Arts & Culture
by PRI Public Radio International
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Description
PRI’s Arts & Culture iTunes U course brings you engaging stories from a range of PRI programs, including Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, PRI’s The World, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. This collection creates a unique glimpse of the art, literature, film and shared social experiences that shape our world.
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Cuba Stories: Hemingway's Cuban Home | Ernest Hemingway spent two decades of his life on this farm just outside of Havana. You can still find folks who remember him. American preservationists have now been given permission by the U.S. government to restore Hemingway's former home. | 9/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cuba Stories: Life and Music | Elizabeth Ross and Lisa Mullins experience some of Cuba's art and culture: a vintage recording studio, classic cars, ballet, the San Carlos de la Cabana Fort, the Shrine of Saint Lazarus at El Rincon and a park in Havana with a statue of John Lennon. | 9/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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East Meets West: Dharma Days, Yoga Nights | Dharma days, yoga nights: a look at America's romance with Eastern spirituality | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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East Meets West: Culture in the Crossroads | Culture in the crossroads: a "Bollywood" filmmaker talks about cross-cultural movies, a Pakistani comedian find the funny side of Islam, and an Iraqi heavy-metal band feels the noise. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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East Meets West: The New Silk Road | The new silk road: The ancient rading routes through Persia, India and China were once the crossroads between East and West. Is the blogosphere the new Silk Road? | 9/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kind of Blue | Even if you’ve never bought a jazz album in your life, you’ve heard Miles Davis’ masterpiece, "Kind of Blue." As part of Studio 360’s award-winning series on American Icons, Ave Carrillo examines what it is that makes "Kind of Blue" so extraordina | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tramp | With just a derby hat, mustache, floppy shoes, and his own physical genius, Charlie Chaplin created silent film's most memorable character, the Tramp. The Tramp hardly made it out of the silent film age, he's never left the world's imagination. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gone With the Wind | For a time, Margaret Mitchell’s saga of the antebellum South was the second bestselling book next to the Bible. Her book beat out Faulkner’s classic Absalom, Absalom for the 1936 Pulitzer. Karen Frillmann takes a look at how it still speaks to reader | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Campbell's Soup Cans | Andy Warhol painted Campbell's soup cans around the same time he was painting other celebrities. Warhol said he painted soup because he ate it for lunch, but the paintings -- and their artistic legacy -- remain mysterious more than 40 years later. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Appalachian Spring | In 1942, Aaron Copland accepted a commission to write the score for a new dance by modernist Martha Graham. Their now-legendary ballet looks at the tension between community and individualism through the story of a bride and groom in a frontier town. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fallingwater | In the late 1930s, Edgar Kaufman asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a country home by a waterfall. Wright built the house over the waterfall -- and an icon of American architecture was born. Peter Crimmins explores the home known as "Fallingwater." | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emily Dickinson | After Emily Dickinson died, nearly two thousand poems were found in her bureau. In a surprising number of those poems, Emily Dickinson was writing from beyond the grave. Studio 360 takes a closer look at "Because I Could Not Stop for Death." | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barbie | How did the Barbie doll become such a powerful symbol and ubiquitous toy? For our ongoing series on American Icons, we look at how Barbie started, how she endured, and what her future may hold. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Henry | The story of John Henry has come to represent the heroic struggle of men and women against encroaching technology, and the loss of jobs. Studio 360 traces the ballad of John Henry back to its origins - a cautionary tale about working too hard. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Episodes |
