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StudioTalk No. 2: Music awareness by Love… from Love to Music... with Sarod player Ranajit Sengupta (Kolkata)

From: ElJay Arem
Series: IMC - India meets Classic presents... StudioTalks

The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...

Added: Jun 19, 2012
Length: 58:01

Radiohead's Thom Yorke on Wankers & Confronting Who You Are

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

Thom Yorke, lead singer and songwriter for the band Radiohead, tackles the challenges that just about everyone faces: confronting who you are and ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jun 08, 2012
Length: 06:00
Purchases: 1

"Where Have All The Protest Songs Gone? ( The Times..and Songs..They Are 'a Changin')

From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series

A selective survey of how protest songs have changed from anthems to personal statements...told thru narration, music and soundbites..from Paul Fis...

Added: May 10, 2012
Length: 57:59

Bay Area Beats: Jazz legend Bobby Hutcherson tells his story

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats

For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...

Added: Mar 02, 2012
Length: 09:57

Page Wilson: Into the Blue

From: Charles McGuigan

Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

Added: Oct 24, 2011
Length: 52:46

Lady E: Two Times A Child

From: Charles McGuigan

Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...

Added: Oct 15, 2011
Length: 56:36

The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr

Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Sep 22, 2011
Length: 05:05
Purchases: 1

Texas Music Matters featuring Janis Joplin

From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters

Texas Music Matters revisits an award-winning documentary honoring "The Queen of Rock and Roll and Psychedelic Soul" Janis Joplin. Join Kris Kristo...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, Marfa Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Jun 24, 2011
Length: 57:31
Purchases: 3

Native Sounds: Quese Imc

From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds

Tobias Grant (Omaha) speaks with Native Hip Hop artist Quese Imc.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM

Added: Jun 23, 2011
Length: 09:04
Purchases: 2

Remixing Grandma's Voice

From: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs

Caption: My grandmother as an infant, Credit: Family collection

When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix

Added: May 26, 2011
Length: 02:12
Purchases: 3

Theme Songs

From: ayme frye

A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.

Added: Mar 29, 2011
Length: 03:24

Your Singing Really Interferes With My Going-To-Sleep Process

From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time

A music teacher tries to stop her newborn’s crying with lullabies. Turns out it’s the worst thing she can do.

Bought by WABE, KPIK-LP, KALW, The Story, KUOW and more

Added: Jan 05, 2011
Length: 07:45
Purchases: 6

Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin

From: KUT

Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more

Added: Oct 01, 2010
Length: 57:31
Purchases: 20

Crescent City Blues

From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues

Caption: Patrons at Young at Heart Club in New Orleans' Pigeontown neighborhood., Credit: Barry Yeoman

Crescent City Blues takes listeners to the hidden world of New Orleans corner joints—bars far from the French Quarter, in neighborhoods like Centra...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KCMJ Community Radio, Radio New Zealand, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Added: Sep 24, 2010
Length: 55:00
Purchases: 19

That Barbershop Chord

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.

Added: Jun 07, 2010
Length: 06:14

Vinyl Record Return

From: City High Radio

A teenager who loves vinyl records sets out to discover why so many others love vinyl and why there is a vinyl record revival taking place.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: May 26, 2010
Length: 06:28
Purchases: 1

Kevin Keller's Ambient Chamber Music

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death ...

Added: May 06, 2010
Length: 03:30

Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk

From: Open Source

Christopher Lydon is in conversation hour with Robin Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His superb biog...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, KFOK-LPFM, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Apr 29, 2010
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 5

Ludovico Einaudi's Nightbook

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He's a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his nati...

Added: Feb 25, 2010
Length: 03:30

A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Americana Pulls up its Roots

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland American sounds from folk, blues and country. But recently, Americ...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Dec 18, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

An Interview With Baaba Maal

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL