Latest Billie holiday Podcast Episodes

Of Thee We Sing: Civil Rights on the B-Side

Of Thee We Sing: Music and the Civil Rights Movement - February 18, 2015 14:01 - 14 minutes
The Baylor University’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project has a massive collection of phonograph records made by African Americans in the '40s, '50s and '60s. The curator, Dr. Robert Darden, found that on the flip side of many of these 45 RPM records, there are Civil Rights songs that no on...

Of Thee We Sing: Strange Fruit

Of Thee We Sing: Music and the Civil Rights Movement - February 11, 2015 14:01 - 12 minutes
The lynching of black men in the American South was an all-too-familiar occurrence in the 1930s, even though it rarely made news. So when Billie Holiday had a hit record with the song Strange Fruit, it brought attention to this important issue in unusual ways.

Of Thee We Sing: Marian Anderson

Of Thee We Sing: Music and the Civil Rights Movement - February 04, 2015 14:01 - 15 minutes
On Sunday, April 9th, 1939, a huge, mixed race crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to witness an extraordinary event. At a time when African-Americans were not allowed vote, go to school or use the same toilet as white people, black contralto Marian Anderson stood in front of 75,000 people and...