The Academy of Broadcasting

The Academy of Broadcasting

by Dr. John Logan, Jr.
The Academy of Broadcasting

The Academy of Broadcasting

by Dr. John Logan, Jr.

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NTRODUCTION:
I saw it coming twenty years ago, this phenomenon they’re now calling “murder music.” A “new” kind of music starting to show up in my mail, and the “A&R” people and the promoters I was meeting with who saw this new thing called “rap” as the money-maker of the future. I listened to it -- that was my job -- and I was suddenly aware that this “new kind of music” had the possibility to do great damage to the people, especially the YOUNG PEOPLE, who would listen. To be honest, this “new music” had me very concerned.
I acted promptly and without hesitation: I set a policy for my radio station that made it clear that music that was blatantly obscene, that demeaned and insulted women, or that was openly violent in its lyrics, could not be played on the station where I worked at that time. I made national news with that announcement, but very few OTHER stations followed my lead. Sure, the FCC -- that’s the Federal Communications Commission -- had rules about what kind of language was “banned” from the airwaves, but those rules had been loosening up for quite a few years.
I saw this music as a real problem for the community then, and I am even more concerned now, for the lyrics keep getting more violent and more and more kids are listening to that music and taking inspiration from it. To do violence and, worse, to MURDER. To kill.
The headlines say it all these days: kids walking into their schools with machine guns (which they stolen from their absent parents, in many cases) and gunning down teachers and school kids. These are NOT urban crimes, though the homicide rate among teens in inner cities AND suburbs should have this country very worried about its future. These “school kid murders” are equal opportunity crimes: but in many, many cases it is “murder music” which is in the CD players of the perpetrators.
That’s why it’s called “murder music,” and we can SEE CLEARLY the damage that it has done to our community. “Rap” artists GUNNED DOWN in the streets... and young people who think it’s “cool” that a “homey” got “popped,” that one of their peers was shot dead. And all inspired by “murder music.”
Now, if you’re a parent, or a concerned member of the community... or if you’re just reading this because you’re interested in a career in radio... and if you don’t know what and “A&R” person is, or who promoters are and what they do, that’s a good reason for you to have this book. I’d like you to think of this book as “backstage in radio and television,” because unless people really understand how these BUSINESSES work, we will have “murder music” and worse in our society.
We could have situations as serious as what they had in Bosnia and in Kosovo and in some parts of Africa: radio stations that literally urged listeners to go out and KILL. Not just MUSIC with lyrics that glorify murder and death, but ANNOUNCERS who made it their cause to inspire massacres. And they got what they wanted. History WILL record massacres in all those places in numbers that of a kind we thought would have ended with the discovery of the Nazi killing camps.
But “holocausts” didn’t end, and now we AGAIN have huge numbers of murders... all because a “radio personality” decreed that today was the day to kill Croatians or Muslims or someone who belonged to a different tribe or community in Africa.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940011883583
Publisher: Logan Publishing
Publication date: 10/05/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 147
File size: 112 KB

About the Author

Dr. John C. "Turk" Logan, Jr. is a Forty one year veteran of Radio/TV Broadcasting. A recent Inductee into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio (9/09), Dr. Logan is retired as General Manager of WCSU-FM ("Your Urban/Jazz Connection"12/31/09) Central State Ohio. I am very proud to have created a successful format, Urban/Jazz 1986 c, and managed a great radio station for 24 years.

Dr. Logan has also taught as a Professor of Communications at the Nation's Oldest private HBCU, Wilberforce University. (1993 to 2010), He is President/CEO of Logan Communications/Publishing and Logan Entertainment, Inc. Logan Publishing has published the following books:

Rap Ritual & Reality: Violent Music Makes Violent Kids; The Reality of A Fantasy (an autobiography) and The Academy of Broadcasting.
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