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Mountains in Harmony (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Frank Newsome is a former coal miner in Appalachia. He's also an Old Regular Baptist preacher and singer of lined-out hymnody who influenced Ralph...

Bought by Southern Branch Bluegrass, WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
Mountains in Harmony (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Frank Newsome is a former coal miner in Appalachia. He's also an Old Regular Baptist preacher and singer of lined-out hymnody who influenced Ralph...

Bought by WSGE, WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, 'The Sea', WLIW and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Mountains in Harmony (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Frank Newsome is a former coal miner in Appalachia. He's also an Old Regular Baptist preacher and singer of lined-out hymnody who influenced Ralph ...

Bought by WSGE, KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
AMOS 20.28: Varying Perceptions of Pitch, 2/7/2020
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Varying Perceptions of Pitch

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
Spectrum 01/21/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Close your eyes, open your heart, and join our experiment on music and emotions - What do you get when you mix three D...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 12/17/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Don't open until Christmas - Want to give the perfect gift, but also receive it? There's some surprisingly rich science...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 11/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Change yourself - A new romantic partner changes everything, doesn’t it? Not according to a study on Germans. Also, a stre...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 03/26/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Sometimes it gets dark before it gets light - Want to feel joy? Listen to death metal, says a surprising new study. Also o...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 19.065: Mpingo, the Music Tree, 4/1/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Mpingo, the Music Tree

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Spectrum 11/27/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Remember December? - It may just be the "Most wonderful time of the year," but Christmas shopping can act like cocaine on ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Doors of Perception
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Stay Human
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A physicist and a jazz musician walk into a bar... Well, actually, into KAXe's studio: Sam Miltichand Aaron Wenger talk on Stay Human, about making...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:26
The Neuroscience of Singing
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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If you've ever wondered why you break out into song and dance when music comes on we have the science and research to answer that very question!

Bought by WOUB, WYAP, KRSC, Goat Radio, and KWIT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
257: After 30 Years of Prozac / 258: The Revenge of Analog, 3/24/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "After 30 Years of Prozac" - Happy 30th birthday Prozac. We've had three decades of the drug, so why are we still depressed? HOUR TWO: ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:56
Glacially Cool Music (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
The Alaskan wilderness is experiencing a major meltdown, but not all will be lost. Thanks to a musician in Virginia, the sounds of Alaska’s glacier...

Bought by KENW and WOUB


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Renée Fleming: Music's Ability to Heal
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Renee Fleming with Hartmut Hoell, Credit: Bob Millard
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.

Bought by KZUM, KVNF, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 3
Pop Music Redux
From: Susanne Bard
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Powerful computer tools are helping musicologists study the evolution of popular music.

Bought by KMUD, WABE, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Aaron Leeder Compositions8
From: Aaron Leeder
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download and stream available at http://aaronleeder.bandcamp.com/album/feelings

  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 12:03
Composer Cosmology
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
As astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson learn more about the cosmos and present their often strange and wondrous findings to the public, the cr...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:30
At children's hospital, kids find comfort in music therapy
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Oliver Jacobson is a music therapist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Here, he plays a session with one of his patients, Maia Mead, Credit: Liz Mak
Oliver Jacobson started playing violin when he was six years old. At 18, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music, one of the top music schools in t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Musical Creativity
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Thelonious Monk, Credit: Library of Congress
Musical creativity could be good for the aging brain.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
15: Music and Memory (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: The Crossroads Project (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Art and science meet at the crossroads in this program focused on climate change, sustainability, and the future of our planet and ourselves. This...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 25:07
WorldCanvass: The Crossroads Project (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Art and science meet at the crossroads in this program focused on climate change, sustainability, and the future of our planet and ourselves. The ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 22:54
Pilot Episode - "Any Given Command"
From: Clapping Monkey Productions
Series: Warren Krane
Caption: Warren Krane
Commander Warren Krane and the crew of the Peregrine arrive at Hermitage Station in a remote region of space to attend an Officer's Ball where the ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 21:58
21: Nick Zammuto
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The Books were known for making use of sounds and audio samples that aren’t typically heard in music. The Books disbanded in 2012, but Nick Zammuto...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1