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Lil B (Music Fundamental)
From: Mitch Skinner
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mitch Skinner examines the career of rapper extraordinaire Lil B.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:13
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing: "Steve gives some terrible song lyrics a new opportunity by pairing it with inherited wisdom."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by WEZU and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota: Snöbarn and an essay from Sasha Mercedes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Gaelynn Lea and Ariane Norrgard of Snöbarn
On this week's show Northern Community Radio Producer Amy Clark presents a new feature on the new Duluth band featuring Gaelynn Lea and Ariane Norr...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - Does your theme song, should you have one, send the proper message?
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
"The Legend of the Hero Bush" ( A fable from the future that may hold water today)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present. Second half: excerpts from...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 57:19
Mediterrania - taste of the music of people of Catalunya and the mediterranian shores
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: Canzioniere
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
Songs I Sing To My Kids
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown on family music.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:41
SONIC PORTRAIT: The Oud
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth producer Jennifer Gonzales interviews Charlie Lockwood about the Oud, a Middle Eastern lute, in this Sonic Portrait. Produced in part with P....

  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:09
Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
RPM Podcast #014: “Mesoamerica”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In the 14th episode of the RPM Podcast, host Ostwelve speaks with two musical architects of the Mexican Indigenous revival - Yaotl of Aztlan Underg...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KDNK


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 2
RPM Podcast #013: “Motherhood”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In Episode 13, RPM looks at Indigenous motherhood and music.

Bought by KZYX and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 2
RPM Podcast #011: “Music is the Medicine”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our 11th episode, we talk with one of the hardest working musicians on Turtle Island – Mohawk blues-rocker Derek Miller.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:40
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #010: “Electric Pow Wow”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island have been dancing and drumming for generations but, in the 21st century, that rhythmic spirit is finding ne...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #009: “Indigenous Rock”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In episode nine, RPM turns up the volume on Indigenous rock music, from metal to punk.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #008: “Singer-Songwriters”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our eighth episode, the great oral tradition of our Indigenous cultures thrives in 21st century song.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #007: “Native Hip-Hop”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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Hip-hop is one of the most popular musical genres in Indian Country. In our seventh episode, we explore why the art of hip-hop is such a strong for...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #006: “Six Nations”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora. In our sixth episode we look at the music from the Six Nations.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #003: “North Coast”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our third episode, we look up, way up, to the North Coast of Turtle Island.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 2
RPM Podcast #004: “New Traditional”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our fourth episode, RPM looks at New Traditional, beginning with the question: What is it? And how can something be new and traditional at the s...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJAB, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 49:56
  • Purchases: 6
Whitney
From: Whitney Jones
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An essay about growing up in the 80's and 90's as a male named Whitney and as a result the effect that Whitney Houston has had on my life.

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 2
Dancing with Many Voices
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this toe-tapping news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores Dancing with Many Voices, a multi-discipline dance perfor...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 26:10
"..Lights and Wires in a Box:"(JAN 2012 UPDATE AND REMIX) or.. Jon Stewart is NOT the new Edward R Murrow ...or ...Why Humorists are NOT Journalists
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In 1958, legendary journalist, Edward R. Murrow, told his colleagues that they had a choice: to use television to "teach"...or they could render te...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
The Roots of Zapateado
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth producer Alexandra Muniz researches the indigenous music & dance style of Mexico's Zapateado.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:49
Gems of Bluegrass #1138 Banjo Sea Change
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
: Folk traditions such as bluegrass evolve over time. But evolution is sometimes hastened by a great idea. When Earl Scruggs unveiled his syncopate...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2

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