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On this episode, Joshua introduces William Grant Still, the "dean of black music." We hear an excerpt of Still's work "Ringplay," on piano.
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- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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Live longer, healthier and happier with daily doses of positive thought and feeling medicine.
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 03:00
We talk with social justice scholar Monique Morris about her new book, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brow...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
The Southside Aces specializes in New Orleans music, and that means they prepare big time for Mardi Gras. Interviewer Phil Nusbaum sat down to talk...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 08:00
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 53:59
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For the past 20-years, Gordon Whitman has been working with the group Faith in Action where he is the deputy director. His job is teaching people h...
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- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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Romance novelists Kristen Proby & Jennifer Ryan discuss their critics, success, and character development. They also read short selections from the...
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- Added: Jan 10, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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Former evangelical preacher-turned-atheist tells his story and his hope for understanding between evangelicals and atheists.
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
“We could be having so much fun that there just isn't time to consume resources on a quantity, or produce waste on a quantity that would be problem...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 28:30
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A true inspiration for jazz networking and blues radio: The “Cookers,” a couple of whom are Donald Harrison and Cecil McBee, comprise a recording a...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 01:59:59
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Led Zeppelin visited the BBC 5 times. This new release catalogues every performance. Hear Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones take you thr...
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- Added: Sep 26, 2016
- Length: 52:19
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- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
This week's show featured new music from Mercury Prize winning group Young Fathers, Zero 7, Janelle Monae, and Action Bronson.
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 02:00:47
This week's show featured new music from Hiatus Kaiyote, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Wale.
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 02:01:09
Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 02:16
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
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
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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Cathy Byrd connects with Jennifer Ray, a contemporary artist from North Carolina based in Berlin, to talk about Jennifer's creative life abroad.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 16:26
Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc., and author of “The Organic Manifesto. Maria...
- Added: Mar 25, 2012
- Length: 28:00
Includes Stones songs from the 90's, Cuts from Chuck Leavell's Back To The Woods including a double shot of Chuck and Little Brother Montgomery doi...
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- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 58:44
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A look at the Stones' output post 2000. Otis Redding on the Stones Roots and the Stones do Ray Charles on the Double Shot. Mick Jagger is the sol...
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- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 59:43
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Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
sometimes a show will transcend mere humanity to elevate us all to a primal state of enlightenment.
(either way,it's got a good beat and you can da...
- Added: Oct 16, 2011
- Length: 01:52:11
"If you thought Melrose Place was hot, wait until you move to Anacostia."
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 04:10
