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Frontier Music

From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind

Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...

Making Music in the Syrian Diaspora

From: The GroundTruth Project

Caption: Ahmad Naffory is pictured on a Beirut rooftop. He founded the band Assa'aleek, but after being denied re-entry to Lebanon, was granted asylum in the Netherlands. The band endures without him, and he has continued making music in his new home., Credit: Photo courtesy of Mohamad Khayata

Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...

Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape (Gravy Ep. 50)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...

Bought by KVLU

Retaining Rondon: Creole Food in a Changing World

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Rondon, a traditional Creole dish, Credit: Maria Doerr

On the Eastern Coast of Nicaragua, palm plantations are taking over land traditionally used for growing coconuts. How are Creole people resisting ...

Bought by KRVS and XRAY.fm

The Singers showcase choral music with a modern twist

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Choral music often consists of centuries-old compositions. But one local group—the Singers Minnesota Choral Artists—has premiered more 70 new compo...

Going plastic free (almost)

From: Veronica Simmonds

My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.

From Ukraine to Michigan: The Bandura Still Sings

From: Willis Arnold
Series: Local Music Worldwide

Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...

Moving Closer

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC

A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited

In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

Transport: A Canine Journey

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Dog overpopulation is a continual problem in much of the American South, where shelters often euthanize more animals than they can save. This is th...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WMPG, and KUOW

Chain of Missing Links (El Pajaro Volador)

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds

Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built fro...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix

Weberdance: An Audio Portrait

From: Chris Engles

Caption: Weberdance, Credit: Chris Engles

Audio portrait of a dance company in Boston, MA.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Paradise with a Key: The Politics of New York’s Community Gardens

From: Jenny Shalant

Caption: Two Coves Community Garden, Credit: Magali Regis

Growing tomatoes on city land can be a messy pursuit in the Big Apple, even before you get your hands in the soil.

A Horse Named "Buckwheat"

From: Rogi Riverstone

What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...