RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue, 01. 01. 1988., стр. 172

Programs оп larger city stations might feature Sonny Воу Williamson playing electrified folk blues from the south to the Black community of Chicago on KFFN, Chicago (Harker , 1980) ог music from white folk singers sOch as Woođy Guthrie . Guthrie hosted a daily program on KFVD, Los Angeles , in 1937, in which he sang traditional, and later , non-traditional folk music . Later , he would host a folk music program on WNYC , New York (Yurchenco, 1970). Among his guests on the New York program was Jeanie Ritchie , a traditional singer and dulcimer player from Kentucky (Ritchie, 1975 ). However , community participation via radio music programs was almost always limited to music of a non-political nature . Guthrie's recollection of the typical censorship problems he encountered at KFVD is most graphic : Thg radio agent. . .gave us friendly talks about not singing апу song that took sides with anybođy , anywhere , оп апу fight, argument, iđea , or belief , from a religious , scientific , political, legal, or illegal point of view , nor from апу point of thought that would cause anybody , anywhere, to act, think , move or perform апу motion in апу direction , to agree or disagree with апу single worđ of апу single song ог conversation , joke , tall tale , that we perf ormed , dressed , or even thought about in the radio studios which was in a little blockhouse on a hill a mile or so away from the smells of Tijuana (Yurchenko, p. 83). Thus , the stations were typically more comfortable with community participation as long as participants entertained the audience with folk -oriented music , but they did not điscuss issues which might be concern to the community . In the late 19405, another citizen-participation idea came was being established in two separate realms . In the larger cities , radio stations unaffiliated with the major networks were selling blocks of program time to ethnic minorities , targeted primarily to recent European immigrants m their native languages , e.g . , German , Italian , Russian , etc . Such programs helped foster a sense of commumty , providing news from the old country and information about affairs of interest to the local commumty , as well as helping new immigrants adapt to their new social, political and economic milieu. At their peak just prior to World War Two , there were over one hundred such foreign language stations on the air in the ■United States (Barlow , 1978). Aften the Second World War , such stations went into declme . Managers , in search of a new ethnic audience , began to target

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