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Belafonte-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: RCA Victor LP, Credit: 1955
A tribute to Harry Belafonte with music from his incredible career mixed with his own thoughts about his life and work

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
UpFront Soul #2023.16-April 18-24, 2023- Poetry Month Special
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Jessica Care Moore
We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll...

Bought by KMUN, WOMR, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KZUM, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
House/Full of Black Women
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...

Bought by KASU, WWNO, High Plains Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 45
Summit '63 - The First American Tops Mt. Everest
From: Charlie Warren
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A dramatic retelling of the challenging American expedition to climb the world's highest mountain 61 years ago.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WRFA-LP, PRX Remix, KUER, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 8
2023-03-17 A Global Just Transition – For Whom?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
230317: A Global Just Transition – For Whom?, 3/17/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
2023-03-10 Stop, Listen, What’s that Sound?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound, whether you’re hiking through the woods or sitting in a cafe with a friend. And not only are ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
20230310: Stop, Listen, What’s that Sound? , 3/10/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound, whether you’re hiking through the woods or sitting in a cafe with a friend. And not only are ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Rachmaninoff 150 – A Celebration
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth, acclaimed musicians discuss and perform his compositions, and Rachmaninoff himsel...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KRPS, WHQR, WMNR, KENW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
Burt Bacharach: A Celebration in Song
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Burt Bacharach stands alongside all the giants in popular music: "Music by Burt Bacharach." Hew wrote hundreds of hits as varied as the weather in ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
THE EMERGENCE OF MARVIN GAYE - E 2 of 2 - [1972 - 1984]
From: Paul Ingles
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Music specials host Paul Ingles and a panel of music scholars recall and celebrate the career of Motown music legend Marvin Gaye. This second of 2 ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KAZU Seaside, Calif., WXXI Rochester, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Folk Salad Airing 2-5-2023
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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We are celebrating Black History Month on Folk Salad with the first part of our show focusing on black Oklahoma musicians from the 1920's to the 60...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
Digging Into Broadway's Black History
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
Boats and Bluegrass 2022: Kind Country
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Tonight on The Live Feed we take you back to Boats & Bluegrass 2022 with Kind Country. Kind Country is the kind of country band that plays bluegras...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 55:29
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #663 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the second half of 1953. ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Everyday
From: Scott Wen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
JEFF BECK: Essential Artist
From: Paul Ingles
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JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, who passed away January 10, 2023 at ...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, KTNA, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
UpFront Soul #2023.03-January 17-23, 2023- Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by KZUM, WOUB, KAAD-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Broadway Bound Reboot #1
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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With what Garrett Stack considers, with few exceptions, a dismal state of musical theater for the last decade, a new programming format focuses alm...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
Episode #662 - 1953 Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the first half of 1953. Y...

Bought by KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00

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