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Bonus: Christmas
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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In this episode we talk about Christmas horror movies, and how this gleefully perverse genre depicts the darker side of the holidays.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 37:12
Episode 5: Legacy
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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We talk about the lasting legacy of rural horror, and what the tropes and shorthand used by horror filmmakers continue to reveal about the world ar...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 41:33
Episode 4: Supernatural
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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We dig into the folk horror and how it uses rural places to illustrate modern tensions between science and the supernatural.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 37:01
Episode 1: Urbanoia
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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We look at urban fears about the country, and rural fears about the city. Which is scarier, and should we take more issue with the tropes, or the i...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 36:38
A MEDITATION ON AMERICA Music Mix - Hour 4
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Great for on or near the Fourth of July...or other patriotic holidays. Fourth of 4 music mix hours featuring a host of performers expressing the ...

Bought by KHNS, WXXI Rochester, WHYY, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KSLU and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
A MEDITATION ON AMERICA Music Mix - Hour 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Great for on or near the Fourth of July...or other patriotic holidays. Second of 4 music mix hours featuring a host of performers expressing the c...

Bought by KHNS, KRPS, KXCV, WXXI Rochester, WHYY and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
A MEDITATION ON AMERICA Music Mix - Hour 1
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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First of 4 music mix hours featuring a host of performers expressing the complicated feelings about life in America - in songs that both celebrate ...

Bought by KHNS, KXCV, WXXI Rochester, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
A Music Mix for America (Single Hour-Long Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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A stand-alone hour of music curated by public radio music host Paul Ingles that celebrates the word AMERICA or AMERICAN or USA in every title. Thi...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio, KCNP, KSLU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 26
The New Anthropology of Love
From: Hold That Thought
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Cultural anthropologist Dredge Kang explains how political economics and other societal influences sometimes play as Cupid's arrows.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 15:57
Ramadan: The Celebration
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Amina on Ramadan (2015)
Caption: Amina Al-Sadi, Credit: Personal photo
Amina Al-Sadi is a 25-year-old American Muslim currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is for spiritual renewal, but it is also abou...

Bought by WHFR, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KREV-LP, KISU and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
VoxPod #8 - Two Arabian Days and Nights
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today's show features some of the highlights from the 2007 Seattle Arab Festival.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 1
05 Lubliner Nign
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
04 Lustig Zayn
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
03 Simkes Hanefesh
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
02 Sofia's Song
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
01 Shtayn Gart's
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
Breaking Up Christmas
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
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When Christmas is over, the fun is just getting started for many in Southern Appalachia.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU, KUER, WOUB, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 16
After the Weekend
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Past post mistress Anne Crotts sings at the 4th July. Postal workers in Ghana make music to make their work go smoother

  • Added: Jul 09, 2008
  • Length: 09:57
Stories Make the World
From: Claire Schoen
Series: ILLUMINATIONS: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World
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"Stories Make the World" is an hour-long audio documentary celebrating the rich tradition of Jewish storytelling within the context of storytelling...

Bought by WWNO, KUPR low power FM, KMUN, KUNM, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 25
An Open Gate
From: Claire Schoen
Series: ILLUMINATIONS: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World
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"An Open Gate" is an hour-long audio documentary exploring the repercussions of a Jewish/Christian intermarriage on faith, identity and the family....

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WRKF, KUAF Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KTOO and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 20
RN Documentary: The Music of Love (Valentine's Day special)
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Seated at his Bechstein grand, concert pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider talks to Dheera Sujan about the music inspired by and written abou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KRPS, KFAI Minneapolis, KRZA, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2007
  • Length: 30:59
  • Purchases: 7
RN Documentary: A Christmas Edition of The Stars of Music with Gary Goldschneider and Dheera Sujan
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Concert pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider talks to Dheera Sujan about the origins of Christmas music.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
like it's 1999
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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true sound from the dawn of the new millennium

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Oct 31, 2006
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Josh's Diary, Part 2: First Kiss
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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In Josh's second diary, he packs his tape recorder for his first summer away from home. "What I have here is an envelope on which this girl Nicole ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 18:11
  • Purchases: 4