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Fowler, Gene, 1950-

Border radio : quacks, yodelers, pitchmen, psychics, and other amazing broadcasters of the American airwaves / Gene Fowler & Bill Crawford ; foreword by Wolfman Jack.

Rev. ed.

Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2002.

viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Traces the history of the border radio from the 1930s to the 1960s and describes how broadcasters pioneered direct sales advertising, used the radio as a political tool, popularized country music and rock, and introduced the electronic church.

Radio broadcasting -- Mexican-American Border Region.

Country music.

Crawford, Bill, 1955-

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and indexes.

Introduction: turn your radio on -- Del Rio's Dr. Brinkley: the big daddy of border radio -- Purple shadow on the Rio Grande: Norman Baker in Nuevo Laredo -- Border blaster at black rock -- Crazy -- Please pass the tamales, pappy 6 -- "Radio waves pay no attention to lines on a map" -- "Coast to coast, border to border ... your good neighbor along the way" -- Howlin' on a quarter million watts -- Blasting from Baja -- Radio station S-A-V-E-D -- That outlaw X -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- "Border radio" song lyrics from Nevada Slim.

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