Archive for February, 2010
Yehudi Wyner’s life in music: a composer with piano hands
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Yehudi Wyner (55 min, 33 mb mp3)
Yehudi Wyner is an approachable guy in a forbidding field: contemporary “serious” music. He gives us an opening here to ask where new sounds come from. In his case new music comes out of a sort of compost of …
Ghana Speaks (V): The Radio Voices of Cape Coast
Mike Serwornoo makes radio conversation in Ghana that the wide world could join, love and enrich.
Ghana Speaks (IV): … and Koo Nimo plays guitar and sings
Koo Nimo is Ghana's most revered traditional musician -- and a giant of "world music" that embraces all without compromising his own sound.
Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam’s Model of African Self-Sufficiency
Dr. Kofi Sam presents an African self-sufficiency model to beat a different AIDS: the Acquired Import Dependency Syndrome.
Ghana Speaking (II): Village Living in Kwabeng
Chris Lydon's take on a visit to Kwabeng in the Eastern Region of Ghana: there's much good living yet to be done in village Africa.
Ghana Speaking (I): The "living wound" at Cape Coast Castle
Ghana Speaking: at the infamous Cape Coast Castle where millions of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas, the poet Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang talks about "the living wound."
McChesney and Nichols: $30-billion to save journalism
Robert McChesney and John Nichols ride to the rescue of our broken journalism with a $30-billion subsidy idea.
