All Of It with Alison Stewart

[RE-AIR FROM JANUARY 21, 2022] Julius Eastman was a Black, queer composer and a fixture of downtown New York's music scene in the 1970s, who died in 1990 in relative obscurity. Beginning last year, the Los Angeles-based music collective Wild Up has attempted to honor Eastman's legacy by recording and releasing his work in a seven-part series. Members Christopher Rountree and Jiji join us to discuss the second volume, Joy Boy, for an All Of It Listening Party. TK Shelley Washington joining as well.

An exhibition at The Met investigates industrial slavery in the American South and the artistic work of African American potters. The show features approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, a center of stoneware production in the decades before the Civil War. Curators Adrienne Spinozzi, Ethan Lasser and Jason Young join us to discuss the show, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina which is on display through Sunday, Feb. 5.

We air highlights from our live Get Lit with All Of It event with Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff. She joined us at the SNFL Rooftop Event Center to discuss her new book The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, which argues that Adams was the most radical of our Founding Fathers. Schiff speaks with Alison and takes questions from our audience!

Missed the event? Watch it in full here. To find out more about our Get Lit with All Of It book club, and our partnership with the New York Public Library, click here, and follow us on Instagram at @allofitwnyc.

Tony nominated playwright Bess Wohl is making her feature film directorial debut with "Baby Ruby," a thriller about a woman struggling with post-partum depression. The film stars Noémie Merlant and Kit Harrington and will be in theaters tomorrow. Wohl joins us to discuss.

Last week, New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra released her latest album, A Reckoning, a deeply self-reflective record with features from Pink Siifu and Erick The Architect. Kimbra joins us for a Listening Party, and will also be playing a show in New York at Webster Hall on February 16.

[REBROADCAST FROM January 27, 2022] Singer-songwriter Janis Ian released her self-titled debut album in 1967. Its single, "Society's Child," written by Ian when she was fourteen, would be one of her most lasting. In the next decade, she released the hit song, "At Seventeen." Now, she has said that her latest album, The Light at the End of the Line, will be her last. Ian joins us for a Listening Party, and we open the lines up for listeners to share their experiences with her music.

To round out our hour on Titanic, we're joined by Luis Ferreiro, Director-CEO of Muselia, the group behind Titanic. The Exhibition which combines over 200 objects with life-size recreations to tell the story of the doomed ship and the people who sailed upon it.

The parody musical "Titanique: Une Parodie Musicale" has amassed a bigger and bigger audience over the last few months, now playing an extended run at the Daryl Roth Theater. Created by Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli, and Tye Blue, the show uses the music of Celine Dion (played by Mindelle) to help narrate the story of Jack (Rousouli) and Rose... as told by Dion, who claims she was there for the whole thing. Mindelle, Rousouli, and Blue join us to discuss the show, which is running through May 14th.