[cma-l] New publication: Islands of Resistance. Pirate Radio in Canada

[Salvatore Scifo]

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 radio’s 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 radio’s 
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 Programmer’s 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.