WBCN and the American revolution : how a radio station defined politics, counterculture, and rock and roll /
The story of how legendary radio station WBCN (and by extension the city of Boston) emerged as a central crossroads of the 1960s counterculture and political activism.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2021].
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Table of Contents:
- Boston 1967: before the revolution
- The Boston Tea Party
- Ugly radio is dead
- A new kind of radio
- 1968: the year everything changed and that changed everything
- WBCN and the American revolution
- Campus unrest
- Peace is in the air
- WBCN: the hub of the community and the soundtrack of the city
- WBCN news and public affairs
- The news dissector
- The second wave
- The Lavender Hour: gender freedom in the air
- Lock-up
- We've got to get rid of Nixon
- Rock and roll future
- Nixon's resignation and the end of the revolution
- Lessons learned.