Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words to her work.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hisham Aidi—an expert on globalization and social movements—discusses the role of hip hop in the French-Muslim community and the recent debates about the genre.
Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."
Chef Julie Sahni talks with Anne Strainchamps about Tandoori cooking which unites Kashmiris of all religions.
Patrick Neate explains how young people from around the world adapt hip-hop to address their own concerns.
John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.
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