In this Book
- Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
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 nineteen essays, documentary artists 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.
Contributors:
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
Sandy Tolan
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 nineteen essays, documentary artists 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.
Contributors:
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
Sandy Tolan
Table of Contents
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- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-14
- ARE WE ON THE AIR?
- pp. 15-26
- THAT JACKIE KENNEDY MOMENT
- pp. 27-35
- COVERING HOME
- pp. 67-75
- WHAT DID SHE JUST SAY?
- pp. 76-85
- CIGARETTES AND DANCE STEPS
- pp. 96-107
- UNREALITY RADIO
- pp. 108-115
- FINDING THE POETRY
- pp. 116-127
- LIVING HISTORY
- pp. 135-146
- THE VOICE AND THE PLACE
- pp. 147-156
- CROSSING BORDERS
- pp. 157-164
- ADVENTURERS IN SOUND
- pp. 165-170
- DRESSY GIRLS
- pp. 171-175
- AFTERWORD: LISTEN
- pp. 183-196
- About the Contributors
- pp. 197-204
- Editor’s Note: Hearing the Documentaries
- pp. 205-206
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 207-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469604206
Related ISBN(s)
9780807833575, 9780807871027
MARC Record
OCLC
966768225
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No