Month: August 2025

While searching for potential stories that would interest me, I decided upon two testimonials that would showcase alternative elements of digital media. For the story of Tony Royster, an American drummer who found his purpose during the COVID lockdown, the visual shows a picture of Royster emphatically beating away on his snare as his drum… Continue reading Storycorps: Dreamer’s Gift and The Drummer

The two stories I listened to on StoryCorps.com were A Time to Speak by Jeff Dupree and David Phillips, and Two Park Rangers Recall Being the First to Clean Mt. Rushmore by Blaine Kortemeyer and Donald Hart. The first story was engaging and emotionally powerful. I listened several times, both with and without the video,… Continue reading Story Corp Blog 1

For my Storycorps, I listened to a story about two National Park Rangers remembering cleaning Mount Rushmore, and then the second was about two students at Kent State recalling the shooting that took place in 1955. Both were extremely interesting and enlightening as I had never heard of the Kent State shooting and never thought… Continue reading StoryCorps

As a student studying German language and culture, I was interested in using Storycorps as an avenue for exploring the kinds of personal narratives that are often overlooked in discussions of Post-War Germany. I’ll start with an example from my own life. Right now, in my Queer Germany class, we’re translating biographical entries for the… Continue reading Post-War German Narratives

Kraftwerk is an highly influential German band that got its start in the early 70’s. They moved from working with acoustic instruments and synthesizers to working purely with synthesizers. Their first album “Trans Europe Express” featured the song “Autobahn” which was a sea change in electronic music. They were true pioneers of mainstream electronic music.… Continue reading Kraftwerk Man Machine