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Whose Monkey Chant Is It Anyway?
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That
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The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 17:05
Passage to the Middle Kingdom - Chinese Musical Traditions
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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For hundreds of years, China has held sway over the western imagination. With exquisite silks, architecture, poetry, calligraphy, paintings,music a...

Bought by KALW, KFCF FM, WVBI-LP, WCPN, KTOO and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 10
Vijay Iyer's "Entropy and Time"
From: Tomal Hossain
Caption: Album art of Vijay Iyer's 2011 album, "Tirtha"
A song review of the track "Entropy and Time" off of Vijay Iyer's 2011 album, Tirtha.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:54
The Erhu (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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At one time, the erhu was the muse of Central Asian nomads; this small, two-stringed fiddle could be played on horseback (imagine folk modifying an...

Bought by KBYI


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chinese Ensembles (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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About 2,500 years ago, the body of a Chinese nobleman was placed in a tomb with items he cherished most: furnishings, bronze vessels, weapons and s...

Bought by KBYI


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chinese Ensembles (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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About 2,500 years ago, the body of a Chinese nobleman was placed in a tomb with items he cherished most: furnishings, bronze vessels, weapons and s...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Guzheng (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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It's among the most popular instruments in China. Over most of its 2,500-year-history, the guzheng has been a mainstay in everything from opera to ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Hawaii Public Radio, KBYI, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Guzheng (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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It's among the most popular instruments in China. Over most of its 2,500-year-history, the guzheng has been a mainstay in everything from opera to ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
Percussion Music (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Have you ever heard of a wooden fish, a flowerpot drum or a nipple gong? They are part of a raucous, colorful-and wildly popular-feature in Chinese...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Hawaii Public Radio, KBYI, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 4
Percussion Music (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Have you ever heard of a wooden fish, a flowerpot drum or a nipple gong? They are part of a raucous, colorful-and wildly popular-feature in Chinese...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Suona (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Yazhi Guo grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution when conservatories were closed and traditional Chinese music and musical instruments were all...

Bought by KBYI, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, and KOWS


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Dizi (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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As a child, Jennifer Alexa Zhang spent around eight hours a day practicing the piano. As a teen, she added the Chinese bamboo flute to her regimen ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and KOWS


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 5
The Dizi (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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As a child, Jennifer Alexa Zhang spent around eight hours a day practicing the piano. As a teen, she added the Chinese bamboo flute to her regimen ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KBYI, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Pipa (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Wu Man lives in San Diego, but works in venues around the world. And she is doing it on an instrument that had once been in decline. When she enter...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Pipa (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Wu Man lives in San Diego, but works in venues around the world. And she is doing it on an instrument that had once been in decline. When she enter...

Bought by WVTF, KBYI, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 6
The YangQin (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Xiao Xiannian (Xiao is the last name) is a conservatory-trained virtuoso of the YangQin-a Chinese hammered dulcimer. Once a soloist with a prestigi...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 6
The YangQin (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Xiao Xiannian (Xiao is the last name) is a conservatory-trained virtuoso of the YangQin-a Chinese hammered dulcimer. Once a soloist with a prestigi...

Bought by KBYI, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 10:07
  • Purchases: 5
Singer-Songwriter Josh Vasa
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Singer-songwriter Josh Vasa, Credit: Tanner Latham
Birmingham, Alabama, singer-songwriter Josh Vasa of the band Sanyasi talks about his Indian heritage, writing, and the value of cheesy lyrics.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 3
StudioTalk No. 1: Music follows Behaviour.... with Mandolin player Sri Sugato Bhaduri (Kolkata)
From: ElJay Arem
Series: IMC - India meets Classic presents... StudioTalks
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
StudioTalk No. 2: Music awareness by Love… from Love to Music... with Sarod player Ranajit Sengupta (Kolkata)
From: ElJay Arem
Series: IMC - India meets Classic presents... StudioTalks
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone
The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
Wilma Pang
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
Practicing Awareness
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Phil Nyokai James playing the shakuhachi
Students of the shakuhachi flute learn about music, listening, and presence in their daily lives.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 06:37
Asian-American Special - Don Ho Tribute (58:59 or 59:59)
From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Series: Asian-American Heritage Special
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Asian-American special features Don Ho in Hawaii in his last face-to-face Public Radio interview with singing, songs and music tunes from the beach...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:00:31
Tell Me Wai
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: New Zealand Stories
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Maori group called 'Wai" blends traditions with a hip hop sound in New Zealand.

Bought by WNJR and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2