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6 works, including DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Kent Nagano.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including WALKER: Lyric for Strings. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including RAVEL: Tzigane: Rhapsodie de concert. London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado; Salvatore Accardo, violin.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including RAVEL: Tzigane: Rhapsodie de concert. London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado; Salvatore Accardo, violin.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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We’ll wrap up Stevie Wonder Month on Soulsations! We celebrate the legendary musician who turned 74 on May 13th. Wonder’s childhood friend, John ...

Bought by WGZS, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, KSLU, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 6
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Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KIYU-FM, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KHEN-LP, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we pay tribute to singer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo, Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
This program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap and celebrate the Black artists and innovators who built--and continue to buil...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This Hip Deep episode presents the stunning radio premiere of "Oh, David," the traditional song of the annual Easter Rock in Winnsboro, Louisiana.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This program explores the history of African-American string bands, with music and memories from a special guest: the late string maestro Howard Ar...

Bought by WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, WCUW 91.3 FM, KUPR low power FM, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This week on Afterglow, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer Williams and Clarence Willi...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dom Flemons
In honor of Black History Month, OHR pays tribute to African Americans’ profound contribution to American music. Forged into the roots of blues, j...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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This Hip Deep episode presents the stunning radio premiere of "Oh, David," the traditional song of the annual Easter Rock in Winnsboro, Louisiana.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, WCUW 91.3 FM, High Plains Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A look at the historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert and its 1939 follow up, featuring performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by WUTC, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by KCBX, KVCR, KZYX, Morehead State Public Radio, KUAC and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11