ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the media history for contemporary ecomedia studies. It discusses the beefheart's music, a part of masculine rock scene and a culture of machismo that continues throughout the history of alternative radio. Countercultural radio emerged across Europe in the form of Free Radio. Melancholia leads to fatalism and the kind of green apocalypticism provides a joy for Beefheart's freedom. Human sovereignty brings freedom as a direct result that has alienated itself from nature. The chapter deals with the realization that questions the popular music and radio: the question of freedom and the question of community. It focuses on the study of Captain Beefheart and underground radio that relevants to the challenges faced by ecomedia studies. This chapter infers the contemporary ecomedia, especially networked and mobile media that unravel and address the contradictions work, nearly fifty years ago at the birth of the modern Green movement through the broadcast medium of radio.
