{"product_id":"border-radio-quacks-yodelers-pitchmen-psychics-and-other-amazing-broadcasters-of-the-american-airwaves-revised-edition-paperback-softback-9780292725355","title":"Border Radio; Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292725355","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBorder Radio\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eQuacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGene Fowler (Author), Bill Crawford (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292725355\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e371 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis book adds immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of the power the aural medium possesses to mirror and shape culture.\u003c\/div\u003e (Communication Booknotes Quarterly)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This book traces the eventful history of border radio from its founding in the 1930s by \"goat-gland doctor\" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s. Along the way, it shows how border broadcasters pioneered direct sales advertising, helped prove the power of electronic media as a political tool, aided in spreading the popularity of country music, rhythm and blues, and rock, and laid the foundations for today's electronic church. The authors have revised the text to include even more first-hand information and a larger selection of photographs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Foreword by Wolfman Jack \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Turn Your Radio On \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Del Rio's Dr. Brinkley: The Big Daddy of Border Radio \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Purple Shadow on the Rio Grande: Norman Baker in Nuevo Laredo \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Border Blaster at Black Rock \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Crazy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Please Pass the Tamales, Pappy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. \"\u003cbr\u003eRadio Waves Pay No Attention to Lines on a Map\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. \"\u003cbr\u003eCoast to Coast, Border to Border . . . Your Good Neighbor along the Way\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8. Howlin' on a Quarter Million Watts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. Blasting from Baja \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10. Radio Station S-A-V-E-D \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11. That Outlaw X \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Selected Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eBorder Radio\"\u003cbr\u003e song lyrics from Nevada Slim \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About the Authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702425186584,"sku":"9780292725355","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/border-radio-quacks-yodelers-pitchmen-psychics-and-other-amazing-broadcasters-of-the-american-airwaves-revised-edition-paperback-softback-9780292725355","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}