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Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
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- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
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- Added: Mar 15, 2022
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For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
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- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
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It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 10:00
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First of four short segments featuring Yusuf/Cat Stevens with excerpts of new songs from Tell 'Em I'm Gone as featured on NPR First Listen.
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- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 05:32
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Bob Dylan biographers Sid Griffin, Clinton Heylin and Greil Marcus begin this series on Dylan's The Basement Tapes with the Band by calling it "a m...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 05:57
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- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 13:12
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- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 12:03
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- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 17:42
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For the second week of September (9/14): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman recalls an unexpected incident that helped propel the state`s punk music ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Ten 75-second modules to celebrate Roy Orbison's would-be 75th birthday in 2011 (birthday is 4/23/1936).
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- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 12:30
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Shirley Sneve speaks with Navajo singer Louie Gonnie.
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- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 10:37
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Whether the music of ancient Greece touches modern Greek Music.
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 13:38
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 12:01
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Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with producer Sean Hutchinson about his work on the new documentary For the Generations: Native Story and Performance.
- Added: Jun 17, 2010
- Length: 12:58
