CPP Sideshow #125: Katherine Rye Jewell – Author of LIVE From The Underground – A History Of College Radio

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For well over a year before it came out, Jacques has been following on social media, the process and progress of author Katherine Rye Jewell while writing: LIVE From The Underground – A History Of College Radio.

As Katherine would unearth believe to be lost treasures (like CMJ charts, schools play list from 1978, articles in favor of censorship for a college radio station from the same colleges student new paper) she’d post these finds and allow you to ride shotgun through every step of the way.

Being a tiny world, Katherine is a professor at Fitchburg State … The same Fitchburg State (somehow) Jacques graduated from AND where he was a DJ on their station WXPL (which is where he met his bandmate/brother John. And either John or friend of podcast Professor Chris Cook brought Katherine to Jacques’ radar!)

This is a DEEP dive into the over-all history of college radio – how senate land grand acts of the 1930s… led to Pixies and Mission Of Burma becoming college music darlings despite EVERYTHING working against college radio from existing – unsupportive school administrations AND student organizations, record companies not seeing them as worth sending free records to … to Tipper Gore – Parent Music Council and the Batman-forsaken FCC!

GET THIS BOOK and get it on Audible too!

Follow Katherine on Twitter @Katisjewell,

Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey

Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber

Jacques on Twitter is @CarnivalPodcast and FB @JacquesLambert

Opening: Gomer by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years on Spotify)

Closing Song: Other Break by Beyond Id (from The Stovin Years on Spotify)