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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:59 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe open with music composed by Sol Kaplan for the film Salt of the Earth. Kaplan was blacklisted in the 1950s for being “uncooperative” to HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee. The rest of our music will feature the work of other blacklisted artists and performers; Hazel …