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Strength - Mathew Knowles found phenomenal success grooming and managing the mega group Destiny's Child. He is now handing out mics to Blush, a har...
- Added: Dec 18, 2021
- Length: 01:30
On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 45:28
We continue Black History Month with Phyllis Becker. Coordinator of the Riverfront Reading Series in Kansas City, her own publications include the ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
Contemporary and bluesy attitudes stand up well to good old funky Crusaders music. Dave Brubeck hosts Michael Brecker as Bill Evans to Stan Getz. F...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 4
It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:52
Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 56:01
- Purchases: 2
"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 6
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 3
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 54:27
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
Composer Mark Camphouse and conductor Marcellus Brown recall the time they wrote and performed a piece of music about, for and with Rosa Parks.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 28, 2005
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
Blues man Buddy Guy reflects on his favorite album, B.B King's "Live at the Regal".
Bought by Musicians' Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KDLG, Prairie Public, and KUT
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 5
