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Decent Work and Economic Growth: UN Sustainable Goal #8
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Welcome to melodically challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Introduction to the Podcast
From: Adam Morse
Series: There Is A Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
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Welcome to the show! This four minute introductory episode informs folks of what topics, ideas and objectives this podcast will have.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
Womenfolk - Labor Day Special
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Labor Day Special

  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:03
Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Jay Farrar - Legend Series
From: Art of the Song
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SHOW 911 (Air Dates: June 13 - 19, 2022) Our guest this week on Art pdf the Song is the legendary singer/songwriter, Jay Farrar. One of the foundin...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KEDT


  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Working
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Everyday working people tell their stories.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 34
Fair Trade Music Special
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 790 (Air Dates: Feb 17 - 23, 2020) This week we present a special edition of Art of the Song exploring an initiative called Fair Trade Music. ...

Bought by WBYC Community Radio, WHRV, KNBA, WETS, KKFI and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Episode #27: MusiCares Stories
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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Benefits can be hard to come by in the music business. So where do people turn in emergencies? In 1989 the Recording Academy created the MusiCares ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:45
Day Job 10: The Window Washer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 16:10
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1236 Program for Sept 1-7, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...

Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1236 A New Look at Social Class and Bluegrass. For regular users, piece for Sept 1-7, 2012. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
Jonathan Cooper -- Violinmaker (Portland, ME)
From: Scott Bliss (wsblissjr)
Caption: Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper - Violinmaker and fiddle player (Portland, ME)

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #1037 Here's to the Working Man
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: OPhil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WAMU, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 4
Story of a Song
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Piano Tuner
From: KUT
Caption: Linn Roath at work, Credit: Michael Lee
This is an audio portrait of piano tuner Linn Roath.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:59
7. Kym Tuvim. Your piano teacher has a secret talent.
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:10
WWOZ Street Talk-Silent Second Line
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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The musicians Union will organize a march on Aug. 26 to address many of the issues facing working musicians in New Orleans

  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 08:20