Research Catalog

Title

Reality radio : telling true stories in sound / edited by John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth.

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, N.C.] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biewen, John
• Dilworth, Alexa

Description

xiv, 250 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This new revised and expanded edition of 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. With a new foreword and five new essays, this book takes stock of the transformations in radio documentary since the publication of the first edition: the ascendance of the podcast; greater cultural, racial, and topical variety; and the changing economics of radio itself"--

Series Statement

Documentary arts and culture

Uniform Title

Documentary arts and culture.

Subjects

• Documentary radio programs
• Community radio
• Documentary radio programs > Production and direction

Contents

Foreword / Starlee Kine -- Introduction / John Biewen -- Are we on the air? / Chris Brookes -- That Jackie Kennedy moment / Scott Carrier -- Talking to strangers / The Kitchen Sisters -- Variations in tape use and the position of the narrator: Alix Spiegel's practical guide to different radio techniques / Alix Spiegel -- No holes were drilled in the heads of animals / Jad Abumrad -- Harnessing luck as an industrial product / Ira Glass -- One story, week by week: an interview with Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder -- Story time at the Azteca Boxing Club / Daniel Alarcón -- 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 beats / Glynn Washington -- Finding the poetry / Dmae Roberts -- Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear / Dave Isay -- 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 -- Salt is flavor and other tips learned while cooking / Emily Botein -- Afterword: listen / Jay Allison.

Call Number

MWGD 17-1696

ISBN

• 9781469633138
• 1469633132

LCCN

2016049006

OCLC

961358014

Title

Reality radio : telling true stories in sound / edited by John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, N.C.] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, [2017]

Edition

Second edition, revised and expanded.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Documentary arts and culture

Documentary arts and culture.

Added Author

Biewen, John, editor.

Dilworth, Alexa, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGD 17-1696