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Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Queen
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for liturgical and secular music about, and by Jewish queens.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
220305 First Rock and Roll Song - Sandy Nelson and Glen Campbell As You've Never Heard Them
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Los Crazy Boys
The great rock drummer Sandy Nelson sound like a very traditional swing drummer and Glen Campbell sounds like a primitive surf band as our perspect...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 6
1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Andrew Hill's Black Fire LP
An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
PE 1951
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide

Bought by KEOS, KSRQ, KWMR, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMOT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
We've Got To Get Out Of This Place (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Vietnam Special)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 17-42: From Myth To Man: Thelonious Monk, Part 2, 10/9/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We delve into the later years and music of the pianist's career with Monk biographer Robin D. G. Kelley.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCNY, KVCR, KVSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 19
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to Vietnam

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Music & Mans Self Discovery with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Music & Mans Self Discovery with Dj Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid aka Paul Miller explores the ways in which music documents, inspires, heals and ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 27:41
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by KUHF and WCWP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KEDT, WMUU-LP, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by KRZA and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Solving the Klezmer Mystery (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by WJCT, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
Vast and Enduring Influence of Louis Armstrong
From: KCSM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Louis Armstrong's vast and enduring influence on musicians especially trumpeters and singers is explored from Dorothy Fields to Harry James.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 56:42
The Live Feed Presents: Corpse Reviver
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Corpse Reviver. This group is a collaborative of bluegrass performers paying tribute to t...

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 36:45
This Week in Texas Music History: Damita Jo Deblanc
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who seemed to have an answer for everything.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:40