Source: Open Source

Description: with Christopher Lydon

http://www.radioopensource.org

Tony Schwartz — for the Next Generation

Tony Schwartz -- who made "the Daisy Spot," the most famous TV commercial in American politics -- built a career on the supremacy of sound, and the ear, in selling.

Audio|Fri, 27 Jun 2008
|CBS radiofound at19:34, 2:19

“…at -- you know Tony did do that he was hired by CBS radio. . Q reached Ford Motor Co. who wasn't buying CBS in Detroit. And so he produced and add a radio ads that -- you the president of a car company. And he not only got -- he got all three major car companies CEO authored it and bought CBS radio. . Tony mentioned in the last comment. -- search that if an idea that he came up he said. Most people who do …”

“…The Wizard of -- about him there was -- all of the Orson Welles there was an element of Marcia McClure and -- a man with deep ideas -- lots of tricks and all men with …”

Obama-McCain: the World’s Main Event

How Barack Obama became the world's candidate for president of the US: by tuning the meaning of "American exceptionalism."

Audio|Wed, 18 Jun 2008
|New York Yankeesfound at9:39, 12:40

“…to mind. Biggest is Derek Jeter the shortstop and captain of the New York Yankees but. Remember a -- Bob Marley too as a sort of metro racial personality this is a complex thing and I begin …”

“…foreign postseason affects China who will affect Africa over the effects the Middle East and so forth. I think what you're finding here now with this election isn't growing recognition and certainly the recognition that wedge …”

Dan Ariely: Confronting Irrationality

Dan Ariely shows how often we don't know what we're choosing and don't get what we want -- because we are predictably irrational creatures.

Audio|Tue, 10 Jun 2008

What Novelists are For: Russell Banks

A great American novelist, Russell Banks, thinks out loud about the real historical and emotional context of the United States at decision point.

Audio|Thu, 5 Jun 2008

Calabash ‘08: Reggae & the Obama Moment

Bob Marley and Barack Obama are the absent giants at Jamaica's Calabash festival of writers and readers -- Obama because he, too, seems a monument to imagination.

Audio|Tue, 3 Jun 2008

Calabash ‘08 (Part 2): As Others See Us

Writers in Jamaica at the Calabash literary festival sound notes of lyricism, multiplicity and what feels like a second surge of post-imperial feeling.

Audio|Fri, 30 May 2008

Calabash ‘08: First, the fireworks…

Alpha Males of the Caribbean: Derek Walcott goes to war with the only other West Indian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, V. S. Naipaul.

Audio|Wed, 28 May 2008

Open Source Storytelling: Ben Haggarty

Click to listen to Chris's conversation with Ben Haggarty & Company (33 minutes, 15 mb mp3) Ben Haggerty, open sorcerer Ben Haggarty picks up on the question "where do stories come from?" at roughly the point where David Amram left off on the mystery of where music comes from. David Amram said his music comes from what touched his heart in train whistles and the sounds of his father's farm, later from the cadences of Jack Kerouac and flights of Dizzy Gillespie. Ben Haggarty's folk tales come from as far back as the Stone Age. Many of the same stories, he says, turn up in Japan and in Ireland, in Greek mythology and the trenches of World War One. No, Ben says, it doesn't turn out that there are six basic stories in the world. There are more nearly 6-billion stories, or more likely 6-billion times 6-billion because we each and all tend to hear every story differently. Ben Haggarty has been collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma's magical Silk Road Project, which reconnects our ears to the ageless music of the trade routes. And this week, the Silk Roadsters and Ben Haggerty are working with students at the Rhode Island School of Design to set both music and stories before bold curtains of fresh, sometimes improvisational images. So here we are in hip, happening Providence, listening in on a rehearsal. Not the least of Ben Haggerty's tale is the "open source" moral of it all: I'm against copyright. I'm involved in an interpretive, re-creational art form... These stories belong to everybody, and the reason that they've lasted so long, really from the Stone Age to the present day (some of them), is that they contain in them the essence of human experience. That's what we respond to: the truth, the authenticity of a situation, or the comedy... or the horror... or the pity of a situation. In a sense that is always contemporary. Pain and loss and the joy of retrieval have been going on since human beings have had relationships... It's not sustainable to create new work all the time -- to hold everything, to sell everything... In terms of the riches of art and the imagination, it's all been done before. What is new is that people haven't met it before. So when you encounter something for the first time, there's your newness. There's nothing wrong with recycling. Storyteller Ben Haggarty in conversation with Chris Lydon at the Rhode Island School of Design, May 2008 With thanks to Producer Paul McCarthy and to Victoria Chao, Brown Class of 2008.

Audio|Wed, 21 May 2008
|Providence Rhode Islandfound at0:27, 4:09

“…And Christopher -- this is open source. From the watch and instituted Brown University we call it an American conversation with the global attitude. -- and I'd intersection this time in Providence, , Rhode Island where new music and old stories come together with -- theater at all sorts of inspired new imagery. From students at the …”

“…idea of the deformity that hunch that they've turned it into -- skin condition. . That is contemporary story in this -- it's an interesting story and I'm I'm. Intrigued the pictures from the the bundle of …”