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Yellow-Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
Length: 03:00

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Sd12_yellow_cramer_small Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.

"Yellow-Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues" was produced by Jane Cramer for the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, a collaboration with EveryBlock, which invited anyone and everyone to produce short audio works featuring at least two neighbors, a color in the title, and three consecutive seconds of narrative silence. 

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Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.

"Yellow-Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues" was produced by Jane Cramer for the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, a collaboration with EveryBlock, which invited anyone and everyone to produce short audio works featuring at least two neighbors, a color in the title, and three consecutive seconds of narrative silence.