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The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.

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This book adds immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of the power the aural medium possesses to mirror and shape culture. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Wolfman Jack
  • Introduction: Turn Your Radio On
  • 1. Del Rio's Dr. Brinkley: The Big Daddy of Border Radio
  • 2. Purple Shadow on the Rio Grande: Norman Baker in Nuevo Laredo
  • 3. Border Blaster at Black Rock
  • 4. Crazy
  • 5. Please Pass the Tamales, Pappy
  • 6. "Radio Waves Pay No Attention to Lines on a Map"
  • 7. "Coast to Coast, Border to Border . . . Your Good Neighbor along the Way"
  • 8. Howlin' on a Quarter Million Watts
  • 9. Blasting from Baja
  • 10. Radio Station S-A-V-E-D
  • 11. That Outlaw X
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • "Border Radio" song lyrics from Nevada Slim
  • About the Authors

Border Radio Quacks Yodelers Pitchmen Psychics

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    A Paperback / softback by Gene Fowler, Bill Crawford

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2002
      ISBN13: 9780292725355, 978-0292725355
      ISBN10: 0292725353

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.

      Trade Review
      This book adds immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of the power the aural medium possesses to mirror and shape culture. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Wolfman Jack
      • Introduction: Turn Your Radio On
      • 1. Del Rio's Dr. Brinkley: The Big Daddy of Border Radio
      • 2. Purple Shadow on the Rio Grande: Norman Baker in Nuevo Laredo
      • 3. Border Blaster at Black Rock
      • 4. Crazy
      • 5. Please Pass the Tamales, Pappy
      • 6. "Radio Waves Pay No Attention to Lines on a Map"
      • 7. "Coast to Coast, Border to Border . . . Your Good Neighbor along the Way"
      • 8. Howlin' on a Quarter Million Watts
      • 9. Blasting from Baja
      • 10. Radio Station S-A-V-E-D
      • 11. That Outlaw X
      • Selected Bibliography
      • Index
      • "Border Radio" song lyrics from Nevada Slim
      • About the Authors

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