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How Jazz Changed

Produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Blue Note Records is the label that’s most closely associated with Bebop, the jangling, improvisational, small-group style of jazz from the late 1950s and early 1960s that has come to define jazz for many. This story looks at how this form of music came to be. It is narrated by NPR’s Susan Stamberg.

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Finding Jazz

Produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. You can find the music published on legendary Blue Note Records in the strangest places today. Searching and finding this music demonstrates to a younger generation the potency of jazz. This story is narrated by NPR’s Susan Stamberg.

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Birth of a Legend

Produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Imagine creating a place where you and your friends spent half of every day listening to the kind of music you love best, and the other half convincing everybody else in the world how amazing that music is. Then imagine if at the end of that, they called you a legend. Well in 1939, a man named Alfred Lion created a place exactly like that. The place was a record company called Blue Note, and 75 years later, both it and he are considered legendary. Susan Stamberg narrates this look at the history of Blue Note Records..

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Our Own Voices With Our Own Tongues

OthelloThis podcast, part of the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series for the Folger Shakespeare Library, revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and 1950s. Rebecca Sheir talks about black Americans and Shakespeare in that time with two scholars of the period, Marvin MacAllister and Ayanna Thompson.

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Does It Swing?

Part of the series “Swing, Swing, Swing” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, narrated by Connaitre Miller of Howard University.  There’s a question every good jazz musician can answer just by listening to a song: “Does it Swing?” In this episode, we introduce several kinds of vintage and modern swing music: Swing Jazz, Western Swing, Gypsy Swing, and New Jack Swing and learn what music needs to have in order to “Swing.”

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Swing Jazz

Part of the series “Swing, Swing, Swing” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, narrated by Connaitre Miller of Howard University.  “Swing” took over the jazz world in the 1930s and became the music your great-grandparents danced to during World War II. In this episode, modern day Swing performers explain and demonstrate where Swing Jazz came from, why it was so popular, and where you can find it today.

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Western Swing

Part of the series “Swing, Swing, Swing” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, narrated by Connaitre Miller of Howard University.  In n the 1930s, two types of American music, the rural Country/Western and the urban Swing Jazz, were combined to create Western Swing, a popular type of music that crossed racial boundaries. In this episode we’ll learn about the roots of Western Swing, and hear the music of its most famous performer, Bob Wills.

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Instruments of India

Ranked at #4 of all iTunes K-12 Education audio podcasts and #2 for the combined iTunes audio and video catalogue in 2011.

Part of the series “maximum India” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, narrated by Hari Sreenivasan, from the PBS NewsHour.  Do you know which drum can speak? Or what instrument is made from a pumpkin? In this segment, we’ll learn about the many instruments that define the sounds of Indian music, and how they are played: the tabla, sitar, tanpura, sarangi, mizhavu, naal, dhol, pung and the double-flute sitara, who’s players can perform without stopping to breathe.

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Genres of Indian Music

Ranked at #4 of all iTunes K-12 Education audio podcasts and #2 for the combined iTunes audio and video catalogue in 2011.

Part of the series “maximum India” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, narrated by Hari Sreenivasan,
from the PBS NewsHour.  The geographic, language, and cultural diversity of India contributes to a broad range of musical styles within Indian music. Certain folk styles and traditions of music important to one region may be virtually unknown in others. In this segment, we’ll learn about many common elements of Indian music — ragas, drones, improvisation, and the celebrity of being a Bollywood playback singer.

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Uniqueness of Indian Music

Ranked at #4 of all iTunes K-12 Education audio podcasts and #2 for the combined iTunes audio and video catalogue in 2011.

Part of the series “maximum India” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, narrated by Hari Sreenivasan,
from the PBS NewsHour.  Indian music typically contains no harmony, can be completely improvised, and is rarely written down. So how do Indian musicians manage to play together? In this segment, we’ll learn about rhythmic patterns called taal, music unique to certain communities and even times of the year, and if deep-rooted musical traditions can continue as India undergoes fast-paced growth and modernization.

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