Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art Sources: https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/ https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/ Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard Andy Cohen, personal correspondence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four)

For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/ https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison. Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html]  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/]  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/]  https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy [https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy]  https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys [https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys]  https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys [https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys]  https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Two Stories from Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer

Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.