Ripping the pith from the Peel: Institutional and Internet cultures of archiving pop music radio.
Although the influential BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel (1939-2004) broadcast on average three times a week for 37 years, until the last four years of his life only a small number of complete recordings of his programmes had been made and preserved by the BBC sound archives. This article seeks to explain...
| Published in: | Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 89 - 112 |
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Intellect Ltd.
Oct2012
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