{"product_id":"wbcn-and-the-american-revolution-isbn-9780262046251","title":"WBCN and the American Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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 felt free to express their opinions on subjects that ranged from recreational drugs to the war in Vietnam. In this engaging and generously illustrated chronicle, Peabody Award–winning journalist and one-time WBCN announcer Bill Lichtenstein tells the story of how a radio station became part of a revolution in youth culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt WBCN, creativity and countercultural politics ruled: there were no set playlists; news segments anticipated the satire of The Daily Show; on-air interviewees ranged from John and Yoko to Noam Chomsky; a telephone “Listener Line” fielded questions on any subject, day and night. From 1968 to Watergate, Boston’s WBCN was the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. A cornucopia of images in color and black and white includes concert posters, news clippings, photographs of performers in action, and scenes of joyousness on Boston CommonInterwoven through the narrative are excerpts from interviews with WBCN pioneers, including Charles Laquidara, the “news dissector” Danny Schechter, Marsha Steinberg, and Mitchell Kertzman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLichtenstein’s documentary WBCN and the American Revolution is available as a DVD sold separately.Foreword by Charles Laquidara ix\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Ty Burr xi\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Louis Menand xiii\u003cbr\u003ePreface xv\u003cbr\u003e1 Boston 1967: Before the Revolution 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Boston Tea Party 13\u003cbr\u003e3 Ugly Radio Is Dead 35\u003cbr\u003e4 A New Kind of Radio 53\u003cbr\u003e5 1968: The Year That Everything Changed and that Changed Everything 61\u003cbr\u003e6 WBCN and the American Revolution 77\u003cbr\u003e7 Campus Unrest 91\u003cbr\u003e8 Peace Is in the Air 111\u003cbr\u003e9 WBCN: The Hub of the Community and the Soundtrack of the City 127\u003cbr\u003e10 WBCN News and Public Affairs 149\u003cbr\u003e11 The News Dissector 161\u003cbr\u003e12 The Second Wave 179\u003cbr\u003e13 \u003ci\u003eThe Lavender Hour\u003c\/i\u003e: Gender Freedom in the Air 197\u003cbr\u003e14 \u003ci\u003eLock-up \u003c\/i\u003e207\u003cbr\u003e15 We've Got to Get Rid of Nixon 213\u003cbr\u003e16 Rock and Roll Future 233\u003cbr\u003e17 Fifty Stories above Boston 257\u003cbr\u003e18 Nixon's Resignation and the End of the Revolution 265\u003cbr\u003e19 Lessons Learned 277\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 282\u003cbr\u003eIndex 285\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association, \u003cb\u003e2022. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A fascinating journey back in time when music and radio were at the center of a movement, and an inspiration for what media can be today. WBCN holds a special place in history.”\u003cbr\u003e—J\u003cb\u003eon Abbott, President and CEO, GBH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A team of young heroes, women and men, black and white, straight and gay, passionate, fearless and revolutionary, broadcast the music and ideas that shaped how every college kid thought, felt, and acted for the rest of our lives.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRob Barnett, former president, CBS radio programming; author of \u003ci\u003eNext Job, Best Job\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“As a budding broadcaster at powerhouse WBZ-AM in the early 1970s I fell for WBCN and told my boss, who said: ‘FM? It’ll never last.’ He was right in that there will never be another WBCN.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRobin Young, host of \u003ci\u003eHere and Now\u003c\/i\u003e (NPR)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Living in Boston in those years, and deeply immersed in activism, it was impossible to miss the crucial role of WBCN in creating an engaged activist community, and, not least, providing indispensable information and analysis.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT; Laureate Professor and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair, University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the New England Society Book Award in the Specialty category, 2022\u003c\/b\u003eBill Lichtenstein is a journalist and documentary producer. Winner of more than sixty major journalism awards, he has written for publications including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and produced and directed the feature-length documentary, \u003ci\u003eWBCN and the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. He worked at WBCN from 1971 to 1977, beginning as a teenage volunteer on the station’s “Listener Line.”","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302348050661,"sku":"NP9780262046251","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262046251.jpg?v=1767743651","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wbcn-and-the-american-revolution-isbn-9780262046251","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}