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Psychology of Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Jazz and the Visual Arts
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
05 Lubliner Nign
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
04 Lustig Zayn
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
03 Simkes Hanefesh
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
02 Sofia's Song
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
01 Shtayn Gart's
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
Ethiopian Teenager Provides Strength for Fellow Refugees
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Generation Change
Caption: 19 year-old Refugee Sadia Happi
The Kakuma camp is home to refugees from many different countries and ethnic groups. Despite the trials she's faced, 19-year-old Sadia Happi faces ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KWMR-FM, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 3
Doing It Ourselves
From: Destination DIY
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Shiro plums picked by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (after this photo was taken)
Doing it Ourselves: What it really takes to work, play and live together. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting as part of a series of 5...

Bought by WRVO, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KLCC, KUT, WYSO and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Representing Yourself
From: Destination DIY
Series: Destination DIY
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Representing Yourself is a DIY project we do in all kinds of ways — in job interviews, on stage, in court and through visual art such as self-portr...

Bought by WRVO, KUT, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
DIY Rituals
From: Destination DIY
Series: Destination DIY
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We depend on all kinds of secular and spiritual rituals to mark the ends and beginnings of things. Sometimes this means following a long-standing t...

Bought by WRVO, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WYSO, WRVO, KUT and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
DIY Economy
From: Destination DIY
Series: Destination DIY
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by WRVO, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
You Got Served!
From: RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
Caption: WeHigh intern Aarti Chandorkar with TIPS executive director Cathy Michelac
Hosts Aarti Chandorkar and Sarah Dillard kick off the second week of Summer Soundwave with a show that'll make you feel good! Join Aarti as she pro...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Aug 09, 2010
  • Length: 17:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Fishbowl Theory
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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There seems to be an obsession with youth that is prevalent in Hip-Hop culture today. Its originators are now in their thirties and fourties, yet t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 15:14
  • Purchases: 1
Dollar Storeys- The Golden Mug Award
From: David Weinberg
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My contributution to the third coast project Dollar Storeys

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:30
Episode 4 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 4 features Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins and William Stafford. Optional 5-minute drop-in also available.

Bought by KWIT, North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
  • Purchases: 9