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‘Disco Demolition Night’, the brainchild of 24 year-old shock jock Steve Dahl, caused mass hysteria at Comiskey Park, Chicago on 12th July, 1979 – ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:43
From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...
Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 3
Shapenote and the Sacred Harp songbook are still allowing people to share a musical experience until this day. Learn more about this tradition from...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 18:00
- Purchases: 1
They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 06:14
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: 15:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: 15:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: 13:51
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 29, 2008
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 18, 2007
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 18, 2007
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 05:40
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
And explanation and a demonstration of Cajun music
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 2
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: 06:26
- Purchases: 1
Nanci Griffith and her music explain the Texas Troubador tradition
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
