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Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been a sad 2022 for music in India. Even while India was mourning the loss of its greatest singer, Lata Mangeshkar, the empress of song, it lo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
India and Pakistan have much in common but, lately an angel in purple has united the prickly neighbors in gobsmacked amazement.
- Added: Apr 18, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This weeks episode features friends from New Orleans ~ Preservation Hall Jazz Band with an opening set by our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...
Bought by KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
Drop in for jazz stations: The Divine Inspiration in a Jazzer ...
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jun 01, 2008
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 1
A perfect piece for Valentine's Day! The true story of how Joe Bevilacqua met his wife because of Graham Nash's laptop
Bought by KUT and Public Interactive
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 10:07
- Purchases: 2
the story of underground rockabilly guitarist Ray Campi
Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Dec 10, 2007
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 2
