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09/10/2018

Giant Steps

Getting hip to jazz

by Matt Hanson

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04/04/2016

Two-Seam Tunes

The shared history of baseball and music

by Colin Fleming

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03/17/2016

The Poets Low Rate

Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and the politics of poetry

by Charles Molesworth

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03/02/2016

The Hughes Blues

On the minimization of Langston Hughes’s legacy as a master of modern poetry

by Richard Abowitz

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04/29/2014

A Cosmic Centennial

Celebrating the 100th birthday (the first of several) of Sun Ra, the self-proclaimed visitor from Saturn and prolific composer.

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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10/09/2012

20th Century Man

Not an ideal communist

by Morgan Meis

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10/20/2010

Live from Fargo

Take Duke Ellington, two college friends, and a North Dakota dance hall...

by Colin Fleming

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06/23/2009

Surf’s Up

The Ventures' "Walk Don't Run."

by Morgan Meis

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