PRX - Pieces for Format: Essay
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Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Is there such a thing as true silence?
Bought by KALW, WZEN.org, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound and more
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 33:33
So ... who was Amy Beach? Simply one of the greatest American composers many of us have never heard.
- Added: Dec 03, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...
Bought by KWIT
- Added: May 19, 2008
- Length: 21:27
- Purchases: 1
The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR
- Added: May 17, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 5
From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.
Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2005
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 11
