark page-turning style. Our journey begins with the ferocity of the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and ends with the glorious opening of America’s first subway station, in 1897. In between we witness the thirty-five-year engineering and city-planning feat of the Back Bay project, Boston’s explosion in size through immigration and annexation, the devastating Great Fire of 1872 and subsequent rebuilding of downtown, and Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone utterance in 1876 from his lab at Exeter Place. These lively stories and many more paint an extraordinary portrait of a half century of progress, leadership, and influence that turned a New England town into a world-class city, giving us the Boston we know today.