Contested: Sports and Society

FAIN: TD-50681-14

Center for Documentary Studies (Durham, NC 27705-4854)
John Biewen (Project Director: August 2013 to June 2016)

Development of a multipart radio series exploring the social and cultural dynamics of athletics in America.

Contested is a multi-pronged project that explores the role of sport in American culture and society. It will reach millions of public radio listeners, and an online audience, through these venues: 1) a series of sound-rich short documentaries (six-to-eight-minutes) on a nationally broadcast public radio program such as NPR's "All Things Considered", and 2) a documentary for "This American Life" exploring the rapidly growing world of sports talk radio as a venue in which American men define and redefine masculinity in the 21st century.

Associated Products

"Contested," podcast and radio series (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: "Contested," podcast and radio series
Writer: John Biewen
Director: John Biewen
Producer: John Biewen
Abstract: A six-episode podcast series telling stories that explore the role of sports in U.S. society, in particular with respect to social divisions such as class, race, and sexual orientation.
Date: 09/09/15
Primary URL: http://http://podcast.cdsporch.org
Primary URL Description: Website for the Center for Documentary Studies podcast, Scene on Radio. The Contested series comprised Episodes 1 through 6 of the podcast.
Secondary URL: http://http://www.npr.org/2014/10/16/356728101/cardinals-playoff-success-dampened-by-ferguson-protests
Secondary URL Description: Separately from the podcast series, one short feature (a precursor to what would become the longer Episode 1 of the podcast series) aired on NPR's All Things Considered on October 16, 2014.
Access Model: Open
Format: Radio
Format: Digital File
Format: Web

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