Border Radio Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves

Name: Border Radio Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
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ISBN: 9780292725386

ISBN-10: 0292725388

ISBN-13: 9780292725386

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Gene Fowler, Bill Crawford, Jack Wolfman, Gene Fowler

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This title traces the eventful history of border radio from its founding in the 1930s by J.R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/15/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 371
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Gene Fowler is a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), serving in St. Louis, MO. He has a Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary and writes about the ministry of care in the congregational setting. In addition to writing about caring for the bereaved, Dr. Fowler is exploring the relationship between congregational transformation and the ministry of care. He also is working on congregational health and illness during this era of Protestant decline in the United States.



Foreword



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



"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


About the Authors