Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:07 — 42.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ll open with “Tensions” by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released in 1960 on the album Blues & Roots. About the album Mingus wrote that it’s “unusual” presenting only one aspect of his musical world, the blues. “Some people, particularly critics, were saying I didn’t swing …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:24 — 45.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDirect action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling class, apartheid violence of white South Africa sits a play with a seeming taste for moderation and order in debate, and the recognition of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02 — 802.4KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNext time on Interchange: “Do you bite your thumb at us, Sir?” What is Civil Discourse and why do politicians and pundits seem to resort to admonishment when discourse gets messy and less than civil. Also, what is civility in the first place and who gets to …
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