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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to the virtuosic Thomas "blind Tom" Wiggins. Born a slave, Blind Tom was an amazingly talented American music...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, Angela introduces us to Undine Smith Moore, the "dean of black women composers." Moore was a prolific and talented composer and ar...
Bought by WNMU-FM and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, Joshua introduces us to composer and educator, George Walker. Known for his wide musical vocabulary, Walker is a pulitzer winning ...
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- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to the composer and multi-intrumentalist Evelyn Simpson Curenton, and we hear an excerpt of her work, "O'Glory."
Bought by WNMU-FM and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Angela introduces Moses Hogan, a 20th century American composer noted for his arrangements of spirituals.
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- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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On this episode, Joshua introduces Robert Nathaniel Dett and his piece "Honey" from his "In the Bottoms" Suite. The piece evokes scenes and moods o...
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- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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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.
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Ben Vinarski and Reese McMichael venture to an abandoned hot...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 10:59
A musical history of the "Prince of Motown Marvin" Gaye is the subject of this program.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 56:04
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Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...
Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Women-owned businesses generated over $1.6 trillion in sales in 2017, but they still make up less than 2/5ths of all privately held companies. But,...
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 04:20
This time we profile The Howlin’ Wolf, who made his debut on the Billboard R&B charts in 1951.
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who first recorded with an electric guitar, this week in 1941.
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Professor Longhair, who first recorded a beloved Mardi Gras classic, this week in 1949.
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Henry Thomas, whose two dozen recordings for Vocalion, made in the late 1920s, hark back to a time before the blues.
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica ace Junior Wells — who was in the studio laying down some classic tracks for Delmark Records, this week in 1965.
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Little Richard and Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who, at first anyway, wasn’t too impressed by Little Richard.
- Added: Apr 06, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile blues piano mystery man, Black Bob — who was in the studio this week with Memphis Minnie, in 1935.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Woodrow Adams, who made his recording debut in Memphis, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Wilbert Harrison, who landed at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 — but created a headache for producer Bobby Robinson.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica wizard Little Walter, who cut "the national anthem of blues harmonica," this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at one historic day of recording — May 5th, 1937 — that changed the course of blues history.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
