{"product_id":"bootlegging-the-airwaves-9780252087691","title":"Bootlegging the Airwaves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow fan passion and technology merged into a new subculture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eleanor Patterson’s fascinating cultural history explores the distribution of radio and TV tapes from the 1960s through the 1980s. Looking at bootlegging against the backdrop of mass media’s formative years, Patterson delves into some of the major subcultures of the era. Old-time radio aficionados felt the impact of inexpensive audio recording equipment and the controversies surrounding programs like \u003ci\u003eAmos ‘n’ Andy\u003c\/i\u003e. Bootlegging communities devoted to buddy cop TV shows like \u003ci\u003eStarsky and Hutch\u003c\/i\u003e allowed women to articulate female pleasure and sexuality while \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e videos in Australia inspired a grassroots subculture built around community viewings of episo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A highly valuable contribution to media and cultural history. Patterson goes in-depth about important and eclectic bootlegging practices, and in particular highlights how people have utilized these technologies and systems to generate their own cultures around the objects of their fandom and interests.”--Derek Kompare, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMaking Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction    Hacking Broadcast History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Homemade Entertainment: The Prehistory of Bootlegging Radio \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hello Again: The Old-time Radio Informal Economy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Freeze Framing Queerness: Tape Trading in Buddy Cop Fan Cultures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e We Had to Do It the Hard Way: Bootlegging \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e in Australia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Enough of that Garbage: \u003ci\u003eWrestling Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and the Intelligent Wrestling Fan Community \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Conclusion      Bootlegging After the Airwaves\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400526733655,"sku":"9780252087691","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252087691.jpg?v=1730470898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bootlegging-the-airwaves-9780252087691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}