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Meet The Music: A Cappella to Zydeco
Join our musical journey as Meet The Music explores the hundreds of musical genres from A Cappella to Zydeco. Listeners gain insights into familiar and unfamiliar musical genres. In each episode, we share in-depth conversations on a variety of topics with influencers, insiders, music critics, and music artists about a particular genre.
Episodes
33 episodes
Go-Go music with DC’s DJ King Nick Kannon
This episode of Meet the Music brings to the mic the DMV's DJ King Nick Kannon. DJ Kannon talks about the early Washington, DC Go-Go scene, his rise to the Co-Founder of Bounce Beat records, and his joy of still moving a crowd every night...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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44:59
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Genre-Bending with Dr. Jack Hamilton
Who should have the last word on labeling music? The music industry or the music consumer? Well, we will probably never know the answer anytime in the near future, but the dialogue can lead to all involved taking note. Music C...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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55:10
The Concept of Genre-Bending with Dr. Rashad Shabazz
This episode of Meet the Music takes you into a potential paradigm shift in the music industry. Listen as Dr. Rashad Shabazz shares insight into the concept of genre-blending and how the artist Prince is an example. Dr. Shabazz shar...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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42:13
The Birth of Rock N Roll, The Black Roots with Author Denise Sullivan
American music journalist and historian Denise Sullivan talks about the early influences on what we call Rock and Roll music genre, her insight is informative and her passion for all music is contagious. Just listen to the list of a...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:03:08
Rhythm and Blues 1940 to 1960 with Dr Tim Dodge
This week's episode is a fact-packed and educational podcast on the birth of Rhythm and Blues. Once again, Dr. Dodge doesn't disappoint. All we can say is listen and learn as we have a honest conversation about the birth of Rhythm a...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:03:38
R&B: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Author Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation
American author, Distinguished Professor, and Host of Left of Black Dr. Mark Anthony Neal discusses how the R&B genre has a rich historical legacy in black popular music. Listen as we laugh about our youth and how we take a little det...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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30:29
Funk: Dr. Anthony “Tony” Bolden, Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk
Dr. Tony Bolden talks about his early days immersed in the land of FUNK. Listen as he provides insight into the history of FUNK music and explains FUNK as a philosophy. Be sure to visit his website phunkativity.org to discover more<...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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48:23
The Many Sounds of African American Music: Funk with Dr. Rickey Vincent
As we continue to conversate about different African American Music genres season this episode of Meet the Music features FUNK. The fact that he is the "Funkateer of The Year," Dr. Rickey Vincent talks all things funk. Listen as we ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:05:00
Rap and Hip Hop culture with Dr. Reiland Rabaka
Distinguished professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies Dr. Reiland Rabaka is this week's guest on Meet the Music. As he awaits the opening of the Center for African and African American Studies to support teaching and...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:14:20
The Many Sounds of the Caribbean: Bachata with Dr. Julie Sellers
In this week's episode, we explore the popular sounds of Bachata. Dr. Julie Sellers, talks all things Bachata, with a little Bolero music on the side. Listen as she shares her list for our introduction into Bachata.@julieas...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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36:07
The Many Sounds of the Caribbean: Calypso with Dr. Timothy Dodge
This week's guest on Meet the Music embodies many of the reasons we created this podcast. Dr. Timothy Dodge, the author of Rhythm and Blues Goes Calypso, which is considered a textbook, and shares the history of Calypso music. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:14:45
The Many Sounds of the Caribbean: Ska with Professor Heather Augustyn
Here at the start of Season 3, we meet Professor Heather Augustyn. Professor Augustyn shares insight from her extensive writings on Ska music. I hope after listening to our fun conversation you are inspired to create a Ska playlist....
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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46:49
Season 2 and the Seasons to Follow?
The closing of season 2 and the future seasons
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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6:00
Metal: Dr. Nick Perham, Cognitive Psychologist
In this episode of Meet the Music we approach a somewhat unfamiliar genre, and we sit down with Dr. Nick Perham who determined through research that Heavy Metal actually promotes generosity and scientific thinking. He shares his journey o...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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38:13
Meet the Music - Special Edition with DJ Holographic
This week's episode is a special edition of Meet the Music. Listen to the first-ever recorded conversation for Meet the Music. Find out why DJ Holographic was a very special guest.
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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42:29
Music and Spirituality? Dr. Martyn Percy, The Dean of Christ Church University of Oxford
In this episode, we had some recording challenges, which I hope is not too annoying.This week we close out our series on The Many Styles of Christian Music with The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy. Having Dr. Percy on this episod...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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47:58
Southern Gospel: Dr. James Goff, Jr Author Close Harmony, A History of Southern Gospel
As we continue our conversations around the Many Styles of Christian Music, in this week's episode of Meet the Music we speak to Professor Dr. James Goff, Jr. In his book Close Harmony, The History of Southern Gospel, Dr. Goff shares the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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56:38
Contemporary Gospel Music: Professor Robert Darden
Attention all! This is our second episode in our series of the Many Styles of Christian Music. This episode touches on the "protest" songs in Gospel music. But we also want to appeal to all you "Vinyl" collectors, enthusiasts,...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:11
Contemporary Gospel Music: Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard
In this episode, we begin our series, The many styles of Christian Music. Take a listen as Dr. Pollard shares the journey of Contemporary Gospel music. Listen as she shares what was the spark for writing her book, "When the Church B...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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40:40
The Blues: Dr. Elijah Wald, Author of Escaping the Delta
This week's episode of Meet the Music Listen as Dr. Wald talks about the Blues, Rhythm and Blues, about Robert Johnson's music journey, and shares a list of his music choices. Contextualized playlisthttps://www.yo...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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42:00
The Blues: Dr. Gary W. Burnett, The Gospel According to The Blues
Dr. Burnett shares a little history of the Blues and his deep love for the Blues. In our conversation, we discussed the impact of women blues singers like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Memphis Minnie. Listen as Dr. Burnett lists his ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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39:41
The Motown Sound: Adam White, Author of Motown: The Sound of Young America
Yes, The Motown Sound is considered a genre of music according to the website everynoise.com. Adam White talks in detail about one of the most recognized record labels in the world. Listen as Adam shares his love of Motown music, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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58:21
Reintroduction of Meet the Music
In this episode, we discuss what we discovered while recording season 1 and tease season 2 by sharing a couple of genres for upcoming episodes. We also give our email for feedback on each episode.djworldmusiclover@gmail.com
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3:08
Zydeco: Michael Tisserand, Author of The Kingdom of Zydeco
In this episode, Michael Tisserand shares from his book The Kingdom of Zydeco, the uniqueness of Zydeco music. His detailed narrative of the music and the musical culture will no doubt make you want to add a few Zydeco artist to your play...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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45:59
Zydeco: Lena Charles, Director Southwest Louisiana Music Festival
It's already the end of January 2021 and we are getting ready to move into February, Black History Month. Learn a little something about the Creole culture and the uniqueness of Zydeco music with Mrs. Lena Charles. Be sure to visit ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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39:29