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Ma Rainey-a Celebration of the Blues and African American Performance

From: Don McIver

Using "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" film now out on Netflix, we look at how she influenced the blues with selections from her, Sterling Brown, Bessie...

Soli Deo Gloria

From: Kate O'Connell

Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts

An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

How Streaming will Change the Film Industry

From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime have changed the media landscape. Patrick Gunn looked at how streaming affects film making and whe...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Hungarian Blues

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix

if music be the love of food?

From: PhilipDavid Ellwand

Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

The Last of the Iron Lungs

From: Julia Scott

Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott

Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more

This Week in Texas Music History: Mance Lipscomp

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the second week of April (4/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the son of a former slave who helped inspire a Texa...

This Week In Texas Music History: Don Robey

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...

This Week in Texas Music History: Dean Beard

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...

The Story of New Orleans' J&M Recording Studios

From: Gianluca Tramontana

New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio