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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
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
This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The children of Baptist preachers, raised in gospel music — Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke are two of the most venerated names in soul. This week, w...
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
On this episode, we’ll explore the life and career of “Mr. B” Billy Eckstine, a singer and bandleader who broke boundaries as a black icon in a seg...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, Mark Chilla talks with jazz historian Will Friedwald about the early years of Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, as they explore some...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On this Afterglow special for Black History Month, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 34:07
Celebrate Black History Month with an exploration of the songs from one of the most influential songwriting duos of the 20th century: Andy Razaf an...
Bought by KTXK, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW, Radio Catskill, WBGO and more
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
March 17th marks Nat King Cole's centennial, and on this program, we chronicle his rise to stardom in the 1940s.
Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, and WJSU
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:55
A visit to the home of Mardi Gras Indian Chief Mr. Ike
- Added: Jun 06, 2008
- Length: 04:46
- Added: Jan 29, 2008
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 07:37
- 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
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
