The American Revolution Documentary Collection, ca.1968-1974

Description:

The American Revolution collection includes hundreds of hours of recordings from WBCN during the period 1968-1974, along with posters, ephemera, videos, oral histories, and other associated materials. The audio and video content has been digitized by our partners, Lichtenstein Creative Media, and will be made available to the public through our digital repository. Materials are currently in the process of being transferred to UMass.

Repository/Collector:

UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives

Repository/Collector Type:

Personal and College or University

City:

Amherst

State:

Massachusetts

Country:

United States

Extent:

Hundreds of hours

Content types:

Sounds and Other

Historical relevance:

WBCN-FM, known as the American Revolution, was Boston's best-known alternative radio station in the late 1960s and 1970s. A sounding board for new music, the station and the concert venue known as the Boston Tea Party hosted the top rock, folk, and blues acts of the day, from the Velvet Underground to the Who, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin. The station also featured a vigorous news department led by the "News Dissector," Danny Schechter, that covered current events from the perspective of radical youth, and it hosted community programming that included one of the nation's first gay-themed shows, The Lavender Hour, and an early woman's show.

Condition note:

Playable with proper equipment

Notes:

UMass will care for digital copies plus, whenever available, the original analog materials, consisting mostly of half-inch reel-to-reel tapes plus some cassettes.