We investigate the rich seam of royalty in British literature, and examine Englishness through the lens of folk song, with Steve Roud and the singer Rachel Unthank
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/jun/01/royalty-english-literature-folk-song-podcast
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We talk to the Civil Wars about signing bagels, get the history of hip-hop mixtapes and vote on Jack White in Singles Club
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2012/mar/23/music-weekly-podcast-civil-wars
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The blind folk musician from North Carolina revolutionized not just how people play guitar but the way people around the world think about mountain music. He was 89 years old.
His manager said in a statement that Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, after abdominal surgery last week.
Watson was born in Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a three-room house he shared with eight brothers and sisters. He revolutionized not just how people play guitar but the way people around the world think about mountain music.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/05/29/153697428/doc-watson-folk-music-icon-dies-at-89
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Music is more than just pitch and rhythm, timbre and tempo. Music can comfort. Or annoy. It helps us celebrate – and mourn. Music can foster a sense of group identity. (Consider national anthems.)
Are human beings hard-wired to enjoy music? What role did music play in the evolution of human societies? What would life be without music?
In this World Science Forum, we talk to Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist at McGill University. He’s an expert on music cognition and the author of two books: This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs.
Levitin argues that music is at the heart of human nature. The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee spoke with Levitin for The World Science Podcast.
http://www.world-science.org/forum/music-brain-daniel-levitin/