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Great Jazz Cities: Chicago
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by WRGY, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Comedy in Current Events
From: Radio K
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The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
Obscurity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s dancers
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
This Week in Texas Music History: Laura Canales
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week In Texas Music History: J.R. Baxter
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of December (12/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped build a gospel music empire.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Creaky Boards and Cobwebs
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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From our show on Homeownership: Film Critic David Edelstein talks about the most efficient foreclosure artist in history - Ghosts.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:35
  • Purchases: 1
Tito Puente
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: "King of the Timbales," Tito Puente
Tito Puente is the undisputed king of Latin music in the hearts of most Americans. But beyond that public persona, he was also a prolific composer,...

Bought by WNCU, KZYX, KDRP Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Video Arcades
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Since their rise with the release of the 1978 game Space Invaders, video arcades have evolved alongside home gaming systems.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
Revivalist Radio...on Stage
From: Daniel Gross
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It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz's Lost and Found
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: A disc from the recently discovered Savory Collection., Credit: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
This week on the show, it's an hour of long lost finds from jazz's lost and found bin—from a recently discovered cache of forgotten 1930s radio br...

Bought by KZYX, WNCU, WCMU Public Radio, KPVL, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Step Right Up!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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The Big Apple and Ringling Bros. are two of the few remaining travelling circuses left in the country. Elliot Majerczyk spoke with a man who teache...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
The Beatles: Every Little Thing - Episode 5
From: Andy Cahn
Series: The Beatles: Every Little Thing
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Includes a few demo recordings, a musical pair from 1974, and a thematic set of Beatles/solo music in which the only two Beatles on record are Paul...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Beatles: Every Little Thing - Episode 4
From: Andy Cahn
Series: The Beatles: Every Little Thing
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ELT 4 includes a "Songs Within Songs" set (songs with references to other Beatles songs in the lyrics,) plus a two-fer from a John Lennon collectio...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Beatles: Every Little Thing - Episode 3
From: Andy Cahn
Series: The Beatles: Every Little Thing
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ELT 3 includes a Beatles "Home"-themed set, and Ringo Starr discussing songs from his 2010 album "Y Not."

Bought by KUT and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Beatles: Every Little Thing - Episode 2
From: Andy Cahn
Series: The Beatles: Every Little Thing
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This show includes a sampling of the Beatles' work with Eric Clapton, and a few songs from 2010 remasters from John and Paul.

Bought by KUT and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Beatles: Every Little Thing - Episode 1
From: Andy Cahn
Series: The Beatles: Every Little Thing
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Our debut show includes a Beatles/solo Peace music set, we'll get Anthologized, and hear a Beatles cover from the Smithereens.

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:06
  • Purchases: 3
Castle in the Wilderness
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Our History
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The history of Hibbing High School with local historian Dan Bergen and photographer Larry Ryan.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 19:10
Selling Texas Kitsch at SXSW
From: Michael Lee
Caption: Boots at Allen's Boots in South Austin, Credit: Nathan Bernier
Every year, thousands of people flock to Austin from all over the world for South by Southwest Music, which officially gets underway today. Many v...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Reenacting Like They're Related
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Confederate Civil War reenactors in Maine? The 15th Alabama is the largest Confederate Civil War reenacting group in the state.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
J Street, Traffic Circles & The Swamp That Never Was
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
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Was DC really built on a swamp? Why does the grid system have no J Street? And what's up with all those crazy traffic circles?

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WAMC, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 3
A HALLOWEEN INVASION FROM MARS
From: Dick Meister
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For stations that may be planning to broadcast the CD or other recording of Orson Welles' famed 1938 Halloween eve broadcast of his adaption of H.G...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
Fire
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fire, from a chemical perspective

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
Venice Beach Freak Show
From: Briana O'Higgins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look into the contemporary Freak Show

Bought by WILL and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
Ballroom Redux
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat Goes On #102: "Jukebox Jamboree"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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Great songs about the jukebox from a wide variety of musical genres.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1