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The First Idea: How Symbols, Language and Intelligence Evolved From Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans “The First Idea: How Symbols, Language ...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gaylarks - a band Frank Zappa saw and swooned over while he was in high school.
The geographic assumption underlying the first rock and roll record was an origination in the Southern U.S. This assumption was superior to, and ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:22:10
  • Purchases: 6
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Yael Berda is a young Israeli lawyer, born in New York and raised in Jerusalem. At the age of 14, she became involved in a struggle to free her par...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Freddie Keppard
The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Veltones
Songs about "I want my baby back," "stronger than dirt" and the probable origin of the song, Twenty Flight Rock as we search for the first rock and...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM, WQCS and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Some Of My First Recordings Using A Fishing Pole For A Boom Pole.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2022
  • Length: 10:13
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Magic Slim and the Teardrops stayed true to the sound of Chicago Blues

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Luther Allison took Blues to a new level, yet stayed true to it's roots.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Buddy Bolden
The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Connie Allen
Pre WWII songs revived by rock stars and the songs "Crazy Legs" and "Good Lovin.'" Plus a focus on the original songs covered by The Paladins as ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public, WQCS, KFCF FM, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Noble Sissle
He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the post WWII era soul music also emerged along with rock and roll. Soul lyrics were especially light, sweet, and even introspectively sweet. ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG, WQCS and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In this edition of Radio Curious, we take a look at the cello, the kind of musical instrument it is and the sounds it makes. My guest is Jed Baraha...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Duke Ellington Orchesrtra
Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's classic New Letters on the Air features former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, whose poetry from his 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning books h...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rock n' Tones Bop Boy LP Cover
85 song's you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but all could claim to have made "the second rock and roll song." (Because finding...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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What is poetry and song? Perhaps we’ll find out in this program, with guests Ron Whitehead and Sarah Elizabeth from Campbellsville, Kentucky. They ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Benny Moton Orchestra
Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ethel Waters
Before there can be a singer there has to be a lyricist. Fortunately, the 1920s were rich in the number of creative wordsmiths. Not to mention the...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rockin' R's
The first rock and roll songs catered to being on the radio on the hope of catching the masses' ears. And radio catered to this new sound of hot m...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Edythe Turnham's Band
: Jazz emphasized improvisation and individual expression. It became a symbol of freedom and rebellion. Especially for the young. The fact that it...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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Charlie Musselwhite has been playing the blues for over 60 years. His latest project takes him back to his roots in Mississippi.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2