PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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- Added: Jan 22, 2009
- Length: 18:36
Will Shade, founder of the popular Memphis Jug Band, buried in a pauper's grave had no headstone, until 2008.
- Added: May 08, 2008
- Length: 03:26
A profile of a centuries-old martial art with roots that go back to Angola, Africa
- Added: Apr 03, 2008
- Length: 18:30
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 03:28
- Added: Jan 29, 2008
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 1
This short piece talks with pianist Art Neville and drummer John Boudreaux about the Mardi Gras standard "Mardi Gras Mambo."
- Added: Jan 18, 2008
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 2
A short documentary featuring pianist Art Neville and bassist George Porter Jr. about the Mardi Gras standard "Indian Red."
Bought by KSLU, WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KREV-LP
- Added: Jan 18, 2008
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 4
A Buffalo Soldier comes alive through a Yosemite park ranger
- Added: Dec 11, 2007
- Length: 08:49
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 05:40
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about great musicians who never left town
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 07:36
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about DC's Lincoln Theater and meeting Fats Waller
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 06:30
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about their first music teacher
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 06:50
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about encounters with Jelly Roll Morton & Lester Young
Bought by Radio Catskill and WCVE
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 08:01
- Purchases: 2
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about great musicians who never left town
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 07:34
Explanation of the tradition of choral singing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Bought by WTIP, WEFT, KXOT Public Radio, and WBHM
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 4
Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama talks about gospel singing
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
How the blues grew and changed
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
Overview of how the Blues became the most important music to develop in Ameica in the 20th century
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
A short doc exploring the curious legacy of a "racial cleansing" in a small Kentucky town.
Bought by WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: May 14, 2007
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 3
