Lost sound : the forgotten art of radio storytelling / Jeff Porter.

From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Acoustic drift: radio and the literary imagination
  • Prestige radio: the Columbia workshop and the poetics of sound
  • Mercury rising: Orson Welles and the master's voice
  • You are there: Edward R. Murrow and the proximity effect
  • The screaming woman
  • The museum of jurassic radio: sonic excess in Dylan Thomas and Samuel Beckett
  • Radio as music: Glenn Gould's contrapuntal sound
  • All things reconsidered: the promise of NPR.