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For the fourth week of November (11/22): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who grew from Hispanic, Anglo and A...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of November (11/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an eclectic Texas musician who continues to defy...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of September (9/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who certainly did his share of shouting.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of December (12/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the pioneers of chicano blues.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the first week of January (1/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a music teacher who helped establish the oldest co...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of July (7/26): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the Lone Star State’s very first female reco...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of August (8/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child star who took control of her own musical ca...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of November (11/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who built cars and painted houses wh...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of April (4/18): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped inspire the creation of one of the...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of March (3/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a performance that signaled certain death to its aud...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of June (6/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a wandering performer who left a lasting mark on Te...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of March (3/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing schoolteacher whose hit song landed him in...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of October (10/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an accomplished songwriter who is probably best...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
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For the third week of September (9/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a traveling folklorist who encountered everyone...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of August (8/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the original “Mr. T.”

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of July (7/29): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a classically-trained musician who was best known for...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of April (4/11): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a venue that brought world-class entertainment to ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of August (8/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a country singer who found his fortune at the bre...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:38
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Sound-rich documentary about Hmong-Americans living in the U.S.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WESM 91.3 FM, KWIT, KHEN-LP, KUNM and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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David Brown explains Brazilian music's love/hate relationship with the global stage.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
Caption: Jason Keoni Verity opened the first awa (kava) bar in Hawaii, Credit: The Honolulu Advertiser
For centuries, the kava plant has played an important role in many Pacific Island cultures, where it's valued for its natural calming effects. In ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 08:06
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Jazz was born in Kansas City during the prohibition, but what happens when 1920s-era hangout stops serving liquor?

  • Added: May 02, 2007
  • Length: 06:46
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Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...

Bought by PRX Remix, Here and Now, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, The Nature Podcast, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Feb 13, 2007
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 4