Radio Is A Foreign Country

Radio from elsewhere

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Languages

English

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Country

United States

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Genres

World Music, Folk, Ethnic +6

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Frequency

Online

📖 About

Radio Is A Foreign Country is a listener-supported, not-for-profit online radio platform and mixtape series based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The station explores obscure and fascinating sounds from around the world, with programming built around cut-ups of international AM, FM and shortwave radio broadcasts, field recordings, ethnographic film and audio material, vintage records and cassettes, regional folk and pop music, and unusual digital ephemera. Its human-curated programming focuses on sounds and musical traditions that are often overlooked by mainstream commercial radio and offers listeners an unconventional journey through forgotten, remote and culturally distinctive recordings from around the globe. Radio Is A Foreign Country operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and its mission is to explore forgotten and new ways of making radio while facilitating greater access to sounds and music that are not sufficiently documented by industrial music curation.

📋 Details

mission:To explore forgotten and new ways of making radio and facilitate greater access and exposure to sounds and music not sufficiently documented by commercial and industrial music curation.

audience:Listeners interested in world music, obscure recordings, cultural discovery, experimental radio, ethnomusicology, field recordings and unconventional internet radio.

music focus:Obscure regional folk music, global pop, traditional music, experimental sounds, rare recordings and culturally distinctive music from around the world.

broadcast type:Online / Internet Radio

station format:Human-curated global music discovery and experimental mixtape radio

online presence:Official station website with live radio, transmission log, chat, email list and listener information.

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location context:New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

organization type:501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

programming focus:International AM, FM and shortwave radio broadcasts, obscure regional folk and pop music, field recordings, ethnographic recordings, vintage records, cassette recordings, archival material and digital ephemera.