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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Radio
Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio,
highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship
with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio
practitioners have expanded stations from campus borders to
sur-rounding musical and cultural communities by acquiring FM
licenses and establishing community-based mandates. The culture of
a campus station extends beyond its studio and into the wider
community where it is connected to the local music scene within its
broadcast range. The book examines campus stations and local music
in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Sackville, NB, and highlights the ways
that campus stations - through music-based programming, their
operational practices, and the culture under which they operate -
produce alternative methods and values for circulating local and
independent Canadian artists at a time when ubiquitous commercial
media outlets do exactly the opposite. Music in Range sheds light
on a radio sector that is an integral component of Canada's musical
and cultural fabric and positions campus radio as a worthy site of
attention at a time when connectivity and sharing between
musicians, music fans, and cultural intermediaries are increasingly
shaping our experience of music, radio, and sound.
Soon after Duffy's Tavern premiered over the radio in 1941,
Hollywood celebrities flocked to the microphone for a guest
appearance and accepted what was rarely heard of in network
broadcasting - celebrities were roasted in the form of insults that
were praised by critics and raved by radio listeners. Duffy's
Tavern was so popular it helped spawn a hit song, "Leave Us Face
It," an attempted newspaper comic strip, a number of premiums and a
U.S.O. Tour. Convicts at San Quentin voted it their favorite radio
program. This book (700 plus pages) documents the entire history of
the radio program, the 1945 motion-picture, the short-lived
television program, the lawsuits, Ed Gardner's personal life,
contract negotiations and much more
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Shrinkage
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Bryan Bishop
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In his alternately heart - breaking and hysterical New York Times
bestselling memoir, Bishop shares the surreal experiences of
writing his will with the bravado of a pulp novelist, taking chemo
in a strip club, and (technically) the closest he ever got to
achieving his lifelong dream of a threesome - when a physical
therapist had to show his wife to bathe him in the shower during
his weakened state. Whether recounting his search for the most
aggressive form of treatment, how radiation treatment jeopardized
his ability to (literally) walk down the aisle or even smile for
his wedding photos, or recalling the time his wife inadvertently
drugged him in a pool in Maui, Bishop's inimitable voice radiates
through his story. Shrinkage reveals the resilience of the human
spirit - and the power of laughter - during even the darkest times.
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