PRX » Search » Browse

PRX

Home
Pieces
Series
Playlists

PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search

View by:

169 results

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next »

I'm a Monk, You're a Monk, We're All Monks

From: Aaron Rietz

personal essay on obscure yet revolutionary 60's ex-gi band "the monks"

Added: May 08, 2007
Length: 06:42

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 2. The Streets Were Paved with Gold: A Journey Through The Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants found a harsh life and no gold on the Lower East Side. The program describes aspects of daily immigrant life including tenements,...

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WXXI Rochester and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:30
Purchases: 9

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 3. Becoming Americans: A Journey Through the Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Yiddish Theater - Culture and religion of the Old Country abandoned - The Triangle Shirtwaist fire - Assimilation into mainstream America

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:26
Purchases: 10

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 4. White Christmas: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and George Gershwin reinvented American popular music

Bought by WCPN, KCSM, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:21
Purchases: 15

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 5. Over the Rainbow: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Yiddish-speaking moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn created Hollywood, and an idealized, small-town Protestant America that never was.

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, New England Public Media and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:13
Purchases: 9

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 6. No Dogs or Jews Allowed: The Story of Antisemitism in America.

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Story of Antisemitism in America - Father Coughlin, Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh publicly denounce Jews - Joe Lieberman chosen to run for V...

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

Added: May 01, 2007
Length: 58:19
Purchases: 9

Me and Hank

From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views

The story of a boy and his hero, baseball home run champion Hank Aaron, and an exploration of the hatred Aaron endured in chasing a white man's rec...

Bought by WXDU, KFAI Minneapolis, KISU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix and more

Added: Apr 13, 2007
Length: 16:54
Purchases: 8

HEAT -- The End of the Beginning

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY

A reflection on changes in 1990 South Africa from a poet, the playwright Athol Fugard, musicians, Ambassador Lindewe Mabuzeh and everyday people.

Bought by WCPN, KERA, KLCC, WCQS, and KUT

Added: Apr 04, 2007
Length: 59:03
Purchases: 5

My Grandparents in WW2

From: KBOO Youth Collective

Interview with the Zeller Grandparents about their lives during WW 2.

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Mar 21, 2007
Length: 08:13
Purchases: 1

The Tribal Beat 2/11/07

From: KSUT

Weekly Native News magazine celebrating current happenings in Indian Country. This week you'll hear about Ohkay Owingay leader Po'Pay. He led th...

Bought by KRCC-FM

Added: Feb 13, 2007
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Program 20: Journey's End

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy Turner was proud of her heritage and understood the value of her family tradition. This is the concluding program in the series, Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 02:48
Purchases: 2

Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 01:45
Purchases: 2

Program 17: A New Year's Recitation

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:56
Purchases: 4

Program 16: Daisy's Premonition

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 05:16
Purchases: 2

Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:14
Purchases: 2

Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

As a girl, Daisy Turner faces discrimination at school and confronts it directly--with poetry.

Bought by KZYX, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:39
Purchases: 3

Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy suffered from rickets as a child and during her younger years was unable to walk. At a young age she heard prayers, recitations, hymns, and s...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:11
Purchases: 2

Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:20
Purchases: 2

Program 11: Coming to Vermont

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:20
Purchases: 2

Program 10: The Slate Quarry

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Alec and Sally Turner lived for a time in Williamsburg, Maine, as members of a colony of freed slaves who worked in the Merrill slate quarry there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:45
Purchases: 2

Program 09: Marriage and Near-Disaster at Sea

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

After the Civil War ended, Alec worked helping freed slaves find jobs off the plantations. During this time he met his future wife, Sally Early, th...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX