Among the programs aired on Radio Studio Center - Consortium for Radio-Siciliano is "Sunday Culture", a program created by the special services of Radio and Media Division Two Erre Italy. "Sunday Culture" is a container all’interno del quale vi sono spazi dedicati all’informazione, all’approfondimento su temi di cultura, attualità, politica, costume, società e anche di musica. Gli interventi vengono settimanalmente realizzati dalla redazione giornalistica dell’Emittente e da soggetti esterni. Tra le rubriche più seguite del programma vi è quella dedicata ai libri. Recentemente, abbiamo avuto il piacere di recensire un libro che parla di radio libere, dal titolo “Via Etere” Radio libera, idea di libertà, di Paolo Lunghi. Oggi sul nostro Blog vogliamo pubblicarne il testo integrale, per dare l’opportunità ai nostri appassionati lettori di “saperne di più”... 
Ben found, today we discuss the book by Paul Long "terrestrial" radio free, idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom. Published by Ibiskos Ulivieri - The Frangipani - a book dedicated to those ... known unknown of the 70 and 30 years of free radio. A fascinating book that touches us closely, because many of us, started their radio experience thirty years ago, in 1977. The book is a sort of commentary on the radio, which combines socio-cultural and socio-economic aspects of a change of manners and of life in our Italy. From one of the hundreds of small radios that have sprung up and down Italy in the seventies, Paul Long traces the history not only a broadcaster, Radio Empoli, but a small cultural revolution. So begins the preface to his book, the Hon. Tana De Zulueta. One of the radios was a social upheaval which the protagonists were not fully conscious. They left, as narrated in the book, for fun, to find new ways to communicate, and have changed the world!
The experience of Paul Long was therefore the best way to tell ... conductor who had absolutely no experience, but some ideas, as he writes the same author, I had it. The emergence of new ways of doing politics, news of new experiences, and especially of new spaces of freedom. The experience of radio libere ha rappresentato un percorso alternativo per chi, magari, era stato tentato da strade più perigliose, dalla drog
a alla lotta armata. L’Etere, secondo gli antichi, è la parte più alta, pura e luminosa, dello spazio oltre il limite dell'atmosfera. Aristotele distinse l'Etere dall'aria ponendolo come quinto elemento, diverso dagli altri, eterno, immutabile, incorruttibile. Etere cosmico, ipotetica sostanza estremamente rarefatta, uniforme e imponderabile, presente in ogni parte dell'universo, attraverso il quale, si propagano le onde elettromagnetiche. Nel libro si parla della prima esperienza di radio libera. Fu realizzata nella nostra Sicilia da Danilo Dolci, che nel 1968 dopo il terremoto Belice, created just a free radio station which broadcast only a few hours, as he was immediately arrested, but those few hours were enough to draw a basic line for the beginning of radio. This experience in a historical period characterized not only by the difficult problems of the earthquake, but situations which in themselves do not contribute to the freedom of expression and communication, has been in our history a point of reference for the will and desire for change. What was significant and tragic at the same time, the experience of Peppino Impastato that Radio Aut, with his accusations and complaints
against the mafia, eventually killed. Because the reality, what matters here in Sicily will not change very easily, but need experience of freedom of thought and words, such as those that come from the few independent radio stations still in the area. Continue Long in his book "Way of Light" Radio free, idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom, past the age of spontaneity, some radios have been consolidated, others, many have disappeared, and with them, perhaps, part of the wind of freedom that had represented.
Regarding politics, the experience of free radio has not been understood and deeply appreciated. A small radio can be just the place for true respect and above all can be a base from which to account to its own territory election of the work in progress. But this does not happen.
From a purely commercial point of view, the radio was a major new advertising channel, accessible to all, small retailers, for retailers, small artisans, who thanks to local radio, they managed to have a serious position on the market, and to create and develop their business.
The 80's were characterized by an increased awareness that has led to the development of more professional radio. Unfortunately or fortunately, the radio began to become "serious" as long as this is the appropriate term. Who would have imagined that the industry would have seen many developments and changes and such!
The radio, however, had obviously left the pioneering aspect of the beginning, has undergone fundamental changes in social and cultural techniques to adapt to the changing nature of Italian culture and the market, although at an early period driven these changes, always represents a fundamental tool to make information, to understand changes in society, a thermometer to measure the air we breathe in the country.
Radio was also a tool for this, perhaps someone from a dangerous tool difficult to control, to inform and stimulate the brain to open, to inform that over half had a powerful and persuasive force, creating musical trends, Costume & of opinion. The radio, but more specifically the large number of radio, especially small radios scattered throughout the peninsula, could not be managed and controlled by a select few, so unmanageable and dangerous in a democracy is not fully mature. Few issuers offer a national character more powerful advantages in terms of control. Among the innovations of recent years, is just entering the field of major media groups, which control the majority of domestic issuers. This, on the one hand has led and will lead to greater competition among the majors, but for small radio, the face of pluralism will be pain.
the few independent radio stations has been touched and still touches, a daunting task: to be an antidote to the overwhelming approval and the media monopoly of RAI, Mediaset and other publishing groups in the national character. When most of the resources of the audiovisual sector are largely concentrated in the hands of only two contenders is the freedom to lose.
Talk radio may now seem obvious and probably not very interesting, a topic may not fit the times in a period like this with a strong technological development and multimediatico, based on the strong development of new media. The radio of the future does not use the airwaves, but the model that is turning the story: the Internet. Internet is not subject to any mandatory particularly restrictive law in order to transmit, so that the radios are coming online in this new century, I am really really free.
The story always comes back, the four friends of Radio Empoli, or those four friends of Radio Studio Center, to name another, who have given birth and were the precursors and protagonists of a historical period and a fundamental change for communication, information, culture, way of doing politics, for the very idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom in Italy, perhaps there are more, or at least maybe there are the conditions and spirit of the age of eighteen, but how it feels long, this witness may switch to other young people thanks to the possibility that new technologies offer, be inspired to give life to another sea change in the history of this country.
It 'important that the younger generation - not that we no longer can, God forbid - to commit to this, the culture and all that information does raise questions and stimulate to find solutions, is a powerful, perhaps the most powerful tool for the maintenance and consolidation of a democratic system based on their individual liberty to be free that really needs to communicate, be informed, express opinions, to evaluate and decide.
Article 21 of the Constitution of our country is a splendid example of freedom: “Tutti hanno diritto di manifestare liberamente il proprio pensiero con la parola, lo scritto e ogni altro mezzo di diffusione…” Noi delle radio abbiamo creduto e creato molto nella libertà, questo di certo rimarrà nella storia d'Italia, e siccome è stato fatto, qualcuno può farlo di nuovo!
Di Paolo Lunghi “Via Etere” Radio libera, idea di libertà. Edito da Ibiskos Ulivieri - Il Frangipane un libro sicuramente da
leggere! Grazie per l’ascolto e al prossimo appuntamento con I libri di “Domenica Cultura”. Settimanale di informazione e approfondimento su temi culturali, d’attualità, politica, costume, società e musica, To find out more and more ... and better! Exclusive to Radio Studio Center - Consortium for Radio-Siciliano. (Review by Salvatore Rallo)
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