K E M. (Rampallion) reviewed Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound, Vol. 1 (Audio Cassette) on + 158 more book reviews
Surprising and amazing radio essays about big and small events in North American life. Included are:
* a children's funeral service for a pet turtle
* a cardboard disk recorded by Tennessee Williams in a New Orleans penny arcade
* stories and songs of Cuban cigarmakers (narrated by Andy Garcia)
* carnival talkers
* fishmongers' sales pitches
* the sounds of the Northern Lights
* the life work of an agoraphobic professor who recorded thousands of everyday sounds within one ZIP Code in New York City
Two cassettes, about two and a half hours total.
* a children's funeral service for a pet turtle
* a cardboard disk recorded by Tennessee Williams in a New Orleans penny arcade
* stories and songs of Cuban cigarmakers (narrated by Andy Garcia)
* carnival talkers
* fishmongers' sales pitches
* the sounds of the Northern Lights
* the life work of an agoraphobic professor who recorded thousands of everyday sounds within one ZIP Code in New York City
Two cassettes, about two and a half hours total.
