[ecrea] New publication: 'Sounds of Your Life: the history of Independent Radio in the UK', by Tony Stoller

>Sounds of Your Life, the history of Independent 
>Radio in the UK, written by Tony Stoller, is the 
>first comprehensive telling of the history of 
>the unique experiment of Independent Radio, 
>effectively from start to finish. Published on 
>17 May in the UK, it describes how independent 
>radio came about in the Seventies, its fortunes 
>and misfortunes in the succeeding two decades, 
>and how it was replaced by commercial radio around the end of the century.
>
>Sounds of Your Life is a comprehensive political 
>and administrative history. As well as being a 
>definitive media reference book, it is also 
>illustrates the wider changes across the whole 
>of society which accompanied the UK's shift from 
>a social to a market economy, and the failure of 
>the hopes of the liberal consensus of the post-war years.
>
>The book is in three main sections, which follow 
>an introduction reviewing the 50 years before 
>the arrival of this alternative radio service in 
>the UK. The first covers the design and 
>implementation of Independent Local Radio (ILR) 
>in the Seventies, including the political 
>debates, and the efforts of the pioneer radio 
>companies to launch a brand new medium. The 
>second describes how ILR fared in the Eighties, 
>as the independent approach became established, 
>and the shift in aspiration towards a more 
>market-based model following the pivotal 
>Heathrow Conference and the impact of the Death 
>on the Rock television programme on regulatory 
>structures. The third relates the developments 
>of the Nineties, including the arrival of 
>Independent National Radio, controversy over 
>licence awards, and the breaking of the mould of 
>independent radio as it was replaced by commercial radio.
>
>Within these sections, there are specialist 
>chapters on audience research, community radio, 
>music copyright and digital radio. A postscript 
>traces the final laying down of the aspirations 
>of independent, public service radio in the modern era of commercial radio.
>
>*****
>
>Sounds of Your Life is published by John Libbey 
>Publishing on 17 May 2010 at £22.50 (hardback). 
>It is available from bookshops or direct from 
>Marston Book Services Ltd, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SD, England.
>Tel (direct orders): +44 (0)1235 465500; Fax: 
>+44 (0)1235 465509; e-mail: (direct.orders /at/ marston.co.uk)
>
>*****
>
>Tony Stoller is a currently a visiting fellow at 
>Bournemouth Universitys Centre for Broadcasting 
>History Research. He was Chief Executive of The 
>Radio Authority from July 1995, until it was 
>replaced by Ofcom at the end of 2003. He helped 
>to set up the new regulator, as its External 
>Relations Director, before retiring at the end 
>of 2005. He was previously an official in the 
>Radio Division of the Independent Broadcasting 
>Authority, Director of the Association of 
>Independent Radio Contractors, and Managing 
>Director of Thames Valley Broadcasting Limited (Radio 210).
>
>Further information from: (tonystoller /at/ yahoo.co.uk)
>
>Book profile at http://www.johnlibbey.com/books_detail.php?area=med&ID=142
>
>*****
>
>TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
>Introduction
>
>
>Section I Prologue
>
>Chapter 1 The long and winding road 1898 ­ 1970s
>
>
>
>Section II Debate, design and implementation 1970 ­ 1979
>
>Chapter 2 Paving the way for ILR 1970 ­ July 1972
>
>Chapter 3 Making a start. August 1972 ­ October 1973
>
>Chapter 4 Turn your radio on. The first year of ILR
>
>Chapter 5 The pioneer years Summer 1974 ­ Summer 1976
>
>Chapter 6 Is there anybody there? Audience research
>
>Chapter 7 Now we are nineteen Autumn 1976 ­ 1979
>
>
>
>Section III The independent radio experiment 1980 ­ 1989
>
>Chapter 8 Victories and losses 1979 ­ 1985
>
>Chapter 9 Doing well by doing good. Secondary rental and programme sharing
>
>Chapter 10 London Heathrow Calling. The Heathrow Conference and its impact
>
>Chapter 11 Left of the dial. The failure of community radio: 1965 ­ 1989
>
>Chapter 12 Changing the guard 1986 ­ 1989
>
>Chapter 13 Copyright wars. The long battle over music copyright
>
>
>
>Section IV Victory of the commercial model 1990 ­ 2003
>
>Chapter 14 Shadow and substance 1990
>
>Chapter 15 Classic, Talk and Virgin Independent National Radio: 1991 ­ 1994
>
>Chapter 16 Glad confident morning. ILR 1991 ­ 1993
>
>Chapter 17 Awards and re-awards. Licensing in London and beyond: 1993 ­ 1994
>
>Chapter 18 High summer 1994 ­ 1996
>
>Chapter 19 Challenging the regulator 1994 ­ 2000
>
>Chapter 20 Radio by numbers. Digital radio
>
>Chapter 21 Things can only get better. 1997 and all that
>
>Chapter 22 Weddings and wind-ups 1998 ­ 2000
>
>Chapter 23 RSLs and Access Radio. The strange 
>triumph of the social engineers: 1990 ­ 2006
>
>Chapter 24 Breaking the mould 2000 ­ 2003
>
>
>
>Section V Postscripts
>
>Chapter 25 Epilogue
>
>Acknowledgements, sources and bibliography
>
>Annex A Radio advertising and sponsorship revenue 1972­2008
>
>Annex B Independent radio licences in issue 1972­2008
>
>Annex C Radio audiences 1972­2008
>

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