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- Added: Aug 01, 2013
- Length: 14:00
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
From: Latitude News
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 14:32
- Purchases: 1
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 3
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a BusinessWeek best seller soon to be in its ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 57:43
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
Kenny Endo is one of the leading artists in contemporary percussion and rhythm. He is a consummate artist, blending Japanese taiko with rhythms inf...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 52:59
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 28:58
Some of the earliest Blue Note recording sessions featured the trumpet of Sidney DeParis, clarinet of Edmund Hall, and piano of Art Hodes. They ca...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 58:52
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 47:21
Successful homeownership is a fundamental part of the American dream. Rebuilding that dream is in our national interest, and crucial to our economi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
The rediscovery of recordings lost for 40 years in West Texas rewrites a chapter in American music history. In this hour long radio special "The L...
Bought by CBC Inside the Music, KGLT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 55:51
- Purchases: 3
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 58:53
A new book, Road to Valor, by Aili and Andres McConnon is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 1
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 28:57
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
America’s middle class is in dramatic decline. But, what caused the downfall?
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
