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Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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LGBT and Ethnic Scholar and Author Lillian Faderman discusses her book My Mother’s Wars a reconstructed memoir of her mother’s life as an Jewish i...

Bought by KMUN, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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This week on Harmonia, we're collecting music named after specific people. These eponymous tunes have namesakes ranging from tragic to notorious a...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Put on a sweater, because this week on Harmonia, we’re touring the Nordic countries. Often left out of the discussion when it comes to early music,...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WFHB, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:08:45
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As her health begins to wain, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing,...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:14:51
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We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:03:18
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In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:04
Caption: Ann Powers, Author of TRAVELING ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL
DESCRIPTION: Part 2 of a 2-part deep dive into the creative and personal path of revered musician Joni Mitchell with NPR Music Critic Ann Powers, a...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KVMR, KUHF, KFSK, and WUTC


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Ann Powers, Author of TRAVELING ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL
DESCRIPTION: Part 1 of a 2 part deep dive into the creative and personal path of revered musician Joni Mitchell with NPR Music Critic Ann Powers...

Bought by North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, KVMR, KUHF and more


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.

  • Added: May 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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This week on Harmonia, we’re continuing our Listening to Art mini-series with the sounds of 16th and 17th century public spaces: patrolling the cit...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Now is the month of Maying, and English madrigalists weren’t the only ones singing about it! This week on Harmonia, we’ve got music for that marvel...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KMXT and KSRQ


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KMXT and KSRQ


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KMXT and KSRQ


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2