PRX - Pieces for Tone: Intimate
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African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 10:12
Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to comm...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
To Dr. Michael White, it's not just a clarinet, but a time machine.
“I listened to Johnny Dodds’ recordings. I listened to Sidney Bechet. I listen...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Nov 09, 2017
- Length: 52:12
- Purchases: 1
Author and illustrator Ashley Bryan talks about his new book, “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life,” his experie...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 18:02
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 4
Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. [33:04]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 33:04
- Purchases: 1
In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem, fans and well-wishers gathered to pay tribute to Michael Jackson.
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: 02:07
