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Radio Projects Overview  The Farm CDS on iTunes Youth Noise Network  Radio Projects Overview CDS documentary radio projects explore American lives and communities through the intimate power of sound. They emphasize storytelling and audio verité—“the sound of life happening.” Featuring multiple voices, real-life scenes, and in-depth fieldwork, they tell stories that advance understanding about society and explore, even if implicitly, questions of human dignity and justice. More broadly, audio programs at CDS are multifaceted, reflecting a commitment to the teaching, making, and presentation of documentary work. Students in undergraduate and continuing studies courses, as well as participants in CDS Audio Institutes, learn various skills—from sound recording to writing and scripting to digital mixing. Students hear audio work from many genres and explore broader issues such as documentary ethics and producer-subject relationships. Student pieces reach audiences through podcasts, community presentations, and radio—the program promotes a blend of teaching and doing audio work by connecting student work to ongoing CDS radio projects. Pieces produced at CDS summer institutes have been played before rooms filled with people from local neighborhoods whose stories are being told; student pieces have also found homes on a variety of radio outlets, from WUNC and WNCU in the Triangle region of North Carolina to NPR and This American Life. In addition to teaching, audio program director John Biewen produces documentaries and features for National Public Radio, American Public Media, and other radio and online audiences, often in collaboration with other CDS staff, independent producers, or public radio stations. Digging Up Thelonius Monk's Southern Roots Produced by John Biewen of CDS Radio Edited by Tom Cole  Listen to the broadcast (8:05 minutes)The jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk would have celebrated his 90th birthday on October 10, 2007. Monk died in 1982. Besides his penchant for odd hats and other eccentricities, Monk is usually remembered as a hip New Yorker. He was a pioneer of Bebop who lived most of his life on Manhattan’s West Side. But Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and raised by his mother, a native of that tobacco and railroad town. Some scholars and fellow musicians say Monk’s Southern roots had an overlooked but important influence on the man and his music. Our story was produced by John Biewen of CDS Radio. Visit All Things Considered's Web site for their broadcast of "Digging Up Thelonius Monk's Southern Roots"  Green Street, later renamed Red Row, the Rocky Mount, North Carolina road on which Thelonious Monk's family lived, from his birth in 1917 until 1922. Photo by Jonathan Williams, 1970, Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. See also: The Jazz Loft Project at CDS Racial Cleansing in America Produced by John Biewen of CDS in association with the Center for Investigative Reporting Edited by Deborah George
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to the broadcast (13:27 minutes)Once in a while, you come across an American town or county that has long been virtually all-white, even though surrounding communities have black populations. It may not be an accident. Between the Civil War and the 1920s, in more than a few rural communities, white mobs violently expelled virtually all of their black neighbors. One of the places living with this uneasy history is Corbin, Kentucky, a small railroad town in the Appalachian foothills. 
The CDS documentary "Racial Cleansing in America" is part of a multimedia project at the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) exploring the hidden history and lasting impact of this chapter in America's racial history. CIR also co-produced the film "Banished," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will air later this year on PBS, about three towns being forced to face their racist pasts; and provided assistance to Elliot Jaspin for his book on the topic, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. Visit Weekend Edition Saturday's Web site for their broadcast of "Racial Cleansing in America," which features an excerpt from the book Buried in the Bitter Waters by Elliot Jaspin CDS on iTunes 
CDS iTunes site: 70+ tracks of work by CDS students, Youth Noise Network, CDS Radio, and other CDS programs Launch CDS iTunes site Married to the Military 
Married to the Military, a production of American RadioWorks and CDS Visit the American RadioWorks Web site to listen to the hour-long radio program and view photographs from Fayetteville and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Married to the Military is also featured on "Weekend Edition Sunday" (August 14, 2005), "The Diane Rehm Show" (August 8, 2005), "All Things Considered" (July 3, 2005), and "Weekend America" (July 2, 2005). Days of Infamy 
The radio special Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11, a co-production of the Center for Documentary Studies and American RadioWorks, captures Americans' immediate responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and contrasts them with the voices of Americans sixty years earlier as they reacted to the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor. This powerful hour of radio, drawing on Library of Congress recordings and new interviews with prominent Americans who lived through both attacks, is an illuminating look at our nation in crisis; it reveals striking changes in American society, and the national character, over two generations. Read the press release for Days of Infamy. Days of Infamy is part of Understanding America after 9/11, the 2002 Public Radio Collaboration, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Archival recordings are courtesy of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Additional support was provided by the Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation. Looking Back: 9/11 Across America 
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