[cr-india] A Passion for Radio - Radio Waves and Community / Radioapasionados: Experiencias de la radio comunitaria en el mundo

[George Lessard]

A Passion for Radio



Cover illustration by permission - Michel Granger



The electronic edition of:

A Passion for Radio - Radio Waves and Community

Edited by Bruce Girard

View table of contents and download the book
<http://comunica.org/passion/contents.htm>

Written by people actively – and passionately – involved in the medium,
this book presents twenty-one alternative radio  experiences from
countries on every continent of the globe.

>From the El Salvador guerrilla-operated Radio Venceremos to the
native-owned Wawatay Radio Network in Northern Canada, 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.


The stories in this book are both moving and inspiring / Media Development


Some will find the stories disturbing, but all will learn of the power of
the medium / Monitoring Times


This impressive book is an exciting window into the increasingly diffuse
world of participatory media / Media Information Australia

Among the stories told in the book are: Radio Echo of Moscow and the
August 1991 coup d'état; two women's radio projects – in Peru and the
Philippines: how indigenous people's radio in Canada and Mexico strengthen
their communities: the Marconi Radio Taster's Café 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 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 Salvadoran
guerrilla station Radio Venceremos in a major rebel offensive. The
electronic edition also includes a new chapter about Radio Chaguarurco, a
station serving rural communities in Ecuador.

First published in 1992, this book provides a fascinating glimpse of
community radio 10 years ago, and a reminder of how much has changed, and
how much has not


The book is also available in Spanish as
Radioapasionados: Experiencias de la radio comunitaria en el mundo.
http://comunica.org/apasionados/

It is also available on CD Rom. Send email to passionCD at comunica.org for
details.

A Passion for Radio: Radio Waves and Community
Edited by Bruce Girard
Electronic Edition Copyright © 2001 Bruce Girard
ISBN 90-5638-0834
185 pages

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