[ecrea] New publication: Islands of Resistance. Pirate Radio in Canada

>Source:
>http://www.newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554200504#
>
>Islands of Resistance.
>Pirate Radio in Canada
>edited by Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky, Marian van der Zon
>256 pages, Price: $21 CAD
>ISBN-10: 1554200504, ISBN-13: 9781554200504
>Date published: 14 May 2010
>
>While only recently have we heard the major 
>networks broadcast warnings of rising sea 
>levels, since radios invention certain 
>Canadians have been concerned by the 
>increasingly centralized medium and its 
>commercial flooding of the airwaves. 
>Occasionally alone, frequently in teams and 
>always illegally, these activists are islands of 
>resistance within theocean of homogenous 
>frequencies, pirating radio signals for 
>personal, political and artistic expression.
>
>In the first book published on the subject, 
>Islands of Resistance gives you a view from the 
>crowsnest of the phenomenon of pirate radio in 
>Canada. Here is a collection of seventeen 
>activist manifestos, artistic treatise of 
>intent, historical essays on the development of 
>radio and its regulatory bodies, sociological 
>examination of pirate radios application in new 
>social movements, and personal anecdotes from behind the eyepatch.
>
>Just as the new media ostenibly renders the old 
>obsolete, Islands of Resistance unveils the 
>existance of a thriving clandestine 
>counterculture. An invaluable addition to an 
>unscrutinized subject in Canadian media studies, 
>Islands of Resistance appeals to the anarchist, 
>anti-authoritarian impulses in all of us.
>
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>Table of Contents:
>
>List of Illustrations
>
>CHAPTER 1: Setting Sail: Navigating Pirate Radio 
>Waves in Canada by Ron Sakolsky, Marian van der Zon & Andrea Langlois
>CHAPTER 2: Latitudes of Rebellion: Free Radio in 
>an International Context by Stephen Dunifer
>CHAPTER 3: Resistance to Regulation Among Early 
>Canadian Broadcasters and Listeners by Anne MacLennan
>CHAPTER 4: Freedom Soundz: A Programmers 
>Journey Beyond Licenced Community Radio by Sheila Nopper
>CHAPTER 5: Secwepemc Radio: Reclamation of Our 
>Common Property by Neskie Manuel
>CHAPTER 6: Awakening the Voice of the Forest: 
>Radio Barriere Lake by Charles Mostoller
>CHAPTER 7: Squatting the Airwaves: Pirate Radio 
>as Anarchy in Action by Ron Sakolsky
>CHAPTER 8: Amplifying Resistance: Pirate Radio 
>as Protest Tactic by Andrea Langlois & Gretchen King
>CHAPTER 9: The Care and Feeding of Temporary 
>Autonomous Radio by Marian van der Zon
>CHAPTER 10: The Voyage of a Gender Pirate & Her Toolbox by Bobbi Kozinuk
>CHAPTER 11: Pirate Radio & Manoeuvre: Radical 
>Artistic Practices in Quebec by André Éric 
>Létourneau (translation by Clara Gabriel)
>CHAPTER 12: Touch That Dial: Creating Radio 
>Transcending the Regulatory Body by Christof Migone
>CHAPTER 13: The Art of Unstable Radio by Anna Friz
>CHAPTER 14: Repurposed and Reassembled: Waking Up the Radio by Kristen Roos
>CHAPTER 15: Radio Ballroom Halifax by Stephen 
>Kelly & Eleanor King (with Marian van der Zon)
>CHAPTER 16: The Power of Small: Integrating 
>Low-Power Radio and Sound Art by Kathy Kennedy
>CHAPTER 17: Voices in a Public Place: A 
>Docudrama in Seven Acts on/for Micro-Radio in Canada by Roger Farr
>
>Rip-Roaring Radical Radio References
>
>Bibliography
>
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>A Call-Out to Pirates of All Persuasions:
>
>5-7pm, Wednesday, May 26
>Insoumise Librairie Anarchiste
>2033 St. Laurent
>WWW.ISLANDSOFRESISTANCE.CA
>
>Sail over to L'Insoumise (Librairie Anarchiste) 
>on Wednesday May 26, 2010, 5-7 pm for a mutinous 
>celebration of the publication of Islands of 
>Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, a new 
>anthology edited by Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky and Marian van der Zon.
>

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