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Caption: Soprano Victoria de los Angeles
Spanish art songs inspired by Spanish folk songs. Adaptations, arrangements, and inspirations of Spanish songs from the 15th - 21st centuries.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUCO, WCQS, KMUN, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 33
Caption: Detail from Picasso's Gernika (Guernica)
We commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica (April 26, 1937) with “Guernica” Piano Trio number 1 by Octavio Vá...

Bought by WCQS, WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 39
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...

  • Added: May 13, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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David Holt: Sharing His Love of Mountain Music For Over Four Decades

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Glenn & Lula Bolick, NC Heritage Award Winners

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Despite his amazing legacy, Billy Preston is nearly forgotten in the mainstream and is not in the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame. Author Steve Bergsman d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Magen David Synagogue in Kolkata, India, Credit: Ashok Sinha
A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Maybe pay phones really do encourage time travel.

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCT


  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 2
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The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of April (4/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a crooning cowboy who sang both English and Spanish.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
To folk music scholars, a style of folk music represents a specific group of people, but also has relationships with surrounding cultures. For a lo...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and WAMU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2011
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2