KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara

Of her next broadcast (March 7th), DJ Darla Bea says, “On this week’s edition of ‘Rock It Properly,’ grab your Blue Suede Shoes and do the Stray Cat Strut as we get a lesson in Rockabilly 101.

Local rocker, Christopher Story of Blazing Haley and Phantom Pomps will join me at the KCSB Studios for some local trivia. [The Phantom Pomps perform Monday, March 8th, at Muddy Waters -- 508 E. Haley -- with Agent Ribbons and The Raven V, starting at 8pm: an event presented by KCSB.]

Get ready to rock out!””

“Rock It Properly” airs alternating Sundays in the Winter from 8-10pm.

Prof. Dick Flacks, host of “Culture of Protest” writes: “Woody Guthrie wrote the song ‘This Land Is Your Land’ 70 years ago this week, so we’ll feature it on our next show, listening to many variations. But first we’ll talk with Kelly Burns, one of the organizers of tomorrow’s local demonstration in solidarity with nationwide local events in defense of education, organized by education unions and students.”

“Culture of Protest” airs Thursdays from 6-7pm on KCSB.

Starting Friday, February 26th, from 8-9am, KCSB-FM will begin weekly airings of a documentary series that originally premiered on the station in the mid-1980s, Don’t Bank on Amerika: The History of the Isla Vista Riots of 1970. Written and produced by Malcolm Gault-Williams, Don’t Bank on Amerika tells the comprehensive story of a turbulent and transformative period at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in its neighboring “college town,” Isla Vista. The series’ inaugural broadcast marks the fortieth anniversary of the torching of I.V.’s Bank of America branch, and will feature a new conversation with Gault-Williams after his original episode.

The bank burning became a symbol of opposition to the Vietnam War, but the spark for such unrest was more complex than any one cause. Don’t Bank on Amerika begins its analysis by recapping the events of 1968 and the takeover of North Hall by black students protesting racism at UCSB. Relying on extensive research (including actualities from the KCSB archives), Don’t Bank on Amerika highlights key incidents that roiled a once-sleepy community (including the forced shutdown of KCSB in April of 1970). Continue reading ‘KCSB Documentary “Don’t Bank on Amerika” To Air Fridays from 8-9am, Marking 40th Anniversary of I.V. Uprisings’

This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to Brian Reynolds Myers, contributing editor to the Atlantic and professor of international studies at Dongseo University in Busan, South Korea. In his new book, The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters, Myers examines North Korean propaganda meant for both internal and external consumption and through it constructs the closed country’s view of itself, its relationship to other countries and the Kim dynasty that has controlled it for 60 years. This approach reveals not a Stalinist ideology but one closer to Nazi Germany’s in its prioritization of the military and fixation on racial purity and a threatening outside world.

The Marketplace of Ideas airs every Thursday at noon.