Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio,
highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with
local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners
have expanded stations from campus borders to sur-rounding musical and
cultural communities by acquiring FM licenses and establishing
community-based mandates.
The culture of a campus station extends beyond its studio and into the
wider community where it is connected to the local music scene within
its broadcast range. The book examines campus stations and local music
in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Sackville, NB, and highlights the ways that
campus stations--through music-based programming, their operational
practices, and the culture under which they operate--produce alternative
methods and values for circulating local and independent Canadian
artists at a time when ubiquitous commercial media outlets do exactly
the opposite.
Music in Range sheds light on a radio sector that is an integral
component of Canada's musical and cultural fabric and positions campus
radio as a worthy site of attention at a time when connectivity and
sharing between musicians, music fans, and cultural intermediaries are
increasingly shaping our experience of music, radio, and sound.