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For listeners of Studio 360, weâre featuring an episode from the new PRX podcast Monumental.
The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and the sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?
Monumental interrogates the state of American monuments and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S
In this episode, we uncover the story of the only successful coup dâetat ever to happen on American soil. This act of racial violence was designed to eliminate all memory of a highly successful Black community in Wilmington, North Carolina back in 1898. That suppression involved racist mobs, as well as historians, city planners, journalists and countless others. They conspired for decades to make a Black communityâs onetime prosperity and strength unimaginable. Almost unimaginable.
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Hello Studio 360 fans!
We're sharing the first episode of a new podcast project, Nixon at War, hosted by Studio 360's Kurt Andersen. Nixon at War is a seven-episode history, a fresh new kind of chronicle about how Richard Nixon turned Vietnam into a war at home⊠that weâre still fighting today.
Most accounts of the collapse of Richard Nixonâs presidency begin with Watergate - the now iconic tale of a bungled break-in and the misbegotten cover-up that followed. But what led to Watergate? How - and more puzzlingly, why - did one of the shrewdest, most gifted political figures of his time become embroiled in so manifestly lunatic an enterprise in the first place?
Intrigued by that question, novelist and historian Kurt Andersen takes a deep dive into the vast archives at the Nixon Library and emerges with an answer he wasnât expecting: While Watergate doubtless accelerated Nixonâs spectacular fall, it was the Vietnam War that led inexorably to the break-in, and from there to the sinking of his presidency.
At the heart of the series are hundreds of tape recordings from the time. Buried, never before heard, confidential conversations that play like dark drama. To listen to the new series, visit NixonAtWar.org, or search "Nixon at War" wherever youâre listening.
After 20 years, Studio 360 is switching off the ON AIR light one last time. Alec Baldwin conducts Kurt Andersenâs exit interview and they listen to some of Kurtâs favorite moments with guests. Since itâs this showâs finale, Kurt talks with TV showrunners David Mandel and Warren Leight about the art of writing a finale â and some of their favorites to watch. And finally â for real, finally â a longtime friend of Kurt whom he met when he first interviewed her for the show, Rosanne Cash, comes back one last time to say farewell with a song.
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From 1910 to 1970, 6.6 million African Americans migrated from the rural south â a dramatic movement that would permanently change the social, political and cultural fabric of our nation. In 1941, Jacob Lawerenceâs iconic series The Migration of the Negro (now generally referred to as The Great Migration) rocked the art world with its depictions of an active moment very much underway. Over the course of 60 panels, the hardships of the South, the disappointments of the North, and the first steps of the Civil Rights movement are masterfully displayed.
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Studio 360 broadcast its first episode on November 4, 2000, just before we elected George W. Bush as President and we all learned what a âhanging chadâ was. Fittingly, that first program was an exploration of art and politics hosted by a newcomer to radio, author and journalist Kurt Andersen.
Originally produced out of WNYC Radio, and most recently a Slate podcast, Studio 360 looks at the cool, but complicated, and sometimes strange ways that art touches our lives. Two decades later that mission hasnât changed even if the people making the show have come and gone. The showâs current Executive Producer Jocelyn Gonzales was a still-wet-behind-the-ears associate producer when the show debuted. As Studio 360 comes to a close after 20 years on the air, she turned to her colleagues from the earliest days of the show for their impressions.
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How Public Enemy brought the revolution to hip-hop with âIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.â Plus, our Americans Icons segment on Maya Angelouâs âI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,â which broke boundaries when it was published and still profoundly resonates with readers today. And Young Adult author Angie Thomas on how the late TLC performer Lisa âLeft Eyeâ Lopes spoke to her at a very troubling point in her life.
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New York was the original center of American moviemaking. But soon filmmakers figured out it was cheaper and simpler to work in Californiaâs open spaces and good weather. With the westward migration, however, certain types of filmmakers were still drawn to New York. They found a home at Paramountâs âBig House,â a grand movie studio built by Adolph Zukor during the silent film heyday in Astoria, Queens. That studio still stands and now operates as Kaufman Astoria Studios. For a hundred years, Astoria has been the East Coast alternative for artists who choose to be in New York.
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Where do you turn when youâre heartbroken in the dead of night? Delilah, of course. Her radio call-in show pairs romantic advice with the perfect song. Plus, how Yanni, John Tesh and others discovered an improbable vehicle to â90s stardom: the PBS pledge drive. For our Guilty Pleasures series, the writer and âThis American Lifeâ producer Bim Adewunmi explains how the âSweet Valley Highâ series is kind of preposterous and over-the-top â and completely obsessed her.
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Itâs all about the Oscars. Kurt talks with Thelma Schoonmaker, the longtime editor for Martin Scorsese whoâs up for an Academy Award for âThe Irishmanâ; Adam Driver, whoâs a contender for his performance in âMarriage Storyâ; Quentin Tarantino, nominated for his film, âOnce Upon a Time⊠in Hollywoodâ; and Antonio Banderas, nominated for his performance in âPain & Glory.â Plus, the surprising story behind the man who actually posed for the sculpture that became the Oscar statue. And we meet Mark Sussman, the voiceover actor who overdubs Brad Pittâs profane lines for the versions of his movies that run on airplanes and on television.
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This Womanâs Work is a series of stories from Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360, highlighting classic albums by female artists who have made a lasting impact on music and pop culture. This time: the Grammy nominated live album âBlack Goldâ by singer and pianist Nina Simone. It was recorded in front of a packed audience at Philharmonic Hall in New York City on October 26, 1969 and released in 1970. âBlack Goldâ displays Nina Simoneâs talents at interpreting a song, not to mention her range, moving from soul and gospel to show tunes and folk music. Through it all, her distinctive voice soars into moments of defiance and uplift. Political activist and scholar Angela Davis says Simoneâs influence extends beyond her musical gifts. âI don't think I have ever met anyone before meeting Nina Simone who was so focused on using her talents to change the world. She wanted to use her music, use her voice, use her capacity to create new worlds.â
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For our latest installment of American Icons, Studio 360âs Sam Kim explores â12 Angry Men,â the courtroom drama that has inspired jurists â and Hollywood script writers â for decades. And how Kris Maddigan, a first-time video game composer, wrote a 3-hour long jazz album for the popular indie game Cuphead.
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