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From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series

Defiantly dancing in the midst of grief

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students

Anna Reidy is unable to forget the sound of the "war games" her family involved her in when she was a child, in this detailed report on the organiz...

Viktor Ullman's Compositions in Terezin

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students

Jory Debenham explores the work Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann created in the Terezin concentration camp.

Muzica Populara

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students

Ben Dumbauld explores Sunnyside, Queens and Muzica Populara, a Romanian genre where "the politics was never as important as the dancing."

Bought by WABE

Trauma Glossolalia: Synesthesia and Sound

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students

Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...

Music and Noise

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students

Music-induced hearing loss and the shifting borders between noise and music.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KRZA

Live Alligator Wrestling

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling

A hilarious look at the man who invented live alligator wrestling as a Florida tourist attraction, and his inventive wife who raised a family outsi...

Florida Folk and the Tales They Do

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling

Phyllis McEwen and Bob Devin-Jones bring to life African-American folktales and songs that Zora Neale Hurston collected in Florida in the 1930s.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Purple

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling

Ned Averill-Snell remembers a side-of-the-road breakdown after a summer Shakespeare show, where a roadside diner crowd had to face a shaggy actor s...