Resources for radio research

Within this bibliography are some resources and additional information that we have gathered in our research. There are articles, links to radio stations, archives from past works, and more.

Bills

• Radio Act of 1912

• Communications Act of 1934

• Telecommunications Act of 1996

• Local Community Radio Act  (LCRA) (2010)

• The Pirate Act (2020)

Articles

• Radio (Commercial) via Philadelphia Encyclopedia

• Félix Guattari and Radio Alice

• Skills for Revolutionary Survival: 5. Communications Equipment for Rebels

• Pirate radio station defies FCC, goes back on Phila. Airwaves

• “Radio Alice and Italy’s Movement of 1977: polyvocality, sonority and space”

• Radio by Tina Gianoulis

• It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech by Zeynep Tufekci

• REPORT ON PIRATE RADIO ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PREVENTING ILLEGAL RADIO ABUSE THROUGH ENFORCEMENT ACT (January 4, 2021)

• William Way Center Finding Aid: "Gaydreams" audio recordings, 1989-1995 : Ms.Coll.8

• ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries Finding Aid: to the IMRU Radio Sound Recordings and Administrative Records, 1970-2011 Coll2014.112

• FCC Policy Throughout the Years

• Exclusive: Radio Mutiny pirates speak out after one year of operation!

• How is the FCC cracking down on illegal radio?

• Why Philly has only one Low Power FM community radio station

Books

• Dunbar-Hester, Christina. Low Power to the People. (MIT Press) 2014

• Collins, Nicolas. Handmade Electronic Music. Routledge, 2014.

• Seizing the airwaves: a free radio handbook

Archived Audio (*some limited access or must be requested)

• LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! Episode 43: Pete Tridish, Kate Wendland Duncan of Radio Mutiny, Prometheus Radio Project, Rebellious Nursing, International Media Action

• Podcast #229 – Reading the PIRATE Act

• How is the FCC cracking down on illegal radio? 

• KRAB-FM Lesbian-Feminist Radio Program recordings, 1971-1982

• Interview: Lesbians with Shan Ottey

• Radio Survivor: Podcast #187 – Archiving LGBTQ Radio History

• Fruit Punch Collective Archive - Pacifica Radio Archives

Resources

• PhillyCAM, Philadelphia Community Access Media

• International Media Action

• Center for Media Justice

• Beehive Collective

• Media Mobilizing Project

• Born in Flames (1983) by Lizzie Borden (film on kanopy)

• William Way LGBT Community Center: Archives Collection

• http://www.flujos.org/

Stations (W represents East Coast and K is West Coast)

• WPRB 103.3FM

• WPEB 88.1FM

• WXPN 88.5 FM

• WBAI 99.5FM (Pacifica Radio in NYC, Free Speech Radio)

• KPFK 90.7FM 

• KPFA 94.1FM