CONTENTS Preface Introduction: Shifting Voices Part I. "I'se Regusted": Blackface Radio 1. From the Jazz Age to Jim Crow 2. The Controversial Phenomenon of Amos 'n' Andy Part II. "New World a-Coming": Black Pride Radio 3. Brown Bombers and Black Radio Pioneers 4. "Destination Freedom" Part III. "Rappin' the Mike": Black Appeal Radio 5. Buying Time and Making Rhyme 6. The Rise of Black Appeal Radio 7. Spin Doctors of the Postwar Era Part IV. "Rockin' the Pot": Black Counterfeit Radio 8. The White DJ Crossover Crusade 9. The Rock-and-Roll Rebels Part V. "Burn Baby Burn": Black Power Radio 10. "A Change Is Gonna Come" 11. Microphones in the Riot Zones 12. The FM Frontier Part VI. "Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss": Black-Owned Radio 13. Bridging the Ownership Gap 14. Entrepreneurs with Attitude 15. Blackgrounding Public Radio Afterword: Talking Drums Notes Index
The whole story of the making of Black radio
William Barlow is Professor, Department of Radio, Television, and Film, at Howard University and the author of "Looking Up at Down": The Emergence of Blues Culture (Temple).
"The history of black radio, like the history of many black enterprises, starts with a fight simply to exist. That story takes up a good part of Voice Over, an extensive history that makes it clear this subject could fill a half-dozen books...Happily, nothing serves that kind of discussion as well as a sturdy foundation of history, and Voice Over tells its part of the story well." --New York Daily News "Media and cultural history at its best. Voice Over offers riveting accounts of the innovations, struggles, failures, and triumphs of black radio from its beginnings to the present. Barlow's unique perspective gives its personalities and institutions long-overdue credit for their pivotal role in changing the soundscape of American music and culture." --Herman Gray, author of Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for "Blackness" "In the first book-length study of Pacifica Radio, Lasar recounts the history of 'our nation's only independent nonprofit [radio] network.' ...Lasar concentrates on the conflicted early years of Pacifica's development...useful as a behind-the-scenes account of Pacifica's growing pains." --Publishers Weekly
"The history of black radio, like the history of many black enterprises, starts with a fight simply to exist. That story takes up a good part of Voice Over, an extensive history that makes it clear this subject could fill a half-dozen books...Happily, nothing serves that kind of discussion as well as a sturdy foundation of history, and Voice Over tells its part of the story well." --New York Daily News "Media and cultural history at its best. Voice Over offers riveting accounts of the innovations, struggles, failures, and triumphs of black radio from its beginnings to the present. Barlow's unique perspective gives its personalities and institutions long-overdue credit for their pivotal role in changing the soundscape of American music and culture." --Herman Gray, author of Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for "Blackness" "In the first book-length study of Pacifica Radio, Lasar recounts the history of 'our nation's only independent nonprofit [radio] network.' ...Lasar concentrates on the conflicted early years of Pacifica's development...useful as a behind-the-scenes account of Pacifica's growing pains." --Publishers Weekly
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