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Laddar... Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (2007)av Dave Isay (Redaktör)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This book was unbelievably moving. It is a must read for anyone interested in the American experience of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dave Isay deserves a medal for coming up with the idea for StoryCorps, and for making it such an amazing reality. I highly recommend this book. ( ) This was a short freebie from Audible around Thanksgiving (thanks Audible!) The StoryCorps Project is dedicated to collecting the stories of ordinary Americans for future generations. People participate through interviews by either a family member, friend, or a volunteer at the Storycorps booth in selected cities or in the mobile traveling booth. This audio was only one hour of excerpts from some of the interviews. Hearing the stories in their own voices was very powerful and many moved me to tears. I didn't want the hour to end and would like to listen to the full length audio. Highly recommended! So-so collection of quotes that worked better on radio. By and large, the stories featured here are interesting however, most are much too short (being anecdotes cherry-picked from longer interviews). Having read several of Studs Terkel's books, I've come to expect more from pieces that are being presented as oral histories: to wit, a real sense of the subject, and a fuller picture of his or her life rather than just an isolated incident or two. Maybe that's understandable, given that StoryCorps' interviews are conducted by friends and family, but this is still a case of less is more (fewer pieces, but longer ones). I am a fan of NPR’s StoryCorps Project. Simply put, “StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell.” In this book, editor Dave Isay compiles some of the more memorable stories recorded in the early years of the project. They are moving, horrific, tender, funny, beautifully simple, incredibly complex, inspiring and loving. The stories are divided into five major sections: Home & Family, Work & Dedication, Journeys, History & Struggle, and Fire & Water. In relating their memories, hopes, fears, joys, disappointments and dreams those who have recorded their stories are leaving a legacy for generations to come. Frequently this type of collection is best read a little at a time. Certainly that was my intention when I opened it up. I was half-way through another book and thought I’d read a story or two of this one each day until I finished. But I was so mesmerized by these vivid yet simply told stories that I had to tear myself away. I finished it in two sessions. I want more. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML:From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps??the largest oral history project in the nation's history??presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans and preserving them for future generations. In New York City and in mobile recording booths traveling the country??from small towns to big cities, at Native American reservations and an Army post??StoryCorps is collecting the memories of Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. The project represents a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity, capturing for posterity the stories that define us and bind us together. In Listening Is an Act of Love, StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the most remarkable stories from the already vast collection and arranges them thematically into a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives??to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or caricature. Above all, this book honors the gift each StoryCorps participant has made, from the raw material of his or her life, to the Americans who will come after. We are our history, individually and collectively, and Listening Is an Act of Love touchingly reminds us of this Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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