Episode 6

An episode of the Tapestry of the Times podcast, hosted by Smithsonian Folkways, titled "Episode 6" was published on August 20, 2011 and runs 59 minutes.

August 20, 2011 ·59m · Tapestry of the Times

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Summary

French Carpenter plays the fiddle tune that won his grandfather’s release from a Civil War prison camp, Texas Gladden sings of a mother’s spectral encounter with the ghosts of her children, Hatian Vodou practitioners sing a funerary song to release the spirits of the dead and Indonesian pop legend Rhoma Irama.

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French Carpenter plays the fiddle tune that won his grandfather’s release from a Civil War prison camp, Texas Gladden sings of a mother’s spectral encounter with the ghosts of her children, Hatian Vodou practitioners sing a funerary song to release the spirits of the dead and Indonesian pop legend Rhoma Irama.

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