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A Hawaiian Christmas with Slack Key Master Kapono Beamer
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Kapono Beamer, Credit: Dayna Marie Beamer
Enjoy the magic of a Hawaiian Christmas with slack key master Kapono Beamer, sharing tales of his family's holiday traditions and rich musical lega...

Bought by KALW, WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, KISU, KUAC and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 25
That's My Song: Sex (I'm a...)
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Series: That's My Song
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How a song by New Wave band Berlin, and a generous act by their lead singer, helped a young lesbian feel she wasn't alone.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Music in the Air
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KWCW, Raven Radio, KGOU, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Virtuoso Voices - Leila Josefowicz (Shostakovich the Movie)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich spent most of his entire creative life worrying about whether his government was going to send him to jail or...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Alexander Kobrin (Chopin's Nocturnal Mystery)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "Nocturne" in Classical Music refers to music for night time. Pianist Alexander Kobrin says that Chopin's Nocturnes explore and illustrate man...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 02, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Percussion is Universal)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Evelyn Glennie may be one of the only full-time percussion soloists, but she reminds us we all have some kind of drum in our past. Use this 21 sec...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 02, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 2
Classic conversation with legendary singer/songwriter Janis Ian
From: Out of Bounds
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Classic interview w/ Legendary Singer/songwriter Janis Ian discussing her long career with humor and candor

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WMNF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, WDNA and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Herbie Mann
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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A look back at the career of flutist Herbie Mann

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, and KGOU


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 3
"I woke up, I was all split open..."
From: layne garrett
Caption: PRX default Piece image
an addict kicks drugs and re-discovers his love for music

  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 06:09
Sounds Like Texas
From: KUT
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From the "Live Music Capitol of the World", a review of the best music out of Texas in the past year, and what to expect in 2006.

Bought by KERA, WBEZ, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 3
The Day John Lennon Died
From: Paul Ingles
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[An enhanced hour-long version of this program is posted here at PRX - http://www.prx.org/pieces/54843] Music fans recall how they heard the news ...

Bought by KWMR, KVSC, Prairie Public, KSRQ, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 12
South Africa's Kwaito Generation: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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Sean Cole travels to South Africa to meet the people who make kwaito, a genre of music mixing American hip-hop and South African pop styles, reflec...

Bought by CBC Inside the Music, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, WFUV, WYSO and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2005
  • Length: 01:37:42
  • Purchases: 6
Jews & Blues: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written

Bought by WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, WNIJ, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:30
  • Purchases: 13
What's the Word? The Blues as Literature
From: Modern Language Association
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Blues lyrics give us unique insight into the African American experience.

Bought by KMUN, WLIW, KMUN, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 22
The Instrumental Jazz Trio RED
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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An musical journey with R E D, the superb instrumental jazz trio of Ralph Diekemper, Dennis Alston, and Edward Jerome Carr.

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 1
Pop Trio Groove Lily
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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The Intelligent Original Songs of Pop Trio "Groove Lily"

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:59:40
  • Purchases: 1
Singer Songwriter Kierstin Gray
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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Interview/Performance by Singer/Songwriter Kierstin Gray

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:59:16
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Pianist & Composer Paul Sullivan
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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Interview/Performance by Jazz/Swing Pianist Paul Sullivan

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 01, 2004
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Stride/Blues/Ragtime Guitarist Bradley N. Litwin
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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Interview/Performance by Jazz/Swing/Ragtime Guitarist Bradley Litwin

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KFOK-LPFM, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 01, 2004
  • Length: 01:59:32
  • Purchases: 3
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55
The Times They Are A-Changin': A Radio Symposium on Bob Dylan & His Times
From: WFUV
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A unique panel discussion commemorating the 40th anniversary of Bob Dylan's historic Philharmonic Hall concert in New York City.

Bought by KTNA, KUHB, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2004
  • Length: 01:59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
From: Kerry Seed
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 7

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