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Kathak's Return Journey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (A Marriage in Nepal)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey congratulated by the Home Minister of Nepal along with activist Sunil Babu Pant (on Right). , Credit: Facebook page of Sunil Babu Pant.
For 16 years Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey could not get married, but now they have the most important piece of paper in Nepal.

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dj Coop and Dj Electric Landfill Talk about Video Game soundtracks
From: KXCI
Series: Bonus Tracks
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Dj Coop and Dj Electric Landfill Talk about their favorite Video Game soundtracks stretching from Donkey Kong to Doom.

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:18
Metal Madness: DJ Coop Reviews Mercyful Fate’s Dont Break The Oath
From: KXCI
Series: Bonus Tracks
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Resident youth metal enthusiast DJ Coop returns to Bonus Track to review his favorite Mercyful Fate album, Don’t Break the Oath. He discusses influ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:17
Fading Beauties: Streetcars of Desire Pt. 2
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
The Fontwala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Some of the typefaces designed by Rajeev Prakash for Indian scripts., Credit: Sandip Roy
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: 'Akiapōlā'au
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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The 'Akiapōlā'au is one of Hawaii's rare and endangered birds, living exclusively on the Big Island.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
Intangible Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Durga Puja as installation art, Credit: Sandip Roy
Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering Urvashi Vaid
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Urvashi Vaid (right) and her long-time partner Kate Clinton (left)
The South-Asian Queer activist Urvashi Vaid passed away on May 14th, but her influence remains.

  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Like Coming Home
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
Chomolungma Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mount Everest, Credit: Stephen Alter
Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
EP149 Frank Goldwasser
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Paris Slim and his Blues

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
012 - Reformation and Counter-Reformation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Explore the influence the Reformation and Counter-Reformation had on the world of music including the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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011 - Canon and Imitation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Explore the development of imitation, or canon, as a tool of harmony and musical in the works of Josquin Deprez and Johannes Ockeghem.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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009 - Guillame Du Fay
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Discover the music of the 15th Century French composer Guillame Du Fay and how the lines that defined secular and sacred music began to blur in the...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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008 - Ars Antiqua vs. Ars Nova
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Discover the writings of French theorist, poet, philosopher and composer Philippe de Vitry.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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007 - Troubadours - Bernart de Ventadorn
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Troubadors, or trouveres, were French composers and performers of secular lyrical poetry and song beginning in the late 11th Century.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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006 - Hildegard of Bingen
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Hildegard of Bingen was a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, abbess, polymath, and a literal visionary of the 12th Century.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
005 - Leonin and Perotin
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Learn about anonymity and authorship in the Middle Ages.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:58
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004 - Guido de Arezzo
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Learn about one of the first music theorists in our Western musical tradition.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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003 - The Birth of Musical Notation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Discover how the practice of writing down music began.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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001 - Ancient Musical Notation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Explore the earliest examples of written music in history.

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
King Denslow
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The Wizard of Oz started as a perfect partnership between L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow -- until they became bitter rivals, with each owning half ...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 12:22
  • Purchases: 3
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1