WBCN and the American Revolution
How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
$64.79
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2022
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262046253 |
| Author: | Bill Lichtenstein |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 254mm |
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Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2022.
Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2022.
About The Author
Bill Lichtenstein
Bill Lichtenstein is a journalist and documentary producer. Winner of more than sixty major journalism awards, he has written for publications including the New York Times, the Nation, the Village Voice, and the Boston Globe, and produced and directed the feature-length documentary, WBCN and the American Revolution. He worked at WBCN from 1971 to 1977, beginning as a teenage volunteer on the station’s “Listener Line.”
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