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How to Avoid Breaking Out the Musical Sledge Hammer: Or How to Use Music Most Effectively

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Default-piece-image-0 Youth radio producer Kiera Feldman reflects on her use of music in the piece, "In a Cornfield in Iowa." What was her reasoning behind her music selection and the timing of the music? How did a piece about trying to find oneself make use of a song by the 1980s band, Journey? Kiera takes the listener behind the scenes, giving us insight into all of these things?including how her thinking about audio documentaries has evolved from her initial thought that it was "print journalism with really cool music." For more information, visit: http://www.transom.org/tools/beginnings/2007/200701_audio_school/

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Youth radio producer Kiera Feldman reflects on her use of music in the piece, "In a Cornfield in Iowa." What was her reasoning behind her music selection and the timing of the music? How did a piece about trying to find oneself make use of a song by the 1980s band, Journey? Kiera takes the listener behind the scenes, giving us insight into all of these things?including how her thinking about audio documentaries has evolved from her initial thought that it was "print journalism with really cool music." For more information, visit: http://www.transom.org/tools/beginnings/2007/200701_audio_school/

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