Radio Free Culture

Series produced by WFMU

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Image by: Greg Harrison 

Radio Free Culture is a monthly program that explores digital culture.

Hosted by various WFMU personalities, Radio Free Culture is a monthly program that explores digital culture, net neutrality, piracy, the broadcast spectrum, digital rights, and archives and libraries in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.


11 Pieces

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Multi award-winning producer and sound artist Francesca Panetta joins Radio Free Culture to discuss Hackney Hear, the winner of this year's Prix Eu...

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 57:02
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WFMU's Radiovision Festival reminds us again of the many ways old fashioned radio is still powerful, connected, and intertwined with the dreams and...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:13
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Using live-steaming technology, Tim Pool involves his viewers in his reporting process live from the sites of protests around the world, and uses a...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:09
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Join Andrea and her Grandma Phyllis for Radio Passover. While the two munch matza and bitter herbs, they'll present a selection of stories about th...

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 58:27
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The title of this panel comes from the always provocative Neil Young but this is not another debate about the morality of piracy. Anna Troberg (Swe...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
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How are today's musicians earning money? Thanks to the Future of Music Coalition's pioneering Artist Revenue Streams project, we finally have some ...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:01:45
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Can Open Source Technology Save Music? A conversation with Jesse von Doom & Maggie Vail of CASH Music

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:28
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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 56:52
Caption: Casey Rae-Hunter, Credit: Image from sockmonkeysound.com
The Future of Music Coalition's Casey Rae joins the Free Music Archive's Jason Sigal and a panel of music bloggers to discuss the future of MP3 blogs.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: MP3 - The Meaning of a Format
WFMU's Benjamen Walker interviews author and academic Jonathan Sterne on the meaning of the MP3.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
Caption: Brewster Kahle at Free Bitflows Conference, Credit: http://future-nonstop.org
WFMU's Station Manager Ken Freedman interviews Brewster Kahle, Founder of Archive.org

  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:01