Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties

by Michael C. Keith

During the fateful summer of 1966, a handful of restless and frustrated deejays in New York and San Francisco began to conceive of a whole new brand of radio, one which would lead to the reinvention of contemporary music programming. Gone were the screaming deejays, the two minute doowop hits, and the goofy jingles. In were the counterculture sounds and sentiments that had seldom, if ever, made it to commercial radio. This new and unorthodox form...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275952665
• ISBN13: 9780275952662
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"