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Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Labor Day Music Special - One Hour or Two Hours
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials
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Two 1 hour music specials for Labor Day or Labor Day Weekend. Each hour is newscast compatible. Each hour stands alone and either hour can be chos...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 25
Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements
From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making
Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1236 Program for Sept 1-7, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...

Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1236 A New Look at Social Class and Bluegrass. For regular users, piece for Sept 1-7, 2012. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
Gems of Bluegrass #1037 Here's to the Working Man
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: OPhil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WAMU, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 4
5. Michael Moore, cellist and scene builder
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:45