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National Amateur Radio Day <\/strong><\/h1>\n

Radio perhaps does not have the ubiquity in people\u2019s lives as it did before. It was once the<\/em> premier mass medium for music as well as information, until the 1960s at least. Spotify playlists tend to rule the roost in cafes and pubs nowadays, with playlists often generated by algorithm. Now, television as well as micro news from social media is the predominant way we consume our news, fake or otherwise – whether we like it or not. Radio has been at the heart of musical innovation too, from the Radio Ballads made by the BBC (1958-1964),<\/a> to the over-layered noise experiments of John Cage\u2019s Radio Music (1956<\/a>), using transistor radios as instruments. In a similar spirit, Radiophrenia<\/a>, the Glasgow-based sound art and radio initiative of Timothea Armour, Mark Vernon and Stevie Jones, is currently broadcasting as part of its annual festival of left of the dial material.<\/p>\n

Pirate Radio<\/h2>\n

Pirate (i.e unofficial or unlicensed) radio was also key to certain periods of genre innovation and expansion in music \u2013 for example, Radio Luxembourg<\/a> and rock n roll in the late 60s; jungle, drum & bass etc were promoted by local London pirate stations at a key time for electronic music innovation in the late 80s\/early 90s. Student Radio stations have also attained legendary cult status – e.g WFMU in New Jersey, and KEXP in Washington State. WFMU is known for it\u2019s \u2018freeform radio\u2019 approach<\/a>, which prioritizes eclectic and unusual, non-commercial music as well as talk radio. KEXP, another station that has its roots in university education, was a major promoter of grunge music as it broke through to the mainstream in the early 1990s. To this day, it regularly hosts up and coming as well as more established bands<\/a> (these have attained a high level of popularity on YouTube). Some still broadcast on radio frequency, such as the college station in my home town of Galway (Flirt F.M<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Online Radio<\/h3>\n

However, there has been an explosion of online stations which do not broadcast on any radio frequency. Due to licensing costs as well as the limited bandwidth on radio frequency, many radio producers opt to stream on the internet. Close to home, our own Edinburgh Napier Radio Group (ENRG)<\/a> is an incredibly active radio station that broadcasts online only. This year, it celebrates 10 years of operation, the product of the innovative, productive tendencies of the staff and students that brought it into being. Their work spans a range of topics, from news to music; fittingly, it is a professional operation, with an \u2018all action\u2019 website that has an eye on the cutting edge of mass media today.<\/p>\n

By Kieran Curran<\/p>\n

Read more fascinating articles on the Library Blog Like: International Forest Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Amateur Radio Day Radio perhaps does not have the ubiquity in people\u2019s lives as it did before. It was once the premier mass medium for music as well as information, until the 1960s at least. Spotify playlists tend to rule the roost in cafes and pubs nowadays, with playlists often generated by algorithm. 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