Border Radio : Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition /

Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe. This...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Fowler, Gene (Autor), Crawford, Bill (Autor)
Otros Autores: Wolfman, Jack (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Edición:Revised Edition
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Turn Your Radio On
  • Del Rio's Dr. Brinkley: The Big Daddy of Border Radio
  • Purple Shadow on the Rio Grande: Norman Baker in Nuevo Laredo
  • Border Blaster at Black Rock
  • Crazy
  • Please Pass the Tamales, Pappy
  • "'Radio Waves Pay No Attention to Lines on a Map"
  • "Coast to Coast, Border to Border . . . Your Good Neighbor along the Way"
  • Howlin' on a Quarter Million Watts
  • Blasting from Baja
  • Radio Station S-A-V-E-D
  • That Outlaw X
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index of Song Titles
  • "Border Radio" song lyrics from Nevada Slim
  • About the Authors

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