- Ron Sakolsky
Ron Sakolsky is a scholar covering the intersection of
music ,revolution andradio . As of 2005, Sakolsky is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at theUniversity of Illinois at Springfield , previously known as "Sangamon State University". For more than twenty years he has taught at this University on music and social justice issues, originally attracted by its innovative and radical courses. In 1995 he was one of two faculty members arrested while distributing leaflets objecting to the destruction of the faculty union, in the takeover of the University by the University of Illinois in a restructuring of higher education. [ [http://www.dennisfox.net/uis/state-agent.html From "Radical University" to Handmaiden of the Corporate State ] ]Ron Sakolsky was an active participant in the first International
Dub poetry Festival in 1993 and maintains an active interest in this field, as well as generally inworld music . He is frequently involved in organising activities and events onMay Day .He is a frequent broadcaster and guest on community and
pirate radio shows, and contributes music reviews, essays and criticism to many music periodicals such as "The Beat", a magazine devoted to the music of theAfrican diaspora , "LiP Magazine ", and to variousanarchist publications including "Fifth Estate", "", "Social Anarchism", "Green Anarchy " andEnDehors . He is renowned for authoring books and internet texts on pirate and community radio, which have been a significant contribution to the pirate radio and micro-broadcasting movement.References
*"Gone To Croatan: Origins of North American Drop-Out Culture" (ed) (1993) ISBN 0-936756-92-6
*"Sounding off: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution" (ed) (1995)
*"Seizing the Airwaves; Free Radio Handbook" (ed)(1998) ISBN 1-873176-99-6
*"Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States" (ed) (2002) ISBN 1-57027-122-4
*"Creating Anarchy" (2005)ISBN 0-9772258-0-1External links
* Seizing the Airwaves [http://www.infoshop.org/texts/seizing/toc.html] - a free radio handbook by Ron Sakolsky and Stephen Dunifer
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