History Lessons About Combatting Polarization in 2024 with Fareed Zakaria
From AI and tech innovations to the political and cultural climate during a critical election year, our modern world is constantly changing. However, within these revolutions comes a new level of polarization that has entered every aspect of life. What can the past teach us about combatting polarization and adapting to a changing America? CNN host, Washington Post columnist, and bestselling author Fareed Zakaria says that while there is no “correct” path, you have to embrace being open-minded and make compromises to find solutions. In this conversation with host and moderator-in-chief John Donvan, Zakaria discusses his new book “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present”, what led to us living in revolutionary times today, how past revolutions can help us understand our polarized present, and why despite it all, he’s still hopeful we’ll come out of the other side better for it.
Our Guest: Fareed Zakaria, Host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS; Author of “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present”
Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song
A two decade long staple on WWOZ in New Orleans, Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song features records coveted by collectors from the era when rock and roll was emerging but hadn’t yet settled on a definition of itself.
On Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song, listeners will hear music
- from before rock and roll was domesticated into a commercial music industry.
- when country and western sounded like swing,
- when pop music sounded like rockabilly,
- when rockabilly sounded like rhythm and blues,
- when doo wop sounded like girl groups,
and all those musics sounded an awful lot like what we now call “rock and roll.”
Not a hits, oldies, or “history of” radio show. it’s all the songs that influenced our now-legendary musicians who are regularly featured in all those hits, oldies, and “history of” radio shows.
P.S. We never find the first rock and roll song. Just like our journey through life, the search is the joy. Finding the final destination in life or music is something to continually delay until after next week’s episode.
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Take a trip through the history of recorded sound!
A FREE, daily, 90 second feature, Sound Beat feature never heard before rare gems from the Syracuse University Libraries’ Belfer Audio Archive, one of the largest sound archives in the U.S. – popular and classical music performances, film scores, jazz, bebop, country, bluegrass, and old favorites. Plus feature speeches and spoken word performances from some of the great thinkers, political figures and luminaries from the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries — like Thomas Edison, George Bernard Shaw, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and Teddy Roosevelt.
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LENGTH: 90 seconds COST: Free AVAILABLE: Download, AudioPort, Content Depot , PRX
Award-Winning Conversations, Diverse Topics.
Each week on With Good Reason scholars explore the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, and business through lively discussion with Host Sarah McConnell.
Join WAMU, WAMC, Kansas Public Radio, Utah Public Radio, and the 150+ stations across the country that are engaging their listeners with With Good Reason.
With Good Reason (weekly program, 1 hour or 30 minutes)
Top scholars explore the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, and business with Host Sarah McConnell guiding the lively conversation. From reparations and global warming, to the unique worlds of comic books and wine-making, With Good Reason is always surprising, challenging and fun.
LENGTH: 1 hour or 30 minutes COST: Free AVAILABLE: Content Depot, PRX, Download, AudioPort WEBSITE: withgoodreasonradio.org
The Best of Broadway and Hollywood
Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical
Public Radio’s Most Popular and Longest Running Broadway and Hollywood Musical Program
Since 1998, Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical has been presenting the best of Broadway and Hollywood, from the early 20th century to current hits: from Gershwin, Berlin and Rodgers & Hammerstein to Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The best of Broadway and Hollywood music including rarely heard recordings.
“Bill Rudman brings musical theater history to life with charm, wit, insight, warmth, convivial chat and a wealth of knowledge”.
Entertaining and insightful backstage stories, anecdotes, and historical perspectives from Host and Producer Bill Rudman, a nationally recognized authority on musical theatre.
“I don’t know which I prefer: the music or your informative and entertaining commentary. BOTH are excellent!”
Exclusive archival interviews with, and in-depth interviews with of such acclaimed artists as lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me), composer John Kander (Cabaret and Chicago) and singers Mandy Patinkin and the late Barbara Cook, and many more!
“Bill’s in-depth interviews with all manner of artists provide a permanent, irreplaceable archive.”
Cost: FREE
Length: 56:50
Available: PRX Automated Delivery, Downloads