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140913 New Orleans Music and Few Words About Cosimo Matassa
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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At its heart, my show is about presenting music absent its racial components. For instance, we focus on music from the 1950s to 1979s when musicia...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:35
Restorative Justice: Reconciling Face to Face
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face...it can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly has...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
140614 Pirate Ship Bike and Morse Sugar
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Collector's music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s. All the music from just before the first rock and roll song because once ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:30
The John Sebastian Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
Touch Tours for the Visually Impaired at the Penn Museum
From: Taylor Duffy
Caption: Visitors on a Touch Tour, Credit: Trish Maunder
Touch Tours

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
130331 Gee Whiz, How Many Joe and Jim Musicians Will We Hear?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of including Anita Humes and the Essex.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:29
StoryCorps: Philip and Susan McClinton
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Biologists Susan and Philip McClinton talk about the unlikely beginning of their romance

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
The National Riding Association
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The real NRA fights for our right to keep recklessly driving cars.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:10
Form
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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A form created by randomly opening up and reading a thesaurus. Form.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Jay Salinas of Wormfarm
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Farmer and artist, Jay Salinas talks about Wormfarm, the inventive organization he co-founded where art, agriculture, community, and creativity blo...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
Trumpet Man
From: jeff resnick
Series: Stories in Sound
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I am a documentarian, chronicling the lives of performing musicians. As a writer, I am obligated to put their words to paper. As a story-teller, I ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 42:23
  • Purchases: 1
My Mother vs. The Streets
From: Radio Rookies
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In the past, hanging out with boys has gotten Jacuyra into trouble. But as a 16-year-old who doesn't often think about the consequences of her acti...

Bought by KUT, KVNF, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 5
The Needle Drop: Sunset Rubdown
From: Anthony Fantano
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This week, the soundtrack sounds of God Help the Girl and the brave pop ballads of Sunset Rubdown.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Swing Free
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A look into the hidden world of Swingers.

Bought by KUT, SALTcast Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
Besides Life Here
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What happens when the most important event in your whole life is something no one believes?

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, WMPG and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 8
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
The Last Gangster of Matinicus
From: Courtney Stein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Revenge comes to an island in the form of raccoons.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 1
Modeles, sonata for bass clarinet and piano
From: Ivan Ferrer Orozco
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Contemporary music for bass clarinet and piano

  • Added: May 08, 2007
  • Length: 08:58
Chain (structure 5)
From: Ivan Ferrer Orozco
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Contemporary music for ensemble

  • Added: May 08, 2007
  • Length: 09:00
Our Window
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A magical view from a window includes the dark side of nature.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
BEATLES BABES (various female artists cover the Beatles)
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Various female artists (older & new) cover the Beatles!

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
American Jews in the IDF: One Day at the Border Crossing
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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An IDF soldier detains a Palestinian family at a border crossing and comes to an epiphany.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2006
  • Length: 09:56
Art-O-Mat
From: Adam Allington
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Cigarette vending machines converted to sell art

Bought by PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX, and WHQR


  • Added: Jul 30, 2004
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4
A Small Southern Town: The Nation's Capital In Slave Times
From: Richard Paul
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Dramatization - largest mass-escape of slaves in Amer history - PROMOS ATTACHED

Bought by WJAB, WAMU, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX to iTunes, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2004
  • Length: 54:10
  • Purchases: 29