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When washboard was King. Well, that may be a stretch, but the popularity of that musical instrument, when it was used as such, reached a height in...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Ah, summer, the shortest season of the year. Or, at least it seems that way. This show is devoted to a few really hot bands and vocalists who guar...
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- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
This program is devoted to those pioneers of jazz piano from Scott Joplin to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.
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- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Bobby speaks, from a boat, off the coast of Shell Island, located in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, with Tobia Spinelli, Ben Coletti and a co...
- Added: Jun 02, 2013
- Length: 01:19:14
Original stride pianist James P. Johnson began his professional recording career in 1916 with the Aeolian Company by recording several piano rolls....
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- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...
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- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Author and philosopher Jean Houston offers a guidepost into the world of Dorothy and L Frank Baum in which she delves into the deeper messages held...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 27:55
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...
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- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses her Christianity in the context of her academic career… and her marriage to a one time climate skeptic...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 23:18
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 49:30
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Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 4
Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 2
Listen to at least 15 minutes of the music and ask yourself " How could i possibly deprive my community and listening audience from this wonderful...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Cathy Byrd recorded this Fresh Talk episode when she visited The MacDowell Colony, a highly regarded New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers and...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 12:33
On this episode of The Conscious Consultant Hour w/Sam Liebowitz: Unlock your inner secrets and find your true self & purpose w/psychic medium Mink...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:00:35
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 2
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets Luci Westphal, a German filmmaker based in New York and Berlin, to talk about Luci's moving postcards and her latest do...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 19:17
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...
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- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 03:50
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, co-author of "Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun, " which the (Minnea...
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 19:04
- Purchases: 2
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 12:26
