We open the show with “The Purest Kind of Guy,” performed by Paul Robeson, a song from Marc Blitzstein’s 1941 opera No For An Answer which concerns the life and fate of members of a social club of Greek-American waiters, hotel-workers, restaurant-workers, chefs, laundresses, chambermaids, taxi-drivers, who are out-of-work. In 1958, Blitzstein was subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. House …
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Our opening song is “The Day After the Revolution” by Pulp…The Revolution begins and ends with you. Today we highlight four past programs on Revolution. This is our Fund Drive Show. Please support Interchange: call us at 812.323.1200 or make a secure online pledge. Thanks! SEGMENT ONE: France (The Terror and the Revolution) Our first Revolution is the paradigm for …
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This is the final Tuesday in February and so also our last show dedicated to highlighting our past programs detailing key figures and moments in Black History in the United States. So far this month we’ve heard Gerald Horne proclaim that the American Revolution was guided by a backlash to England’s abolitionism; that the US needed to be free to …
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