The Dust-to-Digital label is at the forefront of a new school of record labels that scours the world’s music bins to discover, polish and bring to light forgotten music.
New conflict in Kachin State shows how hard reform in Myanmar will be.
Costumed cartoon characters delight the tourists in Times Square. Many of the people inside those costumes are undocumented workers from Latin America. Reporter Bruce Wallace tells their stories.
Reporter Bruce Wallace met up with the Virginia-based band Bio Ritmo that plays what iTunes calls “Indie Salsa.”
A centuries-old style of poetry is inspiring new music and TV drama in Brazil.
A long-serving Burmese diplomat ended his career last weekend and has decided to defect to the US.
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India has hundreds of languages and dialects. Audio recordings were made a century ago in an attempt to document them and they have just come to light. Bruce Wallace reports. Download MP3
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Bruce Wallace reports on jazz concerts being hosted by the Turkish Embassy in DC. The performaces commemorate a series of ground-breaking concerts organized in the 1930′s by the sons of Ambassador Mehmet Ertegun. Ahmet Ertegun went on to form Atlantic Records. Download MP3
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Reporter Bruce Wallace introduces us to violinist Shayan Parsai. He is an accomplished western classical violinist, but has recently started delving into Persian classical music. Download MP3
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Bruce Wallace reports on an anthology of Afghan-American writing, which collects a raft of poems, fiction, essays, and blog posts from mostly younger writers. They represent the first real blossoming of this literature. Much of the writing addresses the difficulties of adapting to life in the US, as well as the difficulties of going back to Afghanistan. Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Misery caused by the BP oil spill could inspire a song. In fact, some Spanish-speaking fishermen or Isleños in Louisiana have a centuries-old songwriting tradition. Their ancestors brought it from the Canary Islands. It’s an unusual ten-line song form called decima. But the songs, like the fishing, are becoming part of history. Bruce Wallace has more. (flickr image: Alysha Jordan) Download MP3 >>>LISTEN: Hear stories of drinking and bug-exterminatingAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, is being retold in a new graphic novel that’s set to hit book stores around the world. Reporter Bruce Wallace has the story. (Artwork by Mukesh Singh. 18 DAYS © 2010 Liquid Comics LLC & Perspective Studios. All Rights Reserved) Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Kyaw Zaw Lwin (left), Khin Ohmar (middle) from The Forum for Democracy in Burma and Tate Naing, Secretary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma). Photo: courtesy of Wa Wa Kyaw”
