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It's All Happening - Higher Ground (IAH 020)
From: Andy Valeri / Big Beef Productions
Series: It's All Happening
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Episode #20 of this weekly music-based program delivering an inspired reinvention of how we inform ourselves about and experience the world we live...

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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An interview with the co-directors of the documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. The interview paints a comprehensive picture of Max Roach's...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
005 Peter Kirtley
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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On this program we talk with British guitarist and songwriter Peter Kirtley, who has recorded and toured with artists including Sonny Boy Williamso...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
NL 22-16: Jazz Goes to the Cold War, 4/11/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War & the civil-rights movement heated up, the U.S. State Department sent jazz musicians on goodwill tours around...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
NL 22-03: The Year In Jazz, 1963: A Man’s Dream, A Nation’s Nightmare, 1/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing unease and the youthful vitality...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Jeff Brandt on the music of 1971
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week at MTPR, we’re celebrating music and stories from 1971 to commemorate 50 years of National Public Radio. To celebrate this history, we’re...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 3
The Raga Role: On Carnatic Music and Caste
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: MS Subbulakshmi at the 1966 UN General Assembly
We explore the evolution of what we might call the modernism of the classical in South Indian music and the ways the production of this form of mus...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Musicians For Peace & Social Justice: Jackson Browne/ Marvin Gaye/ Harry Chapin
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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PEACE TALKS RADIO host Paul Ingles profiles 3 musicians whose music turned the attention of their fans to issues of peacemaking, social justice and...

Bought by KUHF and KSJE


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Musicians For Peace & Social Justice: Jackson Browne/ Marvin Gaye/ Harry Chapin
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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PEACE TALKS RADIO host Paul Ingles profiles 3 musicians whose music turned the attention of their fans to issues of peacemaking, social justice and...

Bought by KCNP, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
S2:E10 The Political Shuffle
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:46
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset, An Educator Discusses the Importance of Protecting Childhood and a Poet Contemplates his Sp...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
The POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule: What The Heck
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule
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A bold and powerful nation with imperial ambitions must confront the fact that absolute power may not always equate to certain victory. It must com...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight -Bruce Cockburn 2019 Mspot Part Two- 727
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Considered by his native Canada to be nothing less than a national treasure, multiple Juno Award winning songwriter, guitarist and social and spiri...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 4
The POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule: Exit Wound
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule
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After a tragic loss, a parent is inundated with words of condolences and must ponder the real value and meaning of these words. Are they meant in a...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight -James McMurtry/Marc Cohn Remix Mspot Part One- 722
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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From the Musician’s Spotlight archives comes two programs back to back featuring Montana Broadcast Association winning interviews with singer songw...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 4
The POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule presents: 'And Yet'
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule
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'And Yet' is a song that begs the question: If we are fundamentally all the same, why is it so easy to dehumanize marginalized people? It takes an ...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
The POINT LESS Podcast with Ola Onabule — Throwaway Notion
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule
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The POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule presents: 'Throwaway Notion', the second track from POINT LESS, the new album by Ola Onabule.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight -Rahim AlHaj Part One- 706
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

Bought by KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION -- Barak Goodman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Barak Goodman, San Francisco, CA 5/31/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Barak Goodman talks revelation, teasing footage, and the necessity of serendipity.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 25:00
Prison (March 8, 2019)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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The prison experience reflected in poetry and music.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:50
Cold Comfort | Episode 11 | Life Is Too Hard Without Music
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Iqaluit is the capital city of Nunavut, the largest territory in Canada., Credit: Nick Mott
All across the Arctic, indigenous languages are on the decline. But in many communities, people are finding new ways to reclaim both language and c...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight - Amy Ray - 685
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Singer songwriter Amy Ray has always been toward the “rockier” side of the folk-rock description that usually follows her work as one half of the G...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hatikvah
From: Israel Story
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It took the words of a misfit poet and a Romanian folk melody to create Israel's first viral song - and it's national anthem. Now, decades later, w...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 12:13
Bob Dylan, The Poet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Looking for Inspiration? Listen to composer Ted Nash's Presidential Suite.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ted Nash
With Presidential Suite,Ted Nash transforms iconic political speeches into an inventive jazz composition.

Bought by KMUW and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2