Month: January 2024

For this assignment I listened to “Helping The Dogs of Chernobyl” told by Stephen Quandt and “This Couple is Fighting for Equality and Safety for Two Spirit People on Tribal Land” told by Felipa Deleon Mousseau and Monique “Muffie” Mousseau. Both stories originally aired on NPR’s morning edition last year. Both stories are about three… Continue reading StoryCorps Lagan McGinnis

For this assignment I ended up listening to “He Inherited The Very Same Name” and “18 Years After Katrina, A Grocer Rebuilds His Community One Shop at a Time.” Both are from within the last year and are less than ten minutes long, with the first being around three minutes and the second being about… Continue reading StoryCorps: Rebuilding a Community and Remembering Joseph

For this assignment, I decided to listen to and compare one of the oldest and one of the newest recordings on the StoryCorps website. This allowed me to have a unique experience because the recordings are very different, in almost every way. The first was released in 1990 and is titled Coney Island, while the… Continue reading StoryCorps: 1990 vs 2024

STORYCORPS 460: At the Movies  This first podcast was a collection of three stories, which depicted unexpected ways in which people’s lives were influenced by their experiences at the movies. The podcast began with the narrator introducing the topic of the episode and the first story. This opening was peppered with sound bites, which either… Continue reading Storycorps: Amelia Allende Mendes

Neil Young’s “Trans” was a big departure for the artist. As an songwriter and performer, he had alternated between folk-rock and garage rock (with his band Crazy Horse). In the 1980’s, he made a series of albums that were commercial flops but showed that he was willing to task risks. Trans makes heavy use of… Continue reading Neil Young “Trans”