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First of 4 music mix hours featuring a host of performers expressing the complicated feelings about life in America - in songs that both celebrate ...

Bought by KHNS, KXCV, WXXI Rochester, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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A stand-alone hour of music curated by public radio music host Paul Ingles that celebrates the word AMERICA or AMERICAN or USA in every title. Thi...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio, KCNP, KSLU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 26
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55