Audiobiography: A Sonic Memoir of the 1960s

Authors

John F. Barber, Washington State UniversityFollow

Abstract

This essay and its accompanying sound file speak to a personal narrative of the author's life in the 1960s, a time of tremendous social, political, and cultural change. By creating a narrative of his life at the time, sampled from period radio and television reports/programs, the author attempts to recreate the rhetorical context of his life at that time. The desired end result is a personal narrative with a broader appeal. Not a typical radio documentary, however, nor a narrated history, the intent of Sounds of My Life: A sixties radio narrative is instead to remix the medium of its original telling, empowering listeners to combine the sounds heard with the recollection of their own lived / related experience to create a meaningful, immersive personal rhetorical experience.

About the Author(s)

John F. Barber teaches in The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. This work evolves from his interest in sound as the basis for digital storytelling, especially geo-locative narrative and Internet radio. Desired results are engagement and immersion. Thanks for reading/listening.

DOI

10.15760/harlot.2013.9.6

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39444

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Barber, John F. (2013) "Audiobiography: A Sonic Memoir of the 1960s," Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion: No. 9, 6.
https://doi.org/10.15760/harlot.2013.9.6