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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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The elements that must be present in a theatrical musical

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Oct 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:50
  • 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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Chinese music that is disappearing

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
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The sounds, instruments and structures of the traditional Chinese orchestra.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 09:20
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Melding the ancient music of China with contemporary Eastern and Western motifs.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 09:44
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Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about great musicians who never left town

  • Added: Aug 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:36
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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
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The evolution of the Texas Blues

Bought by WEFT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Nanci Griffith and her music explain the Texas Troubador tradition

Bought by WEFT and WCVE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The elements that make a Blues

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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How the Blues was spread

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
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How the blues grew and changed

Bought by WABE and WCVE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Overview of how the Blues became the most important music to develop in Ameica in the 20th century

Bought by WETD and WCVE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 2
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Common themes in the Blues

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2007
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
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What music is most conducive to writing - the answer might surprise you

  • Added: Apr 15, 2007
  • Length: 02:52
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Gospel and Soul singer David Dye reports on Mavis Staples and her family's beginnings and artistic evolution.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northwest Public Broadcasting, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 09, 2006
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 5
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Host David Dye reports on soulman Al Green, the musical legend who has learned to balance the spiritual and secular in his music and his life.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., 90.5 WSNC, KCUR and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 6
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England's Linton Kwesi Johnson is the inventor of dub poetry. He's also been making reggae music about the Black experience in Great Britain since...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 3
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David Dye reports on Shemekia Copland, a young blues singer who's been compared to Koko Taylor and Tina Turner

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 6