Radio
My radio stories appear on Maine Public Radio, Marketplace, BBC, NPR, PRX, in podcasts and in museums + installations.
Music as a Refuge (PRX/The World)
Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
THE WORLD/PRX
Hadithi Abdulle taught himself to play the oud growing up in Somalia, during a childhood disrupted by civil war. Through the upheaval in his life, including racism in the US, this instrument has been his constant and his refuge. He now shares his stories and music in Maine, the whitest state in the country, and he's taught oud and singing at a center for grieving children in Maine.
LISTEN HERE
Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
THE WORLD/PRX
Hadithi Abdulle taught himself to play the oud growing up in Somalia, during a childhood disrupted by civil war. Through the upheaval in his life, including racism in the US, this instrument has been his constant and his refuge. He now shares his stories and music in Maine, the whitest state in the country, and he's taught oud and singing at a center for grieving children in Maine.
LISTEN HERE
Hell Valley, Hawai‘i, USA (EP 8 PRX)
Produced by Caroline Losneck + J Matt
PRX/Mellon Foundation MONUMENTAL SERIES
The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?
The Monumental series interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author
Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. beginning October 30, 2023.
My episode is about Hononuliuli, a former "detention camp" on Oahu, close to Honolulu, where hundreds of people of Japanese ancestry were forcably imprisoned in WWII for no reason but their ancestry. Pearl Harbor National Monument is the most visited place in Hawaii, and it’s one of two national sites recognizing a foreign assault on U.S. soil. The monument tells the story of the Japanese Empire’s sneak attack on the island of Oahu in 1941 and how the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War II the following day. But the U.S. government did something else that’s not often talked about: martial law was immediately declared in Hawaii, followed by the incarceration of men, women and children of Japanese ancestry. Just over ten miles from Pearl Harbor is the Honouliuli National Historic Site. It was Hawaii's largest and longest-serving World War II confinement camp, and it’s now being developed by the National Park Service as a new memorial space that will eventually be open to the public. It’s only when we look at Pearl Harbor and Honouliuli together – and see them as inextricably part of the same story – that we can reconcile who we Americans believe ourselves to be, with who we sometimes actually are.
For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental
LISTEN TO MY EPISODE HERE.
Produced by Caroline Losneck + J Matt
PRX/Mellon Foundation MONUMENTAL SERIES
The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?
The Monumental series interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author
Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. beginning October 30, 2023.
My episode is about Hononuliuli, a former "detention camp" on Oahu, close to Honolulu, where hundreds of people of Japanese ancestry were forcably imprisoned in WWII for no reason but their ancestry. Pearl Harbor National Monument is the most visited place in Hawaii, and it’s one of two national sites recognizing a foreign assault on U.S. soil. The monument tells the story of the Japanese Empire’s sneak attack on the island of Oahu in 1941 and how the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War II the following day. But the U.S. government did something else that’s not often talked about: martial law was immediately declared in Hawaii, followed by the incarceration of men, women and children of Japanese ancestry. Just over ten miles from Pearl Harbor is the Honouliuli National Historic Site. It was Hawaii's largest and longest-serving World War II confinement camp, and it’s now being developed by the National Park Service as a new memorial space that will eventually be open to the public. It’s only when we look at Pearl Harbor and Honouliuli together – and see them as inextricably part of the same story – that we can reconcile who we Americans believe ourselves to be, with who we sometimes actually are.
For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental
LISTEN TO MY EPISODE HERE.
Riot Grrrl Energy on an Island Off Maine
Produced by Caroline Losneck
KEXP Sound + Vision
The band Bait Bag calls North Haven Island, Maine home, but their influences come from Washington State’s Riot Grrrl movement of the '90s.
What's more punk rock than band practice in the community school?
Profile by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
Produced by Caroline Losneck
KEXP Sound + Vision
The band Bait Bag calls North Haven Island, Maine home, but their influences come from Washington State’s Riot Grrrl movement of the '90s.
What's more punk rock than band practice in the community school?
Profile by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not the Smithsonian
Produced by Caroline Losneck + The Kitchen Sisters
KEEPERS Series: stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep.
Sometimes we find the story, sometimes the story finds us. Such is the case with this tale of two Keepers from the Northwest, John Burton + Kevin Shuss, the official/unofficial archivists for Pearl Jam. Caroline Losneck, a radio producer in Maine heard our Keepers series about activist archivists and rogue librarians and said to herself, “Hey wait a minute, what about that mythic vault in Seattle I’ve been hearing about for years filled to the brim with 30 years of Pearl Jam? Who's keeping that?”
We are especially keen to put Caroline's story out now, as Pearl Jam, a notoriously activist band, has gone all in for registering young voters and getting out the vote since at least 2004 when they took their Vote for Change tour through the swing states of Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida registering as they went. This 2020 election is no exception. LISTEN
Meet The Woman Who's Been Pearl Jam's Sound Engineer For 24 Years
Produced by Caroline Losneck
NPR
Karrie Keyes has worked as a live sound monitor engineer for the band Pearl Jam for decades-one of the longest employees. Her passion for music and supporting young women in sound careers led her to start SoundGirls. Learn more about her work, as "the mic girl."
For NPR by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
Produced by Caroline Losneck
NPR
Karrie Keyes has worked as a live sound monitor engineer for the band Pearl Jam for decades-one of the longest employees. Her passion for music and supporting young women in sound careers led her to start SoundGirls. Learn more about her work, as "the mic girl."
For NPR by Caroline Losneck LISTEN