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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNED Buffalo, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values. But that wasn’t always the case.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KXCV, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
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These days, a lot of feminism is framed around young women rebelling against their mothers’ values.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
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This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTJU, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9, WJCU, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In the mid-20th century, American women were bombarded with tips, tricks, and goods to help them become the perfect housewife.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin joins in the adventures a middle-aged royal who refuses to grow old gracefully in Corsage.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KKRN


  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - They’ve been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake, but witches are still practicing the craft. We take you fr...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:58
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The name Beverly Kenney might be a footnote in jazz history, but this singer had an intelligent, alluring and melancholic style that’s among the be...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1