PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
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Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 05:45
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:52
This week's program was recorded on the road, in Dayton, Ohio.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 03:29
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...
Bought by KENW and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
When we think of early rock and roll most of us think of musicians like Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. But all these legends grew ...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 4
One of America’s greatest composers was Aaron Copland, who wrote among other things, an opera called The Tender Land, which premiered at the New Yo...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 3
The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 06, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 3
The groundbreaking soundtrack of "The Descendants," marks the first time a Hollywood movie has ever been scored entirely with Hawaiian music.
It fe...
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 07:17
Matisyahu, a Hasidic Jew from White Plains, New York has built personal relationships online that have propelled him all the way to the Winter Olym...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
Ever since Lyle Ritz recorded the world's first jazz ukulele album in 1957, he earned the title, "Father of Jazz Ukulele." He was also a bass play...
Bought by PRX Remix, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and WYSO
- Added: Aug 07, 2007
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 3