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For the third week of September (9/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who straddled both political and cul...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
For the third week of March (3/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a blues legend who also made some of the first know...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of February (2/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing group that was founded in the 1800s b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:33
For the third week of January (1/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who played auto harp and sang folksongs b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of January (1/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female R&B artist who is a triple th...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of November (11/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was born the son of a former slave...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of June (6/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the epicenter of Houston’s “Summer of Love.”
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at some musicians who really knew how to honk their horns.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of May (5/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the “other Carter Family” of American roots music.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of January (1/29): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a jazz musician who gained fame playing country mu...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 57:44
![Caption: Alan Lomax with unidentified man. [Library of Congress photo]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/125825/lomax1_square.jpg)
Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 4
Who says 13 is unlucky? We’ve made it this far and are so thankful to have done so! For thirteen, we travel to just north of Tucson, AZ to intervie...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 27:57
- Purchases: 1
Steve Tatko explains how he ended up with a bioler operator's license.
- Added: Jul 02, 2008
- Length: 03:09
The story what happens to the belongings of someone who dies
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 03, 2008
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 2
Monty talks about cleaning latrines in Vietnam while sitting in a communal hot tub.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Nov 29, 2006
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 15, 2006
- Length: 57:13
- Purchases: 1
