New Book Details How WOXY-FM Bucked the Norms of the Day While Cultivating Community

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New Book Details How WOXY-FM Bucked the Norms of the Day While Cultivating Community

Besides being a remembrance and celebration of WOXY’s history, the book also is something more. It’s a thesis, in a way, that in its ownership, programming and outreach, the station was a role model for how to ethically seek independence in America today. According to [Robin] James’ research and remembrances, it requires creating a community, not rejecting one in order to go it alone. It also requires progressivism and development of support systems, not anti-community lonerism.

I’ve had The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence on pre-order since early February, and if anything this (p)review has me even more eager to have a copy in my hands. The May 11 book event in Cincinnati (free!) also looks great. (Hoping she might do one in Chicago, too.)

And can’t wait for this year’s return of the “Modern Rock 500” (previously).

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