Our current series for KEXP Documentaries is Civil Rights Songs.
Pete Seeger was a leading activist in the fight for unions in the 1940’s. In the 50’s his folk band The Weavers were blacklisted — forbidden to play any commercial gigs — for being part of the communist party. The Weavers broke up in [...]
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Every week KEXP brings you a musical subject in the time it takes to play just one song.
We call these stories KEXP Documentaries. They’re a mix of interviews, storytelling and music.
The current series “Civil Rights Songs” is by far the most difficult subject I’ve ever researched. The crimes done to African-Americans during [...]
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When you enter the room, it’s filled with people of all ages strumming away on guitars. In the middle of the group is a raised wooden box, used as a sort of stage, filled with dancers. They’re drumming with their feet while they dance. The energy of the room is intoxicating. And you’re immediately [...]
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Hello, Michele Myers here. Your friendly neighborhood DJ and Documentary Producer.
My job at KEXP (when I’m not DJing) is to make a KEXP Documentary every week. Each story is about 5 minutes long and is on a musical subject. We do these in series of 10. Over the years I’ve [...]
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Hello, Michele Myers here. I produce a KEXP Documentary, a short radio story on a musical subject ,every week. Our current series is called Psychedelics. So far we’ve profiled The Flaming Lips, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, Sly and The Family Stone, The Beatles, The Orb and The Velvet Underground. And [...]
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Hello KEXPers, DJ Michele Myers here. I host a radio show on KEXP every Saturday from 3-6pm. The rest of the week, my job at KEXP is to make radio documentaries. Our current doc series is Psychedelics, where we have (so far) traced the path of psychedelic music from the 60’s [...]
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Each week the KEXP Documentary team brings you a musical subject in the time it takes to play just one song. This past week, we ran a vintage feature from our Masters of Turntablism series. This series has been used in classrooms to teach middle school and high school students. It was also [...]
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Hello, Michele Myers here. I produce a KEXP Documentary every week. Each one is a short story (5-8 minutes long) on a musical subject. We do these series in batches of 10. Some of my favorite series so far have been: Punk Evolution, The Heart of Soul, Masters of Turntablism and Portraits of [...]
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September 2, 2009
I’m John Felthous, and I work on the KEXP documentary team. Each week we produce a short radio story on a musical subject. Our current series is Psychedelics, where we trace the origins of psych music from 1966 until today. This past week’s story is about a band that lit up the stage at [...]
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August 26, 2009
I’m John Felthous, and I work on the KEXP Documentary team. Each week we produce a short radio story on a musical subject. Our current series is Psychedelics, where we trace the origins of psych music from 1966 until today. This past week’s story was on one of the top-selling rock groups of all [...]
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