PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with documentary film maker Richard Ray Perez.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Even though this episode of our weekly radio program aired on May the Sixth, we continue the Cinco de Mayo celebrations by exploring a wide variety...

  • Added: May 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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Time, of course, is a key element of music. Music develops itself in time. We talk about keeping time and beating time. Let’s see how composers fro...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Enjoy some of the many musical treasures found in the archives and cathedrals of Latin America. We will feature music from the 16th to 19th century...

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  • Length: 58:30
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Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, has inspired much music in Latin American culture. Though closely associated with American Halloween festiv...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by KZYX and KEDT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 2
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With immigration rising, the United States will soon no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profile. Plus: A Cuban's love for Mayberry. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, KQED, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
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We learn about the power of actively-engaged scholarship in this program about the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and its ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 24:39
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The Chicago Panamerican Ensemble has built a solid reputation over the years. The group, led by pianist Beatriz Helguera and cellist Andrew Snow ha...

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  • Length: 58:30
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 26:07
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 21:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Xanath Caraza likes to use poetry to showcase some of Mexico's linguistic and cultural diversity, drawing inspiration from Afro-Mexican history, La...

Bought by KRZA and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Legendary Brazilian guitar duo Sergio and Odair Assad have been performing and recording together for 50 years, reinventing guitar technique along ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Uncovering and interpreting age-old documents and written records--what do they tell us about the people who produced them?

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:53:22
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
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This moving and provocative documentary chronicles the historic journey of the “U.S./Mexico Caravan for Peace,” which from August 12th to Septembe...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WDSE


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3
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Over the past decade, Mexican drug traffickers trying to get their products to the U.S. have had a spiritual “protector.” Her name is Santa Muerte—...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Known for his book THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, and his American Book Award-winning memoir, NOBODY'S SON, Luis Al...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
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World class trombonist Conrad Herwig explains how he gets inspired to put a Latin rhythm under jazz classics.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
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9th grader Evan interviews people in his community about how it's changing

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 2