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You know what bluegrass and old time music get from the old ballad singers? It’s the frank way the sung stories unfold. And when we listeners hear ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 25, 2009
- Length: 08:24
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass is a combination of many styles originating in America, Europe and Africa. But bluegrass is considered American. Ask bluegrass players wh...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 24, 2009
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative...
- Added: Jun 23, 2009
- Length: 03:30
When you play bluegrass banjo, you can use a combination of formulas and invented playing techniques. You put a lot of sweat equity in learning the...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 14, 2009
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
So many players get started by imitating what they've heard. They just have to make that pretty sound. But in the process of learning, the music ch...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 10, 2009
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
Before a new piece of music is played for the first time – before it is judged either a masterpiece or a disaster, it exists in a state of musical ...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :19
In bluegrass, there is the mandolin, the guitar, the fiddle, the banjo and the bass, and sometimes the dobro. And that’s it. But why the limitation...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 07:40
- Purchases: 1
A selection of French Language Popular Music songs presented with an English speaking audience in mind.
Bought by KUT-HD
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 26:08
- Purchases: 1
Over the short history of bluegrass, its audience has changed from rural to urban. It broke off from the country music industry. It grew from a reg...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 06:48
- Purchases: 1
On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...
Bought by WMNF
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Every music tradition changes over time, including bluegrass. It’s natural think that change means it gets more complex. But sometimes, the old stu...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: May 16, 2009
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
What’s real in bluegrass songs? It’s the detail about life in whatever era that makes it seem real. Funny, bluegrass reality usually focuses on har...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: May 16, 2009
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Apr 21, 2009
- Length: 08:11
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Apr 11, 2009
- Length: 07:48
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 06, 2009
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"
Bought by WCNY, Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more
- Added: Apr 02, 2009
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 12
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein's most recent CD begins with the French Suite No. 5 by Bach. Here's her brief translation of the French in the French S...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :21
Dvorak's "New World" Symphony is at the top of nearly everyone's "Hit Parade" - and his other big symphonies and the Cello Concerto are not far beh...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :26
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 29, 2009
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 16, 2009
- Length: 07:13
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 16, 2009
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 01, 2009
- Length: 07:57
- Purchases: 3
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Feb 26, 2009
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Feb 17, 2009
- Length: 07:14
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Feb 17, 2009
- Length: 08:39
- Purchases: 2
