From July 24 to the library! the new book by Maureen Orrico:
Radio Free
free but really
free but really
journey through the history and stories of free radio, independent, 30 years after the birth and Radio Alice. The only existing map of all the free radio for us today.
Editions Malatemporare
price: 9 €
Prologue
was a cold November 20, 1975. Francisco Franco died in Madrid ended the last dictatorship in Western Europe. Juan Carlos of Bourbon rose to the throne, while in Italy the Communist Party obtained an historic success in regional elections. Worldwide
appeared the first signs of rapprochement between the two blocs of the Cold War protagonists: the Apollo space capsules (U.S.) and Soyuz (USSR) met in space. Meanwhile, the partisans Khner took power in Cambodia and Viet Cong occupied Saigon.
In America was founded on the rap and rock at the entrance attended an official voice and passionate visionary: Patty Smith went out with Horses and soon climbed the world rankings, winning millions of fans with his dry style, eclectic, intoxicated.
Montale won the Nobel for literature and November 2, sull'Idroscalo of Ostia, was found the lifeless body of Pier Paolo Pasolini: the poet died in the suburbs.
The '68 seemed far away. How many were with the body or the mind, in the heart of Paris in May, were probably changed. And even more had changed in Italy. To dream of a peaceful revolution with flowers instead of guns, now the disillusionment followed. But the anger remained. The ardor of the fight was changing with the end of '60 and, encouraged by the dream alive of another world without exploitation and without masters, was assuming, with the early seventies, more and more of the color and smell of blood lead and revolvers. It was now far away the image beat, then a rebellious generation of hippies, peace activist and visionary.
neighborhoods of Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence will now consume an invisible war, daily, continuously updated by a report of death and pain. These were the years of lead: the strategy of terror had hit the mark, entering the homes of Italians, among the show on Saturday evening, the elephant leg pants, the anarchists and the songwriters of Raffaella Carrà Tuca Tuca.
But in those years, that in the not too distant 1975, thousands of boys and girls went into kitchens and bedrooms of the Italians, animated by the search for a future of freedom and play.
were born free radios.
The new frontiers of world politics have imposed on the consciences, lives, the wishes of the peoples of this land ruled by a vile abominations of this neo-liberal globalization.
The 80s and 90s have introduced a devaluation of the collective and individual, in the name of progress apparent, based on the idea of \u200b\u200ba banal society of the spectacle built on an empty appearance, dominated only by the market and the laws demeaning the single thought.
bursts onto the screen, the disengagement of the younger generation without ideals have grown up with the myth of easy money and anarcho punk movement of individualism as the highest expression of culture and rebellion against Old - youthful. The
TV celebrates the exaltation of the moment. Watching in silence, addicted to anonymous construction projects, without life or nothing to say. To be announced.
And here is the Berlin Wall fell, the G8, WTO and, finally, Seattle. And then Genoa, general strikes, workers' struggles, against the FAO summit, the states general of the school, the struggles of migrants, the mobilizations against Cpt. Florence "open city" and the survivors of the Porto Marghera petrochemical seeking truth. The World Pride 2000 in Rome against the interference of a church that hates, sells and pity the poor live in luxury rooms bully gold, welcomed the remember that Christianity was.
arrive movement and its many colors paint the screen. And they come back to free radio, independent media, the newspapers of movement. Internet not only to Bill Gates, but eventually the global village of the free exchange of ideas, projects and desires. The web is flooded with a huge community of bloggers and finally becomes horizontal communication, free and truly democratic. You can access all the Internet becomes a powerful tool against the spread of cultures.
Indymedia, for one, has represented the break in the North American mediascape.
(...) Every experience related to the information independently, looking for a alternative music and quality Serbian him a greater desire: to change our lives because "we want bread, but we want roses too." This is the paradigm, the maximum suction, the rear of every battle fought for the job, your house for a decent wage for the recognition of a right to enjoy a better life. Communicating the passion, witness to the value of a battle that is the purpose of free radio sets each. Today more than ever, as in the web ether.
Camus said that "man in revolt is the man who is constantly moving against its existing condition."
(...) For years, he said that radio was doomed to die, overridden and canceled by Tv The facts have, however, proved the contrary.
Despite the commercial needs have leveled the standard against the most common musical tastes and too often are advocates of a system with no creativity and daring, but the radio today is witnessing an amazing renaissance.
ether, much of the TV, and perhaps equal only to the Internet, is becoming breeding ground for new ideas, a place to give, finally, a hankering for space experimentation.
(...) In a situation to say the least turbid, take an even more poignant the many activities of the many radio more or less close to the movement, now present ether and the Web.
In the book, a summary of the radio "free" currently existing in Italy. (...)
would probably miss some, but I do not want: the radios are like flowers, sometimes wither sooner than expected and then reborn to live elsewhere and maybe years, many years, marking the fates of those who saw them born, grow and sometimes die.
price: 9 €
Prologue
appeared the first signs of rapprochement between the two blocs of the Cold War protagonists: the Apollo space capsules (U.S.) and Soyuz (USSR) met in space. Meanwhile, the partisans Khner took power in Cambodia and Viet Cong occupied Saigon.
In America was founded on the rap and rock at the entrance attended an official voice and passionate visionary: Patty Smith went out with Horses and soon climbed the world rankings, winning millions of fans with his dry style, eclectic, intoxicated.
Montale won the Nobel for literature and November 2, sull'Idroscalo of Ostia, was found the lifeless body of Pier Paolo Pasolini: the poet died in the suburbs.
The '68 seemed far away. How many were with the body or the mind, in the heart of Paris in May, were probably changed. And even more had changed in Italy. To dream of a peaceful revolution with flowers instead of guns, now the disillusionment followed. But the anger remained. The ardor of the fight was changing with the end of '60 and, encouraged by the dream alive of another world without exploitation and without masters, was assuming, with the early seventies, more and more of the color and smell of blood lead and revolvers. It was now far away the image beat, then a rebellious generation of hippies, peace activist and visionary.
neighborhoods of Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence will now consume an invisible war, daily, continuously updated by a report of death and pain. These were the years of lead: the strategy of terror had hit the mark, entering the homes of Italians, among the show on Saturday evening, the elephant leg pants, the anarchists and the songwriters of Raffaella Carrà Tuca Tuca.
But in those years, that in the not too distant 1975, thousands of boys and girls went into kitchens and bedrooms of the Italians, animated by the search for a future of freedom and play.
were born free radios.
The revival of free radio
The new frontiers of world politics have imposed on the consciences, lives, the wishes of the peoples of this land ruled by a vile abominations of this neo-liberal globalization.
The 80s and 90s have introduced a devaluation of the collective and individual, in the name of progress apparent, based on the idea of \u200b\u200ba banal society of the spectacle built on an empty appearance, dominated only by the market and the laws demeaning the single thought.
bursts onto the screen, the disengagement of the younger generation without ideals have grown up with the myth of easy money and anarcho punk movement of individualism as the highest expression of culture and rebellion against Old - youthful. The
TV celebrates the exaltation of the moment. Watching in silence, addicted to anonymous construction projects, without life or nothing to say. To be announced.
And here is the Berlin Wall fell, the G8, WTO and, finally, Seattle. And then Genoa, general strikes, workers' struggles, against the FAO summit, the states general of the school, the struggles of migrants, the mobilizations against Cpt. Florence "open city" and the survivors of the Porto Marghera petrochemical seeking truth. The World Pride 2000 in Rome against the interference of a church that hates, sells and pity the poor live in luxury rooms bully gold, welcomed the remember that Christianity was.
arrive movement and its many colors paint the screen. And they come back to free radio, independent media, the newspapers of movement. Internet not only to Bill Gates, but eventually the global village of the free exchange of ideas, projects and desires. The web is flooded with a huge community of bloggers and finally becomes horizontal communication, free and truly democratic. You can access all the Internet becomes a powerful tool against the spread of cultures.
Indymedia, for one, has represented the break in the North American mediascape.
(...) Every experience related to the information independently, looking for a alternative music and quality Serbian him a greater desire: to change our lives because "we want bread, but we want roses too." This is the paradigm, the maximum suction, the rear of every battle fought for the job, your house for a decent wage for the recognition of a right to enjoy a better life. Communicating the passion, witness to the value of a battle that is the purpose of free radio sets each. Today more than ever, as in the web ether.
Camus said that "man in revolt is the man who is constantly moving against its existing condition."
(...) For years, he said that radio was doomed to die, overridden and canceled by Tv The facts have, however, proved the contrary.
Despite the commercial needs have leveled the standard against the most common musical tastes and too often are advocates of a system with no creativity and daring, but the radio today is witnessing an amazing renaissance.
ether, much of the TV, and perhaps equal only to the Internet, is becoming breeding ground for new ideas, a place to give, finally, a hankering for space experimentation.
(...) In a situation to say the least turbid, take an even more poignant the many activities of the many radio more or less close to the movement, now present ether and the Web.
In the book, a summary of the radio "free" currently existing in Italy. (...)
would probably miss some, but I do not want: the radios are like flowers, sometimes wither sooner than expected and then reborn to live elsewhere and maybe years, many years, marking the fates of those who saw them born, grow and sometimes die.
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