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Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:10
Caption: The Harlan Twins, Credit: Chaz Mottinger
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
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Three short "Moments" featuring alto saxophonist and 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Lou Donaldson. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Siriu...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Flip Scipio and wife Mitzi Pratt, in their Martha's Vineyard studio., Credit: Emma de Campo
Flip Scipio has been described as a “guitar repairer to the gods.” And with customers including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, it's a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Kayden Jenkins-Deal, owner of "The Brass Band", repairs school band instruments in his Durham, North Carolina home studio.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
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Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joyce Family musicians, Credit: courtesy of Sharon Joyce Butterfield (Swan's Island Memory Project)
Families that play music together stay together. The Joyce family on Swan's Island made their own entertainment.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:45
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack heads out to Rollie's Rednecks and Longnecks in St Cloud not to ride the mecha...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 23:27
  • Purchases: 1
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His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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St. Cloud has a vibrant arts scene and the Symphony Orchestra is only one facet of arts in the community. Enjoy this special broadcast full of hea...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Blindness helps a man rediscover a dream.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
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The story of the birth of a violin.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dioniso Arriola
A migration story told and sung by Dionisio Arriola; recorded in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2008
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chester Whitmore
The Golden Age of Harlem dance comes alive in Seattle

  • Added: Nov 02, 2008
  • Length: 06:51
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Here's a non-narrated tour through a dozen of Chicago's parks at the height of summer, when the ice cream trucks can barely keep up with demand.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 28, 2008
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Sound collage of Rock and Roll Camp for Girls

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KLCC


  • Added: Jan 22, 2008
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
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A women's barbershop quartet sings and discusses what keeps them singing.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2007
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Last installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 05:02
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Fifht installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:56
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Sixth installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:05
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Third installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 06:02
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First installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:37
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When Alessandro Bosetti draped himself in sound equipment and set out for West Africa, it wasn't to record native music, but to play experimental a...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 45:54