Poetry FM American Poetry and Radio Counterculture |
|
| Author:
| Hollenbach, Lisa |
| Series title: | Contemp North American Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-891-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2023 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
|
Poetry FM is the first book to explore the dynamic relationship between post-1945 poetry and radio in the United States. Lisa Hollenbach traces the history of Pacifica Radio--founded in 1946, the nation's first listener-supported public radio network--through the 1970s: from the radical pacifists and poets who founded Pacifica after the war; to the San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York poets who helped define the countercultural sound of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI...
More Description Poetry FM is the first book to explore the dynamic relationship between post-1945 poetry and radio in the United States. Lisa Hollenbach traces the history of Pacifica Radio--founded in 1946, the nation's first listener-supported public radio network--through the 1970s: from the radical pacifists and poets who founded Pacifica after the war; to the San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York poets who helped define the countercultural sound of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI in the 1950s and 1960s; to the feminist poets and activists who seized Pacifica's frequencies in the 1970s.