PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 03:00
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
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- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 05:20
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 44:31
In a recent visit to Cologne, Germany, producer Dred-Scott Keyes spoke with three Afro-German men: Joe Otoyo, Denis Nunekpeku and Ermias Bilai abou...
- Added: Apr 13, 2013
- Length: 59:57
Join host Bill Bulbeck as he explores the life, times and music from the reigning "Queen of Gospel" Shirley Caesar in Episode #2 of Christian Minst...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 54:55
The story of Julia Ward Howe's 1871 Proclamation for Peace and her call for a universal Mother's Day to promote peace and disarmament, plus the aut...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Andy features songs w/themes of sadness & loss to courage & defiance.
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- Added: Apr 05, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Music and comments that take your listeners into the heart of America.
Bought by WRFA-LP, Northstate Public Radio, KHNS, Moab Public Radio, KUCB and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 57:25
- Purchases: 14
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...
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- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUOW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...
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- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
We go way back in time for this very special show, featuring true stories from the 1930's and 40's, told by the Southerners who lived them. Stories...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 34:00
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:50
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
