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25-564: The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s–60s popular music ." They originally aired starting in 1969 and concluded about 1974. Both were produced by John Gilliland . Inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival , the Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 1960s originally was produced at KRLA 1110 and first aired on February 9, 1969. John Gilliland narrated

50-449: A Kashmiri Shikarah Wala and his auto rickshaw driver friend in Delhi. Although they never met each other their unseen bond is the subject of this rare Documentary which transcends the barriers of political, religious and regional prejudices. Because both Chitra and Danish had a long tenure at Delhi and had a creative collaboration with many media institutes, their influence is seminal in shaping

75-447: A semantic field related to a radio drama, that can contain all the elements from original sound (interviews) and author texts (epic or scenic type) to noise and music. There has been tremendous interest in the field of radio documentaries, particularly in developing nations such as India, Iran, South Korea and Malaysia. In India, for example, radio documentary is gaining in popularity due to their flexibility, efficiency and accessibility to

100-553: A six-month series, titled "Americans All…Immigrants All," which highlighted the stories of immigrant communities. The lack of documentary-style reporting in this era can be attributed, in part, to technological limitations; recording equipment was not easily portable. An important moment in the establishment of the radio documentary as a widely used and discussed format is the expansion of portable audio recording devices. In 1945, sound archivist and radio producer, Tony Schwartz began to use portable audio recording equipment to collect

125-495: A total of 24 episodes. To promote the show, KSFO "had a 40's month celebration with a dance remote and a jitterbug contest at Union Square ." Allan M. Newman of KSFO said of the show that Gilliland, "interviewed damn near everybody involved during those years. such as Bing Crosby , Jimmy Van Heusen , Johnny Mercer , Patty Andrews , Tex Beneke , etc. ... I think John has put together a true collector's item." In 1972, Gilliland had produced and syndicated 12 episodes which covered

150-521: A week of the Pop Chronicles, which were later syndicated by "Hot Air" and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio . The photo above indicates that it was broadcast on KABC-FM sometime before that station became KLOS . The University of North Texas Music Library made the Pop Chronicles available online since June 2010. The Pop Chronicles of the 1940s was produced by John Gilliland and broadcast on KSFO (AM) while he worked there beginning in 1972 for

175-456: The 1930s, with radio stations like WNYC entering the airspace, reporters documented real people and real-life scenarios through short on-the-ground interviews rather than dramatization. Other notable documentary broadcasts include unrefined one-shot audio recordings of events, such as the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. By 1939, CBS responded to growing anxieties about immigration in the U.S. with

200-531: The ability of listeners across the globe to access the content for free. At its best, radio combines the power and immediacy of great documentary films with the intimacy and poetry of a New Yorker -style magazine piece. Staring red-eyed at the mirror in front of me, having spent another day and half of the night with my computer, I ask myself fundamental questions: Why radio? Why documentary? Answer: No other medium can provide me with more freedom of creation and investigation. It meets my urgent interest in reality and

225-453: The advent of podcasting and internet radio, the FCC provides no guidelines for these media. Programs are allowed to skirt FCC regulation, marking yet another shift in the content and style of documentary programming. Current features that exemplify the new possibilities opened by podcasting include the often gritty subject matter of Love + Radio and the critical success of the podcast Serial due to

250-605: The controversial " Daisy " television advertisement for the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson campaign . Considered a guru of the newly emerging "electronic media" by Marshall McLuhan , Schwartz ushered in a new age of media study in the 1970s. His works anticipated the end of the print-based media age and pointed to a new electronic age of mass media. Born in Manhattan , Schwartz was raised there briefly before his family moved to Peekskill, New York . At 16, he went blind for about six months. He had previously been interested in ham radio , and

275-417: The desire for a 'musical' expression. The material ( der Werkstoff ) is sound. And sound always surrounds us. And: I'm not so much interested in the description of stable situations, but in processes. Our medium is not space, but time; our stories are not glued to the ground, but have motion, life ... That's why! So what is a radio feature? Technically speaking, it is a 30- to 60-minute, elaborate broadcast from

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300-446: The first half of the 1940s. He then asked his listeners to write to their stations if they wanted to hear the rest of the series. He would produce another 12 episodes to cover the rest of the 1940s. This series was syndicated by Doug Andrews and broadcast on AFRTS . In 1973 MCA Records used the show to sell a nine-album set of music from the show, so the show could be offered for free to radio stations. But in 1974, RCA negotiated for

325-632: The incident focused him more on sound as did his lifelong agoraphobia . He earned a degree in graphic design from the Pratt Institute and worked as a civilian artist for the United States Navy during World War II . He later earned honorary degrees from John Jay College , Emerson College , and Stonehill College . Schwartz began recording ambient sounds, spoken word, and folk music , releasing many albums on Folkways Records and Columbia Records . One of his albums, New York Taxi Driver ,

350-504: The lack of public attention to venereal disease. With the founding of National Public Radio in 1971, radio documentary began shifting again due to non-commercial educational media. For a short time, programs such as All Things Considered explored creative styles of presenting non-fiction by deviating from now-traditional styles of radio documentary by hiring reporters outside of the radio sphere. Important shifts in technology have allowed radio documentary to travel beyond analog. With

375-457: The masses. Producers such as Chitra Narain and Danish Iqbal have been accredited with its revival and popularity in the region. Danish Iqbal who is primarily a drama producer combined the elements of dramatic narrative to produce some memorable radio documentaries. His documentary "Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai" is considered a classic for the use of effective narrative and ambient sounds. This documentary presents an account of unseen bridges between

400-562: The past. Briefly specializing in advertising using children, he soon broadened into general advertising, creating ads for such clients as Coca-Cola , American Airlines , Chrysler , American Cancer Society , and Kodak . Schwartz subsequently shifted his advertising work toward political campaigns. While continuing to create product ads, he created thousands of political ads for such candidates as Lyndon Johnson , Jimmy Carter , Bill Clinton , Ted Kennedy , Hubert Humphrey , George McGovern , and Daniel Patrick Moynihan . He also created

425-670: The rights to the show. In 1994, Gilliland released an edited version as the four cassette audiobook Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's . This was later rereleased as The Big Band Chronicles . After his death, Gilliand's sister donated the Pop Chronicles tapes to the University of North Texas Music Library where they form the John Gilliland Collection. Radio documentary The early stages of fiction audio storytelling did not entirely resemble what would later be called radio documentaries. In

450-404: The series along with Sie Holliday and Thom Beck (pictured). Also performing interviews were Dick LaPalm , Lew Irwin , Harry Shearer , Mike Masterson , and Richard Perry . The show's brief recurring theme song "The Chronicles of Pop" was written and performed by Len Chandler . The engineer and associate producer of the series was Chester Coleman . KRLA 1110 originally broadcast an hour

475-457: The sounds of his neighborhood in New York City to share on his WNYC radio show; his features ran for 30 years and grew to include the sounds of daily life recorded by and mailed to him from people around the world. This style of sharing true-life sound bytes would remain in public radio documentary. In 1946, one of the most pivotal developments in the spread and stylization of radio documentary

500-611: The soundtrack for the 1973 Oscar-winning animated short Frank Film . In a final transition in his career, he turned his energies toward social-awareness advertising which he was familiar with having created the first anti-smoking commercials for radio and television early in his career. In the 1980s, he resumed these efforts, creating many anti-smoking commercials as well as media work for such causes as fire prevention , AIDS awareness, educational funding, and nuclear disarmament . In 2007, Schwartz's entire body of work from 1947 to 1999, including field recordings and commercials,

525-570: The standard, creating a well-known format. The style of reporting for the CBS features was adopted and melded by ABC and NBC networks. The format included extensive interviews to gain multiple perspectives on an issue, adherence to journalistic ethics, and often a call to action; the programming was usually released as multiple segments and at peak times. Examples of these first documentary projects include CBS' 1946 war feature, The Empty Noose , and ABC's 1949 program, V.D., A Conspiracy of Silence , addressing

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550-428: The thinking of many of their students and co-workers. Danish won twice the prestigious Public Service Broadcasting Award for his documentaries. Tony Schwartz (sound archivist) Tony Schwartz (August 19, 1923 – June 15, 2008) was an American sound archivist, sound designer , pioneering media theorist , and advertising creator. Known as the "wizard of sound", he is perhaps best known for his role in creating

575-574: Was acquired by the Library of Congress . Schwartz's wife, Reenah Lurie Schwartz, often worked closely with him on scriptwriting. They were married in 1959 and had two children: Michaela Schwartz-Burridge and jazz saxophonist, Anton Schwartz . Schwartz is featured prominently as a character in the play "Daisy" by Sean Devine about the creation of the Daisy Ad, which premiered in Seattle in 2016. Tony Schwartz

600-589: Was among the first 100 recordings inducted into the National Recording Registry . From 1945 to 1976, Schwartz produced and hosted "Around New York" on WNYC . He transitioned into advertising work in 1958 when approached by Johnson and Johnson about creating ads for the company's baby powder products based on his previous work recording children. His resulting work is often credited as the first use of children's real voices in radio commercials as specially trained adults had always done such voice work in

625-466: Was the creation of the CBS Documentary Unit. It was the first sector of a major media network dedicated to this format of radio. The unit was "'devoted exclusively to the production of programs dealing with major domestic and international issues and involving extraordinary research and preparation'". Not only did the content deviate from programming that favors advertisers, the style deviated from

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