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Early Bluegrass is often viewed as a post WWII idiom reflecting great changes in the US. With that in mind, it makes sense that early bluegrass is ...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 04:50
Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 16:26
This week on The Spanish Hour, 20th-century orchestral works by three generations of Spain's most original composers: Isaac Albéniz, Antón García A...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 58:30
Women stay in jobs longer then men, even when they're inwardly itching to leave. In this show, we ask why. And we meet former Wall Street analyst ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 16:30
Classical New England's Cheryl Willoughby is your tour guide for a seasonal sleigh ride around the region, visiting the unique places where live Ch...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
Manuel de Falla's 1919 ballet "Three-Cornered Hat," José Luis Greco's 1998 Violin Concerto "Ardor"
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 58:30
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
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- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 20:26
- Purchases: 1
The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.
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- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 1
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 06:23
On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we’ll get a taste of some of Paquito D’Rivera’s evocative classical compositions.
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 58:30
For Lincoln native Alex Pickerel, the reasons for dropping out of high school went beyond merely not liking school. A series of bad turns in his li...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:21
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school dist...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:01
One city's struggle to regain its economic footing is also tied to significant problems in its schools. Jeffrey Brown reports from Reading, Pa., as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Dis...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
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A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:20
Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Now, he's a sociology...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:54
Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities thro...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 05:46
For the second week of April (4/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a crooning cowboy who sang both English and Spanish.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
A "newsical" overview of the news media craze for stories about animals, our own personal relationships with animals and my own experience as a per...
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 56:21
Have you noticed? No matter what else is going on in the world...the cable news channels and the network evening news broadcasts always have time f...
- Added: Mar 10, 2012
- Length: 56:05
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 11:37
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- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 12:10
- Purchases: 1
