A Passion for Radio: Radio Waves and Community (1992)
by Bruce Girard

A classic community radio book, with stories from every corner of the globe. Nothing short of inspiring.

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Available in an online version at http://www.comunica.org/passion/

Original Sex and Broadcasting: A Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community (1975, 1988)
by Lorenzo Wilson Milam

Lorenzo Milam is a true visionary, and one of the founding fathers of American community radio. Sex and Broadcasting has for many years defined the unfettered spirit of community radio.

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Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (2001)
by Jesse Walker

An interesting history of radio in the U.S. from a Pacifica viewpoint. The first third of the book is fascinating recounting of the roots of the current American radio regualtory system, and the arly beginnings of the corporate radio systems. The balance of the volume is a detailed telling of the subsequent history of KRAB, Pacifica, and American community radio in general.

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Radio Rethink:
Art, Sound and Transmission (1994)

Edited by: Daina Augaitis and Dan Lander

The bible of the radio art movement in Canada, this book, and the accompanying compact disc defined a new kind of radio that was about making art, not just transmitting.

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Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People (2000)
by Valerie Alia

This book provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at the circumpolar North (Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and the Nordic/Saami nations). Radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites are all covered.

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Radiotext(e) (1993)

Neil Strauss & David Mandl, eds.

A collection of essays on radio from all over
including Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, French theorist Felix Guattari and Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Add to that writing by everyone from Bertolt Brecht to Hakim Bey to Negativland to Arnold Schoenberg to LaMonte Young to the U.S. Office of Censorship to the Emperor of Japan, and you have the most
mind-opening books ever seen on radio.

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