Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound (Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University) - Hardcover

Reality Radio; Telling True Stories in Sound

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. First printing [stated]. xii, [2], 208, [2] pages. Published in Association with The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. This is one of the Documentary Arts and Culture series. Afterword by Joy Allison. About the Contributors. John Biewen directs the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies, where he teaches and produces documentary work for NPR, the BBC World Service, and other audiences. He reported for Minnesota Public Radio, covered the Rocky Mountain West for NPR News, and spent eight years as a correspondent with American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media. Projects at CDS have included Five Farms: Stories of American Farm Families; Travels with Mike, revisiting John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley journey; and Little War on the Prairie, with This American Life, exploring the forgotten story of the U.S.-Dakota War. His work has won honors that include two Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Awards for Outstanding Coverage of the Disadvantaged, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, and the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Radio Impact Award. At CDS, Biewen teaches undergraduate and graduate students as well as continuing education students in CDS's Certificate in Documentary Studies program. Over the last few decades, the radio documentary has developed into a strikingly vibrant form of creative expression. Millions of listeners hear arresting, intimate storytelling from an ever-widening array of producers on programs including This American Life, StoryCorps, and Radio Lab; online through such sites as Transom, the Public Radio Exchange, Hearing Voices, and Soundprint; and through a growing collection of podcasts.Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In these twenty essays, documentary makers tell-and demonstrate, through stories and transcripts-how they make radio the way they do, and why.Whether the contributors to the volume call themselves journalists, storytellers, even audio artists-and although their essays are just as diverse in content and approach-all use sound to tell true stories, artfully.With essays by Jad Abumrad, Jay Allison, damali ayo, John Biewen, Emily Botein, Chris Brookes, Scott Carrier, Katie Davis, Sherre DeLys, Lena Eckert-Erdheim, Ira Glass, Alan Hall, Natalie Kestecher, The Kitchen Sisters, Maria Martin, Karen Michel, Rick Moody, Joe Richman, Dmae Roberts, Stephen Smith, and Sandy TolanJohn Biewen is audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where he teaches and produces documentary work for NPR, PRI, American Public Media, and other public radio audiences. Alexa Dilworth is publishing director at the Center for Documentary Studies. Artikel-Nr. 72417

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