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Title: Studio 360: American Icons: Uncle Tom, John Henry, & Kind of Blue
Author: Kurt Andersen
Narrator: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-21-15
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
This week we bring you three American Icons, stories from our series on works of art that changed the way we think about America. In myth and song, John Henry was a railroad worker who raced the machine that was going to steal his job. He won the race, but it killed him. What does that say about the American work ethic? Harriet Beecher Stowes novel Uncle Toms Cabin spurred the abolitionist movement but the title character is now a vicious slur used against African-Americans. How did that happen? And we find out why Miles Daviss "Kind of Blue" became the one jazz record that even non-jazz fans own. [Broadcast Date: February 21, 2015]
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Title: Studio 360: American Icons: Uncle Tom, John Henry, & Kind of Blue
Author: Kurt Andersen
Narrator: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-21-15
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
This week we bring you three American Icons, stories from our series on works of art that changed the way we think about America. In myth and song, John Henry was a railroad worker who raced the machine that was going to steal his job. He won the race, but it killed him. What does that say about the American work ethic? Harriet Beecher Stowes novel Uncle Toms Cabin spurred the abolitionist movement but the title character is now a vicious slur used against African-Americans. How did that happen? And we find out why Miles Daviss "Kind of Blue" became the one jazz record that even non-jazz fans own. [Broadcast Date: February 21, 2015]
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©2015 Public Radio International, Inc.