~terry
Sat, Jun 29, 2002 (08:30)
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From the book "Border Radio"
In the Old West, it was not unusual for outlaws to make a break for the Mexican border. More than a few rebellious souls took refuge in her sleepy villages and desert oases. Decades after the last desperado splashed across the Rio Grande, a new breed of "badmen" crossed to the river's southern banks. The radio "outlaws" who built and operated the superpowered broadcasting stations just south of the border between 1930 and the mid-1980s stood in this tradition. The men and women who created border radio were frontiersmen of the ether, imaginative experimenters who came to la frontera seeking freedom from the restrictions of the American media establishment. By building huge transmitters and testing new and untried formats, these pioneers created a proving ground for many of the technical, legal, and programming aspects of today's broadcasting industry, and they managed to be quite entertaining as well.
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~terry
Sun, Jun 30, 2002 (08:02)
#1
A great resource, someday, will be:
http://www.borderradioshow.com hosted by Spring and created by Bob Nagy.
In the meantime, I googled this together:
http://www.spring.net/border
~terry
Sun, Jun 30, 2002 (11:05)
#2
Students Working on Projects Related to the US-Mexico Border Region
from http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/programs/border/directory/sociology.html
These two students provided research assistance for the "Radio Mercado" book chapter and received grants from the university for their participation. We have invited both of them and Alfonso Morales to participate in our discussion forum.
Kristen Burge--Ph.D. candidate, Philosophy at UW-Wisconsin
Norma Navarro--undergraduate, Sociology
Research Materials Related to the US-Mexico Border Region
Morales, Alfonso. 1997. Epistemic Reflections on the Informal Economy. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17(3/4):1�18. (Brief philosophical examination of distinct ways of knowing about the informal economy.) Morales developed a significant database on border radio and will apply for grant money to expand the database and develop the research to borderlands radio stations and Spanish-language radio.
~aa9il
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 (09:36)
#3
Hi all
I actually heard an incarnation of XERA while driving home late one night
- I only had AM in the truck and tuned around and heard the station playing
the rockabilly/olde country/gospel format. The studio was supposedly in
Dallas but the transmission originated in Mexico. I only heard the station
one time. Of course, the usual late night AM fare was the 'regular' Mexican
border stations with the dj's using an obnoxious echo and neat Conjunto music.
I understand just a little.... No comprede, just a riddle....
Also would pick up a station out of Nashville playing music from the Grand Ole
Opry, WLS out of Chicago, and a station out of Beaumont playing really fun
Cajun music.
73 de AA9IL
Mike