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Ryder Founder Peter LoPilato

On this week’s Inner States, producer Violet Baron takes us to rural southern Indiana, where Danny Cain still makes fishing nets by hand. Then we listen to a 2016 interview with Peter LoPilato, who founded the Ryder Magazine and Film Series. He passed away on March 7.

A Hoosier Painter, Electric Works Redevelopment, Pinball, and an espresso machine maker

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In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz singing. This week, we’ll explore some of those early solo recordings she made for Capitol Records.

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As cultural changes gained momentum in the 1960s, a generation of women artists made their way through a jazz world that had long been resistant to their aims.

From the The Howard Psalter and Hours, c.1310, (British Library, Arundel MS 83 II, f.14).

We're exploring how Renaissance musicians captured the sounds of animals in their music as we take a trip through a musical zoo. Along the way, we’ll hear the beautiful calls of the Nightingale, see the mighty crocodile, and hear a choir of all the animals singing together.

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Austin Davis reads from his book Compulsive Swim: "Layla and Her Kids" and "Act 3 poem VI," plus a new poem "healing is lonely."

Carmen McRae "After Glow"

Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Decca label in the 1950s.

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A celebration of rock 'n' roll in an emerging era of electric guitars, long-playing records, studio wizardry, and social change.

Fire! An American Burning

This week, Inner States presents Episode 3 of Fire!: An American Burning. Inferno at Whiting is about the 1955 Whiting Refinery fire in Whiting, Indiana. It’s also about how oil – and fire - are at the heart of the modern world.

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Lady Fortuna spinning her wheel from Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium

For hundreds of years, the goddess Fortune and her wheel have offered us a way to comprehend the unpredictability of life. This week on Harmonia, we’ll look back to the fourteenth century and explore the appearances of Fortune in music as people try to make sense of famine, plague, political and religious strife. Join us!

Picking wildflowers, sun low in sky

Shana Ritter reads "Poems from the other side," "A sad dusk," and "Wildflowers."

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This week, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland. We’ll chronicle her music career and feature many of her recordings from the 1940s to the 1960s

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In honor of the mid-'60s TV series, we stack a few classic 45s on the spindle and remember.

Hazel Scott Relaxed Piano Moods

Pianist Hazel Scott was a prodigy who rose to fame in the 1940s, swinging classical compositions, appearing in Hollywood movies, and becoming the first African-American to host a TV show.

Author Tess Gunty

Comedian Mohanad Elshieky explains the difference between comedy and therapy, and novelist Tess Gunty tells us why she set her National Book Award winning novel in Indiana.

Baritone David Drettwan (Onegin) and soprano SeonYoung Park (Tatiana)

IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater presents the timeless tragedy of one of Russian literature's "superfluous men."

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King David playing the zither

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” We’ll explore settings of the words of King David – psalms, laments, and music for his instrument—the harp. Our featured release is Sansara: Cloths of Heaven…on Harmonia.

Praying mantis lying on the ground

Josh Brewer reads "When I place talismans," “Dying Mantis,” “This Week in Northern Ireland,” and “The Bakeries of Warsaw.”

Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole

We pay tribute to the late singer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso, jazz, blues and more.

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The available bounty of the natural and the creative can sustain you season by season.

Early Charles Mingus Debut record

In 1952 bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach formed their own record company, in an attempt to assert creative and entrepreneurial control over their music.

Major Taylor on French track looking to infield

It's not the documentary, but the connections you help people make along the way.

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A man's race to the finish line, a presidential home, Evansville African American Museum.

How to Survive the Future Ep3: McCormick's Creek State Park

A walk in the woods with botanist Ellen Jacquart about 25 years in the future. And a conversation with the director of the new documentary, Major Taylor: Champion of the Race.

Pages from Allison Martino's Form and Surface

A new book about African ceramics across the continent, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Nigeria and Cameroon

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