“Host of the Week” is a new series featuring WRUU hosts with interviews written by Jim Morekis of Connect Savannah. Not to be missed! 07/30/2020.

This week’s Spotlight: Emanuela Curtale. “Community radio is a ‘passion project”. story written by Jim Morekis of : Connect Savannah 

In college I was a student DJ for WPCZ in North Georgia. I’ve always loved radio, and wanted to continue being part of it once I moved to Savannah.Savannah’s nonprofit community radio station and written by Jim Morekis of Connect Savannah.

My first show, Shadowlines, was an exploration of music from the 1980s. I started with post-punk and new wave, eventually delving into 80s experimental music—DIY, noise, early industrial. The goal was to explore the decade’s darker, more political underbelly, playing artists who rejected and deconstructed mainstream genres and notions of music production.

At the same time, following artists like Alexander Tucker, and radio shows like Psych Out on WXNA, I realized there was a very similar spirit of experimentation and reinvention in contemporary psychedelic folk.

I decided to put Shadowlines on hiatus until the fall, and in June I started Strange Folk, Thursdays at 5 pm. While the show revolves predominantly around folk and psychedelic music, from the 60s to today, I’d like to explore the fluidity of those genres. My approach to curating a radio show, in …

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