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Reality radio : telling true stories in sound / John Biewen, editor ; Alexa Dilworth, coeditor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Documentary arts and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, N.C.] : In association with the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, c2010.Description: xii, 208 p. : music ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780807833575 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807833576 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807871027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807871028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.446
LOC classification:
  • PN 1991.8 R288 2010
Contents:
Foreword / Rick Moody -- Introduction / John Biewen -- Are we on the air? / Chris Brookes -- That Jackie Kennedy moment / Scott Carrier -- Talking to strangers / The Kitchen Sisters -- No holes were drilled in the heads of animals in the making of this radio show / Jad Abumrad -- Harnessing luck as an industrial product / Ira Glass -- Covering home / Katie Davis -- What did she just say? / Damali Ayo -- Out there / Sherre DeLys -- Cigarettes and dance steps / Alan Hall -- Unreality radio / Natalie Kestecher -- Finding the poetry / Dmae Roberts -- Diaries and Detritus : one perfectionist's search for imperfection / Joe Richman -- Living history / Stephen Smith -- The voice and the place / Sandy Tolan -- Crossing borders / Maria Martin -- Adventurers in sound / Karen Michel -- Dressy girls / Lena Eckert-Erdheim -- Salt is flavor and other tips learned while cooking / Emily Botein -- Afterword : listen / Jay Allison.
Summary: Over the last few decades, the radio documentary has developed into a strikingly vibrant form of creative expression. This volume celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia. In these 19 essays, documentary makers tell relate how they make radio the way they do, and why. Includes essays from Ira Glass, the Kitchen Sisters, Rick Moody, and producer Joe Richman, among others
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Foreword / Rick Moody -- Introduction / John Biewen -- Are we on the air? / Chris Brookes -- That Jackie Kennedy moment / Scott Carrier -- Talking to strangers / The Kitchen Sisters -- No holes were drilled in the heads of animals in the making of this radio show / Jad Abumrad -- Harnessing luck as an industrial product / Ira Glass -- Covering home / Katie Davis -- What did she just say? / Damali Ayo -- Out there / Sherre DeLys -- Cigarettes and dance steps / Alan Hall -- Unreality radio / Natalie Kestecher -- Finding the poetry / Dmae Roberts -- Diaries and Detritus : one perfectionist's search for imperfection / Joe Richman -- Living history / Stephen Smith -- The voice and the place / Sandy Tolan -- Crossing borders / Maria Martin -- Adventurers in sound / Karen Michel -- Dressy girls / Lena Eckert-Erdheim -- Salt is flavor and other tips learned while cooking / Emily Botein -- Afterword : listen / Jay Allison.

Over the last few decades, the radio documentary has developed into a strikingly vibrant form of creative expression. This volume celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia. In these 19 essays, documentary makers tell relate how they make radio the way they do, and why. Includes essays from Ira Glass, the Kitchen Sisters, Rick Moody, and producer Joe Richman, among others

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