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For the fourth week of August (8/24): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who began her career singing radio jingles before be...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the third week of August (8/17): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who may have been the first jazz musician ever to rec...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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For the second week of August (8/10): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a sharecropper's son who became an international country sta...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first week of August (8/3): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a German Texan who became a world famous pianist and a pioneer...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the last week of July (7/27): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who revolutionized the world of jazz before his death at...

Bought by KCSM, The Texan Radio Network, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
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For the third week of July (7/20): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who used an obscure folk instrument to help redefine...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of July (7/13): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that helped resurrect the careers of several blues...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first week of July (7/6): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was a champion rodeo rider before she became a pione...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the last week of June (6/29): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who made the first ever commercial recording in country ...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the fourth week of June (6/22): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was a Rhodes scholar, a janitor, and a helicopter ...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 3
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For the third week of June (6/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a trailblazing singer whom many have called "the ori...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of June (6/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells us about a musician who popularized one of the best known fidd...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first week of June (6/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look a Texan who was born into poverty, but became an interna...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the fourth week of May (5/25): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman honors a musician who, as a child, learned to play from blues legends Blind Lem...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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For the second week of May (5/12): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who traveled with migrant farm workers as a child, bef...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first week of May (5/5): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman traces the journey one musician made from the oil fields of West Texas, to the b...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the last week of April (4/28): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells the tale of a country music legend who began his career playing German an...

Bought by KCSM and The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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For the third week of April (4/21): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who pioneered one of Texas' most popular musical genres,...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of April (4/14): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Tejana singer who rose from humble beginnings to become a w...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first week of April (4/7): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the nation's first Country music superstar: Vernon Dalhart

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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For the last week of March (3/31): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes us back to the turn of the 20th century and tells the story of the woman ...

Bought by The Texan Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A report on grassroots organizations driving change in how big nonprofits raise funds for global causes.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 04:08
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A report on the growing number of volunteers who help out Mother Teresa's charities.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
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The Subway and its many turns on the silver screen.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1