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From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
China Smith and her students share their perspectives on the dance world, and describe how they created their own world in Ballet Afrique.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 04:42
RadioActive Youth Media producer Krubel Amare breaks down the true essence of Hip Hop culture, and how it’s impacted himself and the people around ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 1
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
A blistering Lee Morgan on trumpet sets the ambiance for singers Leah Natale, Cecile Hortensia and Mark Murphy, rhythm makers could be Charles Lewi...
- Added: Mar 10, 2015
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 4
Within these two power-packed Hacksaw hours hear a continuing tribute to the late blues guitarist Johnny Winter, jazz violinists, great lyrical alt...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 01:59:55
- Purchases: 2
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
In this unedited podcast, Cathy Byrd shares a conversation with artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, that she recorded in his Houston, Texas, studio.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 24:25
Recorded in Berlin, on October 27, 2012, this unedited podcast features Cathy Byrd, Fresh Talk producer, in conversation with Jean-Ulrick Désert.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 34:36
Florence Beatrice Price wrote more than 300 musical compositions. Some of her works have been lost, others are unpublished, and some of piano and v...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WUGA (part of GPB), WFMT Station Account, Troy Public Radio, WVIA and more
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong is consider one of the most important musicians of the 20th century. With his innovations in ensemble playing and his dis...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
Artist JAMES GIBSON is one of the original Florida Highwaymen, a loosely-organized group of African-American painters renowned for their depictions...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 04:58
In his Brooklyn home, activist artist Danny Simmons talks to Cathy Byrd about the essential elements of his creative practice—writing, painting, co...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 16:51
Operatic tenor Everett McCorvey talks about how he was drawn into the music, how he helped build the opera program at University of Kentucky, and t...
Bought by WEKU
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 26:18
- Purchases: 1
2009 NEA National Heritage Fellows, The Birmingham Sunlights, discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound."
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 25:40
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
Members of Phi Beta Sigma’s fraternity started off this year’s 34th annual Soul Food Dinner at Winona State University. The Harlem Renaissance was ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 12:21
Artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji sat down with producer Rebecca McInroy to discuss her inspirations, goals and life as an artist.
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 08:12
Blind since a hiking accident in 1971, Charles Blackwell has not let his disability prevent him from becoming a vibrant visual artists. In this seg...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
one of the famous Gees Bend quilters talks about the tradition of quilting and their rise to international fame
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Aug 29, 2008
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 1
Choreographer Judith Jamison believes being "good" includes being open, honest and true to oneself.
- Added: Mar 30, 2007
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 3
Billie Holiday writing the song "Strange Friuit" - This poet is a student at Morgan Park High School (Chicago, IL).
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:47
Kentucky poet Frank X Walker believes creativity helps people stay happy and enriches our world.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 4
- Added: May 19, 2005
- Length: 14:34
