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podcast1997–

The Moth

Disciplines:
storytelling
storytelling/narrative
sociology/community
live performance

Summary

George Dawes Green's nonprofit storytelling organization — which presents live unscripted personal stories on stage — whose podcast distributes these performances — the most influential live storytelling organization.

Core Contribution

Creates the live unscripted personal story format as performance — The Moth's requirement (stories told from memory, with no notes, with a beginning, middle, and end) is the model that launched the live storytelling movement and the story slam format.

Historical Influences

Personal narrative tradition Southern oral tradition

Intellectual Lineage

George Dawes Green New York National tour and podcast

Allied Works

How to Tell a Story Risk!The Snap Judgment

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Live storytelling genre

Intellectual Posterity

The Moth Story slam The Moth Radio HourHow to Tell a Story

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