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  The Emancipation of Slaves...

  Mathew Knowles

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  In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in the industry, he exposes the art form's true power. Between its informative pages, the book explores the uprooting of Africans via the transatlantic slave trade and the evolving effect on the people and their music. We follow the boats where communication went from a loud moan to chants that stirred rebellion, on into acts of escape where a song might just signal a time to flee.The music of those stolen people became a tool and a medicinal balm that usually carried a message of hope through struggle. Chapters delve into songs behind rebellions and 'sorrow songs,' that lead us to deeper understandings about modern rap and even dancehall 'chanting.' Here, the reader takes a ride on the melodic voices and rhythms seeking freedom for more than physical bodies from chains. The survival of an enslaved people's music through many tumultuous eras has allowed it to re-root into a musical culture like no other in history.

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  Our Miss Brooks and the School...

  Carl Amari

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  The chairman of the State Board of Education is coming for a visit on Our Miss Brooks. We'll also hear a conversation Carl had with one of the program's stars, Richard Crenna. Plus, Suspense, The Cisco Kid, and Broadway is My Beat.
  A Falcon Picture Group audio production.

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  Aeschylus II - The Oresteia

  Aeschylus Aeschylus

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  This updated translation of the Oresteia trilogy and fragments of the satyr play Proteus includes an extensive historical and critical introduction.  
   
  In the third edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining their vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. 
   
  Each volume also includes an introduction to the life and work of the tragedian and an explanation of how the plays were first staged, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. The result is a series of lively and authoritative translations offering a comprehensive introduction to these foundational works of Western drama.

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  Why We Build - Power and Desire...

  Rowan Moore

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  In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today.We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight in exotic locales or here in the United States.Now, in a bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore—former director of the Architecture Foundation, now the architecture critic for The Observer—explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment of Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; across the world to assess a software magnate’s grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libeskind’s failed design for the World Trade Center site; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era.

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  The Amazing Mr Malone

  Carl Amari

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  This week on H360, we’ll solve a mystery with The Amazing Mr. Malone, and have a few laughs on The Charlie McCarthy Show. Plus, Fort Laramie, Curtain Time, The Great Gildersleeve and Crime Classics.A Falcon Picture Group audio production.

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  Die Mommie Die

  Charles Busch

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  Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father’s death and convinced of her mother’s guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp sendup where tongues aren’t the only thing dipped in acid.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2019.Directed by Carl AndressWith original music and songs by Lewis FlinnProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergCharles Busch as Angela Arden SussmanMark Capri as Tony ParkerWillie Garson as Sol SussmanEllis Greer as Edith SussmanJeffery Self as Lance SussmanRuth Williamson as BootsieAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Brian Wallace. Production Manager, Zack Myers. Editor, Julian Nicholson.  “The Missing Girl” performed by Mary Birdsong, music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn.“The Salt and Pepper Polka” performed by Mary Birdsong,music by Lewis Flinn, lyrics by Dick Gallagher and Charles Busch.

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