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Jamaican Versus American Musics - Who Influenced Who?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 43:39
Kill 'Em Dead with Needle and Thread
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Jeremiah Williams, better known as Flag Boy Twin, may have left New Orleans, but he brought his rich heritage as a Mardi Gras Indian with him. Part...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Moveable Race
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: Cartoon, "The Mascot", New Orleans, 27 July 1891. "Scenes and Incidents - A Lady Bicyclist Creates a Sensation on St. Charles Avenue".
Lacar Musgrove reads "A Moveable Race" about a 19th Century bicycle race on Thanksgiving Day in New Orleans.

Bought by Raven Radio, KTXK, Raven Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSFR and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 7