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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:06
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A word on sound quality: We're still recording remotely. Just pretend Amy is on the moon, reporting from her own personal spaceship. Besides the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator at Vesterheim, The National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center
On this episode of Culture Clique we’re talking about the power of silver, especially when it comes to traditional Norwegian brooches and jewelry. ...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 21:41
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On this episode of Culture Clique we talk to Scot Simpson at the Winona History Center. Scot is a volunteer at the History Center and one of the mo...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 38:58
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You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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A gun store owner recounts the long history of his family's store and the historical artifacts that have come through.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:31
Caption: Free to Be....You and Me album cover (1972), Credit: Free to Be Foundation
In 2014, Free to Be... You and Me, the iconic feminist children's album, turned forty. Despite its age, the music and its message of gender equalit...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:12
Caption: A bricked door in the basement of a shop on Front Street in Missoula, MT.
No one thinks about the basements.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 19:48
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Shapenote and the Sacred Harp songbook are still allowing people to share a musical experience until this day. Learn more about this tradition from...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 18:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Floor in Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura (library of Pope Julius II). The room signifies unity, and the Star of David which has 6 points represents also the six day creation story which is in the Christian Bible (of course), so there in the floor it
A walking tour of the Vatican's floors, which are frequently made from re-purposed bits of ancient history.

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
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Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Market Street, c. 1940 (Photo: Shaping San Francisco)
Market Street is one of the oldest streets in San Francisco. And in some places, it can seem like the busiest, the loudest, the dirtiest... RICK R...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Classical music in the years before and just after the Revolution

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Classical music in American in the 19th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Classical music in American in the 20th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Social commentary in American musical theater

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Oct 18, 2007
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
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American musical theater from The Indian Princess to Rent

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Oct 18, 2007
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
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The man who brought jazz to Europe

  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:40
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And explanation and a demonstration of Cajun music

Bought by WEFT and KUT-HD


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 2
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Explanation of the tradition of choral singing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Bought by WTIP, WEFT, KXOT Public Radio, and WBHM


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 4
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Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama talks about gospel singing

Bought by KPIP-LP, WEFT, and WBHM


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 3
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And explanation and a demonstration of Zydeco music

Bought by WEFT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 1
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New Orleans Brass Band described

Bought by KUT and WEFT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 2
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James "Super Chikan" Johnson helps explain the Delta Blues

Bought by WEFT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1