StoryCorps - Thesis Research
“StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound.” “StoryCorps celebrates our shared humanity and collective identity. It captures and defines the stories that bond us.”
“The project is modeled after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral-history interviews with everyday Americans across the country were recorded. These recordings remain the single most important collection of American voices gathered to date.”
Two permanent venues live in NYC @ Central Station and the former site of the World Trade Towers. An additional two mobile studios are currently traveling the country and should arrive in Los Angeles in January of 2006.
I’m particularly interested in the project as it relates to my thesis and the “Technophiles Anonymous” booth. Check out the blog and interviews on www.storycorps.net/