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Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries

Author: Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips has been a radio features journalist and audio documentarist and oral historian since 1986, both as public radio freelancer and, since 1993, as a career journalist at the Voice of America. Adam has won nearly twenty international, national and in-house awards for his work, which highlights the experiences and realities of everyday people with extraordinary stores to tell, and which makes extensive use of found sound and music to create a “theater of the mind.” Adam teaches Audio Documentary Making at the New School’s Graduate School of Media Studies, and Oral History at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. His combines his lifelong interests in mythology, theater and community building in his celebrancy practice, which uses ceremonies to mark life’s milestones and the processes of nature. Adam was ‘born, bred and buttered’ in New York City.

Hillbilly Stereotypes

Adam went down to the coal-rich mountains of the southern Appalachian mountains, where “hillbillies” are presumed to live. Through on-site interviews and a survey look at American pop culture, he examines the hillbilly stereotype, its roots and impact.

Jewish Humor in America

A sound-rich look at the ways the Jews in America have influenced what Americans find funny, while expressing themselves and their take on life at the same time.

Alan Ginsberg Tribute (1998)

This is my tribute to the great Ginsberg, whom I interviewed at length before his death. The subject was him but necessarily included major leitmotifs including Buddhism, activism, psychedelics, the Beats, being gay and being Jewish and being a mystic and gentle outlaw, much beloved.. (all this in addition to his poetry, per se). Give […]

Labor Day: Everyday Americans Reflect

Labor Day: Everyday Americans Reflect Monday (Sept 7) is Labor Day in America, a day most Americans associate with a three day weekend and a farewell to summertime. However, this national holiday is also a time to honor workers and the central place their labor has in our lives. VOA’s Adam Phillips spoke to a […]