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Caption: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Credit: Amanda Brown
"The fact is my parents lost all of their assets. If I didn't have something (I was) really into, in my case was piano and jazz, I think it would h...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:08
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Without Shiva's dance of destruction and Parvati's dance of seduction, we might be living in a world without drums. A meditation on the origins of ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone , Credit: ElJay A. on microphone
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone
The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This program's focus is Asia.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:32
Caption: Fres Thao
Hip hop in the Hmong community is alive and on the rise in the Twin Cities. KFAI producer Daniel Zamzow talked to artists and emcees Ge, YungFate, ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:13
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Elements of Indian music that make it unique.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 13:38
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A look at various music styles across India

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 14:48
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The Instruments that are unique to Indian Music.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 15:05
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KFOK-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 2
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A curious mixture of punk rock, localized ska, DIY pop, and cannabis-infused folk from the city of Chengdu, gateway to China's wild west.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode three explores the diversity of Beijing's underground music scene.

Bought by WNJR and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Episode two provides a frank appraisal of Maybe Mars, Beijing's most globally famous record label.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode one explores the old sounds that have influenced the new sounds of Chinese alternative music.

Bought by KUT and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
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The traditional Japanese drumming artform, taiko, has traveled far west to the Bay Area, where Japanese-American young people are taking it up as a...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 06:23
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Commemorate Chinese New Year with Music and Words

  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 59:01

  • Added: Jun 11, 2010
  • Length: 08:05
Caption: A photo of the Beijing rock band Hedgehog, taken from the book "Sound Kapital.", Credit: Matthew Niederhauser
A look at a fast-changing China through the lens of youth culture and rock music.

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:59
Caption: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Japan Agnes Chan visits a primary school in Somalia’s Statehouse Camp for displaced people, which was built by UNICEF with support from donor countries including Japan., Credit: UNICEF Japan/2010/Kaneko
Goodwill Ambassador for Japan Agnes Chan reflects on her travels on behalf of UNICEF

  • Added: Apr 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:40

  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Host Raakhi Sinha in Bhangra dancing action.
All aboard The Subcontinental, your South Asian music train! Second stop: Punjab, and the irresistible beats of Bhangra.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: 52:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Raakhi Sinha, host of The Subcontinental, breaks out the Bolly moves with her crew
All aboard The Subcontinental, your South Asian music train! First stop: Mumbai and the music of Bollywood.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bla Pahinui: Singer and Guitar Player, Credit: Jon de Mello | The Mountain Apple Company
Hawaiian singer and guitar player, Bla Pahinui, is known for his own distinct voice and for carrying on the legacy of his father, Gabby Pahinui, on...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 09:20