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All Episodes

American Song — 61 episodes

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Meet Southern California Singer-Songwriter, Anson Corsair

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Independent Artists: A.J. Deiboldt - Nashville, TN

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Dancing Under Fire: Blood in the Groove — Los Prisioneros, Soda Stereo, D.A.F., and Brenda Fassie

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New Wave: The Conquerors - The Second British Invasion, and How Michael Jackson and Prince Broke Down the Walls at MTV

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The New Wave Fun House: Blondie, Talking Heads, DEVO, The Cars, Oingo Boingo

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New Wave — Up From the Ooze (How Kraftwerk, The Ramones, Television, Patti Smith and CBGB - a Twelve-Foot Room on the Bowery - Accidentally Invented the Future)

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The Greatest Music You've Never Heard: The Songs of Mark Davis (2)

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The Greatest Music You've Never Heard: The Songs of Mark Davis (1)

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Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Last Man Standing

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Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Breakups, Ghosts, and Trump’s America

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Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Darkness, The River, Nebraska, and Berlin ’88

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Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Born to Run, Bomb Scares, and the Edge of Fame

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Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Freehold to Cherry Hill

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Lives in the Balance: Jackson Browne and the Fight for America’s Soul

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Warren Zevon's Beautiful Wreckage

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God’s Song and Other American Prayers: The Story of Randy Newman

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If a Tree Falls: Bruce Cockburn and the Angry, Necessary Songs Nobody Else Would Write

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Save Something for Yourself: Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, and the Art of Radical Honesty

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Bob Dylan - America’s Nobel Poet Laureate

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The Minstrel and the Symphony: Jethro Tull, ELP, and Progressive Rock's Wilder Shores

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Close to the Edge: How Yes and Genesis Took Progressive Rock to Its Furthest Reaches

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From Kent State to King Crimson: How the Counterculture Invented Progressive Rock

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Punk - The Shot Heard Round the World

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From CBGB to Dublin to Odessa: The Ramones, Blondie, The Pogues, and Punk's Unstoppable Global Spread

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Coast to Coast Chaos: New York and LA Spark the American Punk Revolution!

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Sweet Home Alabama: Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Band, Charlie Daniels, and the Music of a South at War With Itself

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Southern Rock: Coming to Terms with a Complicated Past

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Redemption Song: The Life, Music, and Unstoppable Legacy of Bob Marley

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From Slavery to Ska: The Jamaican History That Made Reggae Inevitable

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The Masters of Funk: James Brown, the Meters, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton

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Reelin' in the Years: Steely Dan, Traffic, and Supertramp's Blueprint for the Perfect Record

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The Other Side of Fusion: Jazz Rock

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After Miles: Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, and Jazz Fusion's Golden Generation

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Bitches Brew: How Miles Davis Blew Up Jazz and Invented the Future

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Action: Reaction - American Bands and American Society Respond to the English Invasion

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America's Music Comes Home: The Beatles, the Stones, the Yardbirds, and How England Gave Us Back Our Rock and Roll

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Before the Beatles: How American Blues Conquered England First

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Puerto Ricans Sing Out for Justice.

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American Song and the Fight for Hispanic Equality.

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Land of A Thousand Dances - Latin American Music

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The Roots of Latin Music in the New World

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Folk Music Played the Changes in American Society.

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1960’s Folk Music: How the Fire Spread

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The Second Folk Revival – A Passing of the Torch.

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Musique Concrete: A Radical Re-Thinking of Sound and Performance

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The Celestial Pulse of Minimalism.

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When the World Was In Chaos, Music Became Atonal

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Special Feature: 1950's American Culture; the Seedbed of Rock and Roll

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Hail Hail Rock and Roll

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R&B Was Born on the American Song River

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Folk Music Stood For America

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Jazz in Defense of Equality and Justice For All

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The Rising of Gospel Music and How It Inspired the World.

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Country Music Blazes a Trail.

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The Duality of the Blues; Episode 7 of American Song

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The Classical-Jazz Affair

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The Early Days of Jazz

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The Early Days of Country Music

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The Roots of Jazz - Ragtime, Stride, Boogie Woogie and the Blues

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The Many Musical Threads in Our National Fabric; Early American Music by Region

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(If World Cultures Were Musical Notes), Early America Was a Ready-Made Symphony.