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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
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...
- Added: May 13, 2023
- Length: 27:30
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "Overtone Singing," a comprehensive tome that addresses the physics ...
- Added: May 06, 2023
- Length: 28:29
DJ Ruby discusses the life and legacy of “Weird Al” Yankovic, including his favorite parodies and original songs.
- Added: Mar 22, 2023
- Length: 02:47
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
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
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
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In this episode: brand new chillout, Deep House, Psy-Trance, Techno, Minimal, House, and Trance tracks! Plus: Mongo Speaks!
- Added: Oct 18, 2014
- Length: 01:00:00
R.D. Burman would have turned 75 last week and Bollywood threw a great birthday bash.
Sandip Roy and Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington rem...
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
something special about the folks who squeeze squeezeboxes: examples and interviews with some kind accordeon players who love their music and play ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:05:52
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 33:33
The life, times, and music of Irish tenor, John McCormack.
- Added: Feb 17, 2011
- Length: 50:54
It’s usually bad or sad stuff we hear about when it comes to the developing world. But reporter Conrad Fox discovered bad and sad may all be in th...
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:29
Ghana sounds like everything you might imagine, and some things you never could.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2008
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 19, 2003
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
