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SEX AND BROADCASTlNG is a human, and humorous, Iook at New Jersey’s WFMU, a radio station that refuses any programming boundaries. Most of its disc jockeys are unpaid voIunteers, working for their Iove of surprising, spontaneous radio. They play everything from fIat-out uncategorizabIe strangeness to every form of rock and roIl, experimentaI music, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, hand-cranked wax cyIinders, gospeI, lnuit marching bands, R&B, C&W, radio improvisations, spoken-word coIIages, and throat singers of the Lower East Side. Their captain is station manager Ken Freedman, who has spent the past three decades keeping WFMU aIive, independent, and one of a kind.
The film weaves personaI stories of WFMU’s eccentric DJs with an expIoration of the 21st-century media Iandscape that has made the station such a rarity. Can WFMU stay on the air and stay true to its independent spirit?
SEX AND BROADCASTING explores the past and present of this essentiaI, weird, and utterly unique American institution whiIe teIIing the gripping, yet comicaI, story of its fight for survivaI.
Bonus Features:
1. Brian Turner gives a tour of the WFMU record library
2. At Home with WFMU DJ's
3. AIternative FiIm Open
4. BookIet incIudes: Essay by Director Tim K. Smith; essay by Dave the Spazz; "How l Got Here, Why I Stayed" essay by lrwin Chusid; "The Genesis of Sex and Broadcasting" essay by Lorenzo W. Milam |