Each semester, students in various programs at Syracuse University are taking part in The Sound Beat Class Partnership Project. They’ve followed our script production process: selecting recordings, planning a programming schedule, researching and then writing: starting with longer papers and arriving at Sound Beat-sized scripts. It’s been a great experience on our end! We’re sure the students have loved us [...]

December is, perhaps above all, a time for storytelling. For example: the baby Jesus born amidst barnyard animals, and jolly old Saint Nick’s physics-defying ride. Most everyone knows about those, but how about  the Maccabees giving the Greeks their own Spartan impression, centuries after Leonidas and company? Christmas carols and other holiday tunes serve as [...]

Censorship remains a hotly-contested issue in music, not to mention many facets of American life. One one hand, of course, you’ve got the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech constitutionally. And on the other hand, turn on the radio, and the double (and sometimes single) entendres seem to come pouring out. We’re all for [...]