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A postcard from Cuzco, Peru.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
A postcard from Curitiba, Brazil.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Our ability to hear is fully formed after just four and a half months in the womb. From this early age, sound shapes our worldview. Jim McKee, a so...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 1
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Making sense of my father and our estranged relationship with the music he left me.
- Added: Feb 26, 2021
- Length: 04:43
A fountain of youth, Hermeto Pascoal, a clock store - written and recorded by Eleanor Tullock
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 20:00
Investigating subversion - written and voiced by Emily Pratt.
Emily and I get trapped in a necropolis in São Paulo, then speak to bassists Joe Lal...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 25:31
A quest to find the difference between a hobo, a tramp and a bum. We head to the train yard and ask around. Then, receive some clues on a cassette ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 19:42
The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 54:04
From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlin joins us t...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
Music serves as a poignant metaphor in this set of poetry.
Bought by Royalton Community Radio
- Added: Sep 12, 2020
- Length: 01:01:57
- Purchases: 1
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark p...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Aug 28, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 17:05
When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:40
The madrigal offered composers a means to break the strict rules of counterpoint and harmony in order to serve a dramatic end; an important concept...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
The no-clapping-between-movements rule in a classical concert was created for a bad reason. So we’re gonna kill it -- you and me and Emanuel Ax.
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 23:26
Years after dismissing it in college, an aging white music professor discovers that hip hop is where the real creative genius is happening in music...
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 21:45
Explore the influence the Reformation and Counter-Reformation had on the world of music including the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Explore the development of imitation, or canon, as a tool of harmony and musical in the works of Josquin Deprez and Johannes Ockeghem.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1