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You’ll Be Mine: Bringing Musical Tourism To West Memphis
From: Eleanor Boudreau
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Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
Roots Thinning In Rural America
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Robert Penn Warren Archive Humanizes Leaders Of The Civil Rights Movement
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
Art Blakey on How to Build a Band
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"You’re in your birthday suit up there. People can see clean through you. And your music, your actions and the vibes you bring forth to the audienc...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Birth of the Cool, Birth of the School: Indiana and the Rise of Jazz Education
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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The fourth and final installment of the Jazz Crossroads of America series. In the 1960s universities began to establish jazz education programs, an...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Ron Carter: In his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Ron Carter is an icon of jazz. He has played his bass on more than 2000 albums. His name, however, is most vividly linked with Miles Davis. Carte...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Randy Weston Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz. It's a tribute to the pianist’s music, featuring recordings from Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd, Booker Ervin, Be...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
The King at Midpoint: Benny Carter
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the mid-1940s - early-1960s music of saxophonist Benny Carter, in big-band, vocalist, and small-gro...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the music and story of the premiere all-woman big band of the 1940s.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WPTC, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Juke In The Back #044
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
The entire "Juke In The Back" focuses on a tiny Chicago R&B record label with a big sound; Parrot Records. The label was started by Chicago DJ Al ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 2
Crescent City Blues
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues
Caption: Patrons at Young at Heart Club in New Orleans' Pigeontown neighborhood., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Crescent City Blues takes listeners to the hidden world of New Orleans corner joints—bars far from the French Quarter, in neighborhoods like Centra...

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WUIS, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KRCB-FM, WUMB and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 14
The Benny Golson Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hourlong program of classic jazz featuring Benny Golson's work from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Is Our Town Our Town?
From: Philip Graitcer
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town is the most produced play in America, but does it need an update for today's America?

Bought by WAMC, New Hampshire Public Radio, WILL, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 4
The Best-Known Unknown in Show Business: Thelma Carpenter
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow: Jazz and American Popular Song
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An hour-long program of jazz and American popular song featuring singer and actress Thelma Carpenter. Perfect for Women's History Month (March) or...

Bought by WUIS, 90.5 WSNC, KUNR, and WVAS


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Water Music
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Richmond Virginia's Folk Festival led to the creation of a sister city relationship with Segou, Mali. In time, these two cities will be exchanging ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 27:41
Charles McPherson’s Post-Bird Bop
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring Charlie Parker-disciple and alto saxophonist Charles McPherson’s 1960s and 70s recordings.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 58:57
Memories Of Michael Jackson's Music
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Young voices reflect on the late, great, King of Pop.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 02:39
The Man Before Miles: Freddie Webster
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Hour-long program of classic jazz featuring the life and work of trumpeter Freddie Webster.

Bought by WPTC and KUNR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tia Fuller
From: Reese Erlich
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Tia Fuller plays sax with Biance's band and heads her own jazz group. She talks about problems women face as jazz artists.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Nuevo South
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
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An un-narrated portrait of a Southern town in transition

Bought by KFAI and KPFA


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
Can You Hear Me?
From: Claire Schoen
Series: ILLUMINATIONS: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World
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"Can Your Hear Me?" is an hour-long audio documentary exploring the history of conflict and coalition between Blacks and Jews in America.

Bought by WUIS, PRX to iTunes, KWMR-FM, WMUB, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
To Dream an Anarchist's Dream...
From: Mary Rose Madden
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Anarchists in Baltimore try to open and run a totally free store

Bought by KFAI and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 2
Racial Cleansing in America
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
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A short doc exploring the curious legacy of a "racial cleansing" in a small Kentucky town.

Bought by WRPI, KFAI, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 14, 2007
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 3
Jews & Blues: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written

Bought by KSFR, WNIJ, WNPR, CBC Inside the Music, WJFF and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:30
  • Purchases: 11