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Pulitzer100: Natasha Tretheway On Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1467 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/12/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A blistering Lee Morgan on trumpet sets the ambiance for singers Leah Natale, Cecile Hortensia and Mark Murphy, rhythm makers could be Charles Lewi...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and KVRZ


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw #1449 11-06-14 (Hours 1 & 2)
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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November the party is on! Exclaims our vocalist of the hour(s) Luciana Souza. Cedar Walton also appears both as pianist and composer, aiding Art Bl...

Bought by WYAP and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 2
Multi Ethnic Theater: Finding common ground through theater
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Cast of Multi Ethnic Theater's "Jitney"
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1442 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/18/2014
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Fabulous funk in Fred Wesley and Jimmy McGriff, genius in soul with a sanctified Milt Jackson appearing each hour. Big bands meet myriad rhythms i...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:54
  • Purchases: 2
Liner Notes: Charlie Rouse
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and much sought-after sideman. He is known primarily for his collaboration with Thelonious...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Artist, Nick Cave
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Nick Cave, chosen to participate in the U.S. State Department's Arts-in-Embassies program, talks about his Sound Suits, a unique blend of sculpture...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 23: The Poets of Cooper Street Correctional Facility
From: Narrative Arts
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Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:25
PPW 22: Living in the D.: Shaun Moore-Bey
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Shaun Moore-Bey is a poet, activist, and regular on the Detroit spoken-word circuit. He is working to be a cultural force for his community.

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 21: Prison Creative Arts Project
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Prison Creative Arts Project
The Prison Creative Art Project (PCAP) brings together artist from inside and outside the prison walls of Michigan to create a vibrant arts communi...

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 19: Patrick Mathieu
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Patrick Mathieu
Patrick Mathieu is a New York city based artist who majored in dance at City College of New York and had a successful career as a performer. Then, ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 18: Workshop with Judith Tannenbaum
From: Narrative Arts
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Judith has taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Correction...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 07:27
PPW 11: Broadside Press
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Broadside Press
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920 ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 13: Workshop with Buzz Alexander
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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We asked poet Buzz Alexander of University of Michigan's Prison Creative Art Project to record a poetry workshop for us. Prison Poetry Workshop ha...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 10: New Orleans
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Join the Prison Poetry Workshop as we travel to New Orleans and join a group of prison poets who are taking on Walt Whitman.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 05: Patrick Young Story
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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We met dozens of poets behind bars in our nation's prisons and we sat with formerly incarcerated people like Native New Orleanian, Patrick Young, w...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
PPW - Alabama: Black Birds Singing
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 4
Cab Calloway
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Cab Calloway
Singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab Calloway is often referred to as the “hi- di -hi- di-ho” man. His nonsensical sounds and improvised melodies ma...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Art Tatum
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Art Tatum
Self taught pianist, Art Tatum is acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. Listen as Rabbi Neil discusses the life of the inn...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ella Fitzgerald
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Ella Fitzgerald
Coming from a troubled childhood, Ella Fitzgerald found solace in music and song. Discovered at age 17, after singing in the style of the Boswell s...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Christian McBride
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:39
  • Purchases: 4
KUT's Views and Brews: Charles Mingus and The Art of Enigma
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Charles Mingus
Join us for lively discussion and great live music as KUT's Rebecca McInroy and rabbi Neil Blumofe take a look back at the life and artistry of the...

Bought by Radio Catskill and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Affrilachian Poets
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...

Bought by WJCT, WMMT, KUER, KRZA, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
A Conversation with Robert Battle.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. [33:04]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 33:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Physics of Dance: Step by Step
From: With Good Reason
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Step dancing has become popular among black Greek organizations and is part of a tradition that goes back to African tribal rituals. It also is a w...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00