Angela Townsend, writing for The Smart Set, is a millennial who loves the music of her mother’s generation. In her youth, she doted on a radio station spinning the oldies (“favored by parents and Earth Science teachers . . . sappy static to my high school friends”) and its exuberantly goofy early morning DJ.
In college, she became a regular caller, “Angie from Vassar.” And then an intern: “I approached my anthropology professor with a proposal: a study in the power of local radio. Why did people call into dizzy jockeys with questions and answers? Why were disembodied voices an incarnation of comfort?” The prof “was all for it. ‘Call ’em. Set it up. You can make this work.’ ”
A mini-memoir that will make you smile – I’m all for that:
Me and Bobby Miller
(via http://artsjournal.com)
Letter V 