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Caption: marian-anderson-the-lincoln-memorial-concert-1939, Credit: courtesy of national film preservation foundation
Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30 minute concert that helped move a nation forward.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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In his plays, Shakespeare alluded to songs his audience would know. Today we don't know those songs so we don't get a lot of the references.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dom Flemons/Prospect Hill, Credit: Official Album Cover
Dom Flemons interprets traditional music with a distinct rhythmic drive, using instruments like bones and quills.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 30:49
  • Purchases: 2
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
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News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) New York Times music and film critic Stephen Holden covered the 1970s singer/...

Bought by KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Roger McGuinn tells Brian Bahouth about his early days learning instruments and songs at the Old Town School of Music in Chicago, the formation of ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:51
Caption: Collection 1 - Fillmore East, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Eric Clapton, Oct. 24, 1970. Clapton's new band, Derek & the Dominos, will play the Fillmore East immediately followi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
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A common historical myth is that Native Americans were an “oral people” who didn't engage in literacy. But one scholar argues that Native Americans...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Aaron Neville News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) Grammy-winning R&B /soul singer Aaron Neville has been a radio ...

Bought by KUOW, KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Noted music and arts journalist Marc Myers examines some of the forces that help explain the development of the sounds and styles of jazz in his ne...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
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The organ legend "Joey D" talks about working with Larry Coryell and Jimmy Cobb, as well as the influence of Miles Davis on his trumpet playing.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:19
Caption: Adam Shankman, San Francisco, CA 5/30/32, Credit: Andrea Chase
Adam Shankman talks existential clarity, the economics of musical cinema, and joy, joy, joy.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 12:50
Caption: (Left to right): Dennis Burke, Keni Burke, Jerome Bailey, Alohe Burke, Clarence Burke, Sr. , Clarence Burke, Jr., James Burke III , Credit: Buddah Records 1971 album "The Stairsteps"
This is the story of THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS from an original member Dennis Burke. He tells her story and discusses her life in a rare interview.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 52:41
Caption: Josh White
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 54:13
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Musicians' impact on the Movement.

Bought by WVAS, WVAS, WABE, WVAS, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
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EMI engineers gather at book launch party

  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 26:23