From: bgirard@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
Subject: community radio book
Date: 7 Nov 92 08:26:18 GMT
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Originator: wdp@gagme


 
         A PASSION FOR RADIO: Radio Waves and Community
       A community radio anthology edited by Bruce Girard
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     "Radio could be the most wonderful public communication
     system imaginable... if it were capable not only of
     transmitting, but of receiving, of making the listener not
     only hear but also speak". 
     - Bertolt Brecht - 1930
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Written by people actively - and passionately - involved in the
medium, this book presents the experiences of more than twenty
alternative radio stations located in as many countries on every
continent of the globe.
 
>From "Radio Venceremos", which for twelve years was the official voice
of the Salvadorean guerrilla, to the native-owned "Wawatay Radio Network"
in northern Ontario, alternative and community radio stations play an
essential role for those at the margins of society - a medium that lets
them speak as well as hear.
 
These are not radio stations with schedules filled with pop
music, traffic reports and "easy listening" newscasts. They are
stations with programming marked with a passion rarely seen in
contemporary media. Broadcasting to communities left out of
mainstream media, community radio does much more than entertain
and inform its listeners. It **involves** them in a participatory
communication process. Community radio is a medium that is
conscious of its role in education, development and, above all,
community organizing.
 
Among the stories told in the book are:
     * Radio "Echo of Moscow" and the August 1991 coup d'etat.
     * Two women's radio projects - in Peru and the Philippines.
     * How indigenous people's radios in Canada and Mexico
     strengthen their communities.
     * The Marconi Radio Tasters' Cafe that is the doorway to the
     world of "Radio 100", an Amsterdam squatters' station.
     * The positive and negative side of international aid for a
     Sri Lankan local radio project. 
     * The history of and prospects for community radio in South
     Africa.
     * A tiny Black "pirate" station that has challenged the
     police and the Federal Communications Commission in the USA.
     * The role of the El Salvadorean guerrilla station "Radio
     Venceremos" in the major rebel offensive of November, 1989.
     * Two radio stations in the Caribbean, one in Haiti and one in
     Martinique, that have contributed to the political and cultural
     development of their people.
 
Bruce Girard is a founder of AMARC (World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters) and former editor of AMARC's bulletin "InteRadio".
 
The book has been published in English and Spanish and will be released
in French early in 1993.
 
English edition 212 pp
Black Rose Books - Montreal/New York
Hardcover ISBN 1-895431-35-2
Paperback ISBN 1-895431-34-4
 
CP 1258                       340 Nagel Drive
Succ. Place du Parc           Cheektowaga, New York 14225
Montreal, Quebec              USA
Canada  H2W 2R3
 
 
Spanish edition 277 pp
ISBN 9978-55-006-2
Coleccion "Manuales Didacticos" Volumen 18
Ediciones CIESPAL - Quito, Ecuador