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On today’s show we partnered with a young artist named Summer Blake, studying film & television at Drexel University. Summer had the opportunity ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
Caption: Little Richard
Celebrating one of the founders of Rock ‘n Roll, Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard with a mix of his music, interviews, covers and ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and KHNS


  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 3
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The story of a shy teenager who wanted to meet the man of her dreams. Or at the very least, a straight guy. But some things are easier dreamed than...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 19:49
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audio postcard or sonic id describing koolaid pickles from 4th graders in Helena, Arkansas

  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:58
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On September 11, 1970, Jimi Hendrix gave an interview to Keith Altham. A week later Hendrix was dead. This was his final interview. It's Hendrix on...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7
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Andrew White may very well be the most famous jazz legend... you've never heard of.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:00
Caption: Willie "the Lion" Smith
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
Caption: Louis Armstrong
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Josephine Baker
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
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Sen. Spencer Coggs addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison March 12, 2011

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:04
Caption: Charlie and Donna In The Kitchen At Donna's
An internationally acclaimed jazz bar in New Orleans where the entertainment on the musical stage was often rivaled by the entertainment behind the...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 12:53
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There seems to be an obsession with youth that is prevalent in Hip-Hop culture today. Its originators are now in their thirties and fourties, yet t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 15:14
  • Purchases: 1
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PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 57:43
Caption: ZZ Packer, Credit: Marion Ettlinger
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 56:17
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Insight (no spoilers!) on Spike Lee's latest film, A Miracle at St. Anna

  • Added: Sep 26, 2008
  • Length: 02:58
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How "Burn Baby Burn" went from war cry to hot sauce.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2005
  • Length: 01:39