New podcast: RADIOACTIVITY #5. The seminal Pirate Radio scene in London
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*Media studies expert Matthew Fuller* talks about the origins and legacy of
pirate radio culture in London, focusing on the fertile period of DIY
resurgence, when radio resumed a prominent role in a scene hungry for
alternative channels before the arrival of the internet.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/radioactivity-pirate-radio/capsula
Some thirty years after the first pirate radio broadcasts in the United
Kingdom by radio stations like Radio London and Radio Caroline, illegal
radio enjoyed a second golden age in the nineties. At the height of rave
culture, these clandestine stations emerged as the ideal communication tool
for party organisers, record labels, DJs, artists, and, of course,
listeners. Gone were the marine adventures of the radio pirates of the
sixties, who broadcast on medium wave from ships anchored near the coast,
taking advantage of a legal loophole to circumvent their total illegality.
In the nineties, the movement became strictly urban. An amateur,
affordable, and sufficiently slippery method for the daily dissemination of
new tracks, information, and dates and locations of upcoming raves.
Media studies expert Matthew Fuller talks about the origins and legacy of
pirate radio culture in London, focusing on this fertile period of DIY
resurgence, when radio resumed a prominent role in a scene hungry for
alternative channels before the arrival of the internet.
*Timeline*
*01:00* The pirate radio scene in London: an extremely rich and inventive
media ecology
*07:19* The components of the system: light weight, replaceable and modular
*08:58* The power of black communities in a racist society
You can find the complete series here: RADIOACTIVITY
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