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For the last week of April (4/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a famous ballad singer who also blended honky tonk w...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of April (4/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the son of a former slave who helped inspire a Texa...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a migrant farmworker who helped revolutionize conj...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of February (2/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a honkey tonk legend whose health problems almos...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of November (11/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a classic Texas dance hall that that has becom...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of October (10/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an immigrants son who helped popularize an unof...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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For the third week of April (4/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a natural disaster that inspired a folk anthem.

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a songwriter who entertained audiences in European ca...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of August (8/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneer of barrelhouse piano who started his car...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of July (7/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an accordion player who squeezed a lot of music int...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of march (3/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a special evening when the “Boss” showed up early f...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
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For the fourth week of February (2/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child prodigy whose tastes ranged from classi...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the fourth week of January (1/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the most successful yet least well-known ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the second week of January (1/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who preferred to let others have the spotli...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of July (7/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who proved that it’s not such a small wor...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of July (7/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an alley cat who wrote hits for some of country music...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of May(5/18): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who was turned down by a number of night cl...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of July(7/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child prodigy who helped launch one of the state’s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 2
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

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  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
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The violent pastime known as bull baiting entertained the wealthy and poor alike and shaped the breed we now know as the bulldog.

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fats Domino in J&M Studios
New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1