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Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.
Bought by WILL
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 56:59
- Purchases: 1
Thelonious Monk: The Jazz Giant! is a one hour program highlighting some of the best works of composer Thelonious Monk.
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 01:06:56
Thirty years ago, variety was hard to come by at Twin Cities farmers markets. But that’s changed, with many operations boasting an array of fresh f...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 04:20
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 1
Season 1.5, Episode 2
In 1968, Yvonne Bechet became one of the first female police officers in New Orleans. She was also the first African America...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Carlos Samaniego created Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Ángeles, or Mariachi Rainbow, back in 2000 for a pride event. Almost two decades later, the group...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 06:53
Hop on board Berlin’s Ringbahn, a suburban train that carries over 400,000 passengers each day and circles some of the city’s most authentic and li...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 23:41
- Purchases: 1
In the global north, the bicycle is often perceived as a toy; something for kids or designed for leisure. But in rural Uganda the bicycle can be a ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 24:01
Dmae Roberts spent a month in New Zealand and recorded sounds and interviewed people along the way leading up to the world premiere of "The Return ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2017
- Length: 10:27
In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and tour...
- Added: Nov 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Mark Erlewine may be known as the Luthier of the Stars, but his Austin workshopshop couldn't be more down to Earth. Hear the story of the man who m...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 07:29
For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 04:36
In her native Nigeria, Cynthia Dieyi is a pop singer who celebrates her culture through her music. But here in America, she's still unknown, and h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
The exuberant mural "Loop Tattoo" in downtown Chicago is now obscured by new buildings rising up around it. From Michigan Avenue and Lake Street, t...
- Added: Mar 28, 2015
- Length: 06:58
This episode discusses songs that have been used in ad campaigns (i.e. Commercials)
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Roller coasters are the workhorse of the modern theme park, but their rise to popularity has been long and strange.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 01:43
- Purchases: 1
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
If you’ve ever seen New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team, you know something about the Haka. It’s the traditional Maori warrior dance they use as a ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 2
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
Choro is a music of the people that can be found in Brazil’s bars and at barbecues. Band members of Regional de NY, a choro band from Brazil, the...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:05
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 2
Youth producers at Gorzycki Middle School discover the steel drums.
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 02:55
