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11 Jul 13 - 12:09 AM (#3536137) Subject: Folklore: 1930's border radio From: GUEST 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 |
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11 Jul 13 - 03:30 AM (#3536166) Subject: RE: Folklore: 1930's border radio From: Thomas Stern 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 |
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11 Jul 13 - 05:38 AM (#3536187) Subject: RE: Folklore: 1930's border radio From: GUEST,Fred McCormick 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. |
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11 Jul 13 - 12:54 PM (#3536368) Subject: RE: Folklore: 1930's border radio From: GUEST 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! |