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Author Kevin Wilson's talks about his funny and moving novel Nothing to See Here

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Kevin Wilson, Credit: Leigh Anne Crouch

Author of the NEA Big Read title Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously fu...

Bought by KVNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMUN and more

Added: Jan 17, 2023
Length: 28:40
Purchases: 7

Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 13, 2023
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Quoting in Rhythm

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 05, 2023
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Lost Chords part 2

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 28, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Christmas with the Club

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 22, 2022
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 1

End Kids Cancer

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 20, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Lost Chords part 1

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

In the early 1990s, jazz trumpet Richard Sudhalter decided he needed to correct, what he perceived as a historical error: that the White jazz music...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 15, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Jazz Dance

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

In the 1920s, dozens of new dances were introduced to a dance hungry public. From America to Europe, people were feeling the rhythm in their feet.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 08, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Progress Illusion

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 06, 2022
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 1

New Orleans part 2

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 01, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Navajo/ Diné Weaving: Art that is a Way of Life

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany

Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver and 2022 National Heritage Fellow TahNibaa Naataanii talks about the way of life that is Navajo/Diné weaving

Added: Nov 29, 2022
Length: 29:01

You Can’t Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

History shows us that freedom of speech is a fluid and evolving concept that requires continual defense. It’s always under threat. And it’s never a...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 28, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

New Orleans Horns

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 22, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

A Poison Life No Other

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine

Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX

Added: Nov 20, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Sizzling Syncopators

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 17, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Big Band

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 10, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on the Planet

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

When it comes to climate change, it’s easy to feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Temperatures are rising to unsustainable levels. Larger an...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 07, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

KC Gems

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 03, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Panics without Borders

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

“Zombie Statistics” is what professor Gregory Mitchell calls them. Those are the chunks of data officials use to prove there is a rise in sex-traff...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 01, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Songster

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Before there can be a singer there has to be a lyricist. Fortunately, the 1920s were rich in the number of creative wordsmiths. Not to mention the...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 27, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Haunting of the Five and Dime

From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show

Caption: John Davey on The Red Jacket Jamboree, Credit: Nate Bett

Join the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests: singer-songwriter John Davey and author T.Marie Bertineau for a special that explores the myth...

Bought by Southern Branch Bluegrass and WNMU-FM

Added: Oct 26, 2022
Length: 59:02
Purchases: 2

Art at the Intersection: Saving a Community Legacy

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed, Credit: Naima Wolfe

Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacan...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more

Added: Oct 25, 2022
Length: 28:56
Purchases: 6

Lines of Color

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

: Jazz emphasized improvisation and individual expression. It became a symbol of freedom and rebellion. Especially for the young. The fact that it...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX

Added: Oct 20, 2022
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 2

Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The Democrats have lost their footing since the New Deal. That’s how Ed Burmila sees it. Now, he says, they haven’t been able to grasp that they ne...

Bought by KCBX