All Pieces for Guy Rathbun

 
Virtuoso part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jabbo Smith
With the burgeoning of jazz in the 1920s, the skills of the virtuoso became more important. After all, the majority of the public wouldn’t have min...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Public Insult Playbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ruth Colker
The rules of public discourse are not what they used to be. In fact, you can say, they are quite similar to what they used to be. Nevertheless, we ...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Virtuoso - part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Harrison
An individual who possesses outstanding talent and rises above the crowd. You’ll hear all of the expected names … with one exception. He didn’t get...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Carnism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Melanie Joy
The average American consumes more than 234-pounds of meat every year. That’s chicken, beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, and fish. That may not even ...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
On the Road
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Motor Lodge
Flat tires and mechanical failures are expected. In order to make a living in the 1920s, musicians had to travel. Frequently, it was one-night stan...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Measure What Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.M. Beach
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Speaks
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Jordan
From its earliest beginnings, jazz was different. Ok, on the surface that may appear obvious. But the difference was not just the way the music was...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tax the Rich
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Morris Pearl
It’s in the tax code. And it’s the rich who manipulate that tax code. Over 70 percent of Americans believe that the economy is rigged to favor the ...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Phrasing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adalaide Hall
It’s easy to overlook the skill that goes into the art of good phrasing in jazz. The challenge for the vocalist or instrumentalist is to have creat...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
White Christian Privilege
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Khyati Joshi
America holds the promise of religious freedom. The US is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world. In reality, though, Chri...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Black Kings of Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
It Sounds So Easy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Improvisation is an inseparable part of jazz. The idea is that a musician takes the melody and embellishes the structure. It’s very much like compo...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Perilous Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Leonard Rubenstein
It’s a horrific common occurrence in war. Especially modern warfare. Hospitals and health care facilities are relentlessly under attack, and health...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Serenaders and Syncopators
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lovie Austin
1920s Chicago South Side featured an abundance of talented musicians. Although mostly forgotten today, even among jazz buffs, is Cara Taylor. Her p...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sideshow
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dick Coy & his Racketeers, Credit: Genette Records
The program features musicians you may have never heard. Although very good, they were mostly territorial. That is, for whatever reason, they chose...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Are We the 99%: The Occupy Movement, Feminism and Intersectionality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Heather Hurwitz
The Occupy movement of 2011 was thought to be unified. Although it created a foundation for future actions, the movement did perpetuate status-quo ...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Decolonizing Wealth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edgar Villanueva
Our world is out of balance. Systemic racism is an ever-present shame. If that’s not enough, the culprit of our imbalance is the foundational princ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Counterpoint
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Counterpoint
Sometime before 1900, jazz began to adopt various partners in music from the harmonies of the barbershop quartets, ragtime, blues, and classical. F...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2

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