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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:55
Queen of Rock 'n' Roll is a musical history of the great Tina Turner hosted by musicologist Howard Burchette.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KOSU
- Added: Jun 07, 2023
- Length: 57:17
- Purchases: 2
"The Supreme Diana Ross" is a presentation hosted by Howard Burchette on the history of Diana Ross with the Supremes. They were the greatest female...
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 52:00
Pianist Sarah Cahill joins us as we revisit her performance project "The Future is Female." Also, music for the violin by Augusta Read Thomas, feat...
Bought by KMUN, WRTI, Classic107.3, and KMXT
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.
Bought by WILL
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 56:59
- Purchases: 1
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
This is a Classical music program featuring women of color.
They are all notable Women in various fields of Classical Music;
including Composers, ...
Bought by KVCR, WXXI Rochester, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Jul 22, 2021
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 3
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Like many kids who come from working class immigrant families, Kateri Gutierrez felt a lot of pressure to get ahead. After a brief stint trying to ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2019
- Length: 07:05
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 24:10
- Purchases: 1
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 4
Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 29:30
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
A society of weavers and spinners shares their textured, multi-stranded history with the next generation.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 07:24
Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 18:22
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 29:42
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 38
Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner talk dreams, unexpected cultural differences, and making friends with depression.
- Added: Nov 27, 2014
- Length: 29:16
Conversations about where women are (and aren't) in pop culture, from the impact of "Free to Be You and Me" to the evolution of Wonder Woman.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCPN, and NPR Illinois
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 51:30
- Purchases: 3
Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 2
You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Vocalist Jane Monheit has paid her dues.
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 05:05
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 03:16
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 05:24
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 03:53
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 03:44
