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Native Sounds: Brent Michael Davids
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds
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Executive Director Shirley Sneve speaks with Brent Michael Davids (Stockbridge Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation), a classically trained musician a...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 17:40
  • Purchases: 1
Student Loan Debts and Other Disasters ( IRS, AP, etc)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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With the White House under fire on 3 fronts...Benghazi, IRS abuses and the Dept. of Justice obtaining phone records from and to the Associated Pres...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 56:46
  • Purchases: 1
Native sounds: Raven Chacon
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds
Caption: NACAP student composers from Chinle High School work out their compositions with composer-in-resident Raven Chacon., Credit: Photo courtesy of Grand Canyon Music Fest
Interactive Media Specialist Eric Martin speaks with Raven Chacon (Navajo) an experimental musician, composer and educator.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 13:28
  • Purchases: 3
Here's Your Hat. What's Your Hurry. ( It's official: C-Span starts coverage of Campaign 2016...and with good reason....judging from this week's news.)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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From The Beltway... to Chris Christie's beltsize... to Biden..to still more hearings on Benghazi... to the budget...to gloating over blocking backg...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 1
Up In The Air
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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"Flight" is a common theme in recent major news events...from fixing the air traffic controllers' sequester...to Rand Paul's latest comments on dro...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 56:09
  • Purchases: 1
Bank Scandals Update (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Congress reported its findings on the "London Whale" scandal....a trader who racked up more than 6 billion dollars in losses for federally insured ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 57:47
  • Purchases: 1
"Trespasses With Press Passes ( And Crossing Red Lines)"...told through narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Been awhile since I've devoted a full episode to media coverage of current events...so this week....a look at media coverage of ....among other thi...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 55:51
  • Purchases: 1
After CPAC/After SXSW
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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A review of the star speakers at the CPAC ( Conservative Action Political Conference)...told through narration,music and soundbites. Let's just say...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 57:41
  • Purchases: 1
What's A Progressive To DO?
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Progressives ( and others) might've thought Washington gridlock could soon break. There was a drone filibuster and President Obama's been meeting...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 57:28
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Dr. Lonnie Smith
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Dr. Lonnie Smith
"They name it -- they just come up with all kinds of names..."'Funk'... 'jazz' or... 'acid jazz.' Or they named it 'boogaloo.' We don't know anyth...

Bought by Prairie Public, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 5
"The Sequester: The Jury Is In (Told through narration, music and soundbites)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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This week: all the things being said about the sequester...including the best explanation for the sequester that I've heard.....the gun debate is s...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 57:01
Theatrics And Politics (And News)..Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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If you've paid any attention to the latest political discourse on subjects ranging from fed spending to cabinet posts to policing Wall Street...the...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:50
Congress,Kerry, Hillary, Gabby (among others) And The Shifting Politics of 2013...told through narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Big week for major issue debates on national and foreign policy ..with major implications for Obama's second term.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 56:18
"Pork, The Fiscal Cliff and YOU. (What happened/What Happens Next)..told thru narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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So, how did 60 to 70 billion dollars in tax breaks for corporations and special interests end up in the emergency legislation that was designed to...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
"Which of These News Stories Is NOT Like the Others?"
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Hillary went to the hospital. Putin signed the law banning Americans from adopting Russian Orphans. Congress's report on what went wrong in Bengha...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 57:16
Do The Math! ( The Numbers Don't Add Up ...on resolving the Fiscal Cliff, Gun Violence Or Immigration Policy)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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When it comes to resolving all the vital issues now facing the country, Congress can't do the math. Not the Fiscal Cliff. Not Gun Violence. Not Imm...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 55:55
"The Fiscal Cliff and The Art of the Deal"...told through narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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A closer look at the battle over the budget, taxes and spending...through narration music and soundbites

  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 55:25
Legacy Media vs. Digital Media: News From and About Both..told thru narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Are Legacy and Digital Media creating better news...or just more content? This program explores what they've both been doing lately...separately an...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 55:47
Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
Rufusized: Tony Maiden & kevin Murphy of Rufus Vol. I
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rufus live on stage (Tony Maiden and Kevin Murphy), Credit: http://www.rufus.org/
The story of RUFUS featuring CHAKA KHAN in their own words, by two of the founding members; keyboardist KEVIN MURPHY and guitarist TONY MAIDEN.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:57
MORE About Animals in the News (UPDATE/REMIX 2012)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: 'Sugar' the Cat
A "newsical" overview of the news media craze for stories about animals, our own personal relationships with animals and my own experience as a per...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2012
  • Length: 56:21
JazzStories: Percy Heath
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 15:31
  • Purchases: 5
Igor's Halloween Jazz Party
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula , Credit: Fantasy Records
Hey! It's Halloween, it's Jazz and it's a party! Join Igor as he presents Halloween Jazz classics from John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Lambert Hendrick...

Bought by KHNS, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, Delmarva Public Media, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 12
Coloring Outside the Lines
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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Legal art is commercial. There is no true "public" art. The most free art is illegal. A proposition in sound.

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 10:06
  • Purchases: 1
What if Vanilla Ice Kept it Real?
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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A journey into ideas of self-love. Can we be ourselves, and still be accepted?

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:50
  • Purchases: 1