Folklore: 1930's border radio

Subject: RE: Folklore: 1930's border radio
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 12:54 PM

I like to think of Fidel Castro, Diego Rivera, Tito Puente and other artists amd musicans and revolutionaries growing up with the Carters just like Johnny Cash and Jimmy Carter.............I'm putting this in a story I'm writng, if I can't find someting, I'll just have to make it all up...............
Thanks!

Subject: RE: Folklore: 1930's border radio
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 05:38 AM

You might want to take a look at Border Radio by Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford. Texas UP. 2002. I've never read it but it looks like a pretty reliable book.

Subject: RE: Folklore: 1930's border radio
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 03:30 AM

a few references for those interested in Border radio:

http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/fowbor

http://www.vvchc.net/histproj/radio-xera.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01251/cah-01251.html

http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/fowbor

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ebb01

Subject: Folklore: 1930's border radio
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 12:09 AM

I've been reading about XERF the monster station from Acuna, Mexico that sent the Carter Family and others into everybody's radio who had one from Texas to Alberta in the 1930's...............I'm interested in how it cut in the other direction. You could probably get that station from Mexico to the moutains of Venezuela and the whole Carribean, but I can't find any history...Who grew up on the Carter family on the radio in that region?................anybody got anything?
thanks
seth from olytown