Abstract
This article argues that the creators of the first listener‐sponsored FM radio station in the United States altered the meaning of “highbrow”; culture. Since the late 19th century, serious music and literature had been defined as a narrow range of Eurocentric classics, to be reproduced only in their “pure”; forms. Torn by conflicting cultural objectives, the founders of KPFA in Berkeley redefined high art. Responsive to what they saw as “authentic”; folk music, blues, and jazz, they thought nothing of including Leadbelly and Liszt on the same afternoon schedule, an act of cultural blasphemy to an earlier generation.
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