Best Noel Cunningham Podcasts (2026)

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Throwback Celebrating the Holidays in the Caribbean 5:57

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Celebrate the holidays with us with a throwback episode as we open a window onto a season where streets become stages, kitchens turn into archives, and every drumbeat and carol carries a story. From the clatter of cowbells in Nassau to the smoky crackle of a roast pig on Christmas Eve, the region’s …

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Frances Klein (Of the Alaskan Rural, the Quantifying Work That Poets Do Best, and the Emotional Intensity of Writing Labor) 1:03:07

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: Three Poems by Frances Klein at Cultural Daily Purchase: Another Life (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2025) Frances Klein is an Alaskan poet and teacher. Klein is the author of the poetry collection Another Life (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2025). She is also the author of …

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School Hair Codes, Colonial Respectability, And Caribbean Rights with amílcar peter sanatan 42:53

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. A school bans “edges,” a graduation blocks braids, a child with locks is told to stay home—on the surface, they’re dress code debates. Look closer and you see a lineage of power: colonial respectability, “imperial cleanliness,” and the policing of Black and Brown bodies through hair. We sit down wit…

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VALERIO SANNICANDRO - Instrumental & Vocal Works

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Programme de VALERIO SANNICANDRO pour webSYNradio : Instrumental & Vocal Works. Les deux playlists élaborées pour webSYNradio — Instrumental Work et Vocal Work — rassemblent un ensemble d'œuvres composées au fil des dernières années pour des formations variées, allant de la musique de chambre au grand orchestre, avec ou sans dispositifs électroniqu…

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Reclaiming Caribbean Architecture with Professor Dahlia Nduom 51:12

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. A building can be history you can walk through, and in the Caribbean those stories are contested, resilient, and alive. With Professor Dahlia Nduom, we explore how colonial styles, tourist imagery, and community ingenuity have shaped what gets built and what gets erased as we move from great houses …

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FELIX BLUME - Rituels funeraires

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Programme de FELIX BLUME pour webSYNradio : Rituels funeraires . Le compagnonnage de Websynradio avec Felix Blume se poursuit en empruntant les routes de l'au delà et se pose à Haiti, au Congo, au Chili, en Equateur. Grâce à l'écoute attentive que Félix développe dans son travail de documentariste et d'artiste sonore, nous sommes invités dans des r…

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Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules) 1:01:16

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Mother Water Ash" (Poets.org) Purchase: MOTHER WATER ASH(Louisiana State University Press 2024) Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, most recently MOTHER WATER ASH(Louisiana State University Press 2024), as well as OF MARRIAG…

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We Will Rise Again: A Post-Melissa Reflection 12:52

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. A storm can level homes, but it also reveals what we stand on. Hurricane Melissa’s record winds and devastating surge tore through Jamaica and neighboring territories, but the story is bigger than wind speed—it’s a living history of language, science, memory, and community that runs through the Cari…

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LanD ExcapE (Gavino GANAU / Giovanni DIBELTULU) - Ogni cosa è un segnale

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Programme de LanD ExcapE (Gavino GANAU / Giovanni DIBELTULU) pour webSYNradio : Ogni cosa è un segnale. L’intention de cette playlist inédite et originale élaborée pour webSYNradio est donc de proposer des suggestions sonores, en utilisant des langages qui stimulent la réflexion sur le monde d’aujourd’hui, sur ce qui se passe, et sur la manière don…

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Three Hundred-Year Fight For Sovereignty with Dr. Garrey Dennie 45:26

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Sacred land, contested memory, and a centuries-long fight for sovereignty, this conversation with Dr. Garrey Dennie traces the deep antiquity of the Kalinago in St. Vincent, their transformation into a maritime powerhouse, and the strategic choices that delayed European domination for generations. I…

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Natalie Solmer (Of Genealogies of Water, the Great Lakes and Diane Seuss, and the Working Class, Rural Lyric) 1:06:17

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Water Castle by Natalie Solmer (Kelsay Books, 2024) Read: "I Am a Great Lake" (MER) Natalie Solmer was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a granddaughter of Polish and German immigrants. She worked in the field of horticulture for many years, including 13 year…

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Where Land, Memory, and Medicine Meet with Aleya Fraser 33:34

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What if the medicine you need was growing right outside your door? We sit down with author and farmer Aleya Fraser to trace the living thread of Caribbean herbalism as she details in her new book Caribbean Herbalism: Traditional Wisdom and Modern Herbal Healing. Together, we unpack the tension betwe…

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Sarah Green (Of Dictionaries, Salvage and Destruction, and the Longing to Make Something Good) 1:02:40

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize) Sarah Green is the author of an April 2025 release, The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize) and a previous collection, Earth Science. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Paris Review, New Ohio Rev…

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Beyond the Canon: Unearthing Early Caribbean Literary Treasures with Dr. Alison Donnell 42:31

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What if everything we thought we knew about Caribbean literary history was incomplete? That's the premise of today's captivating conversation with Professor Alison Donnell, whose groundbreaking new book, Lost and Found: An A to Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean (Papillote Press 2025…

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Donna Vorreyer (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts) 1:12:56

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025) Read: "Dysmorphia (Autumn)" at Harpur Palate Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Unrivered ( 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of…

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Cuban and Puerto Rican Cinema's Political Lens with Dr. Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez 55:54

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. In the mid-20th century Caribbean, cinema became a powerful tool for nation-building, education, and political messaging through two remarkable organizations with surprisingly parallel methods but divergent ideologies. Dr. Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez joins us for this enchanting history in celebrat…

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DEAN ROSENTHAL - Field Recordings & électroacoustique

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Programme de Dean Rosenthal pour webSYNradio : Field Recordings & électroacoustique. Le travail présenté ici s’étend sur près d’un quart de siècle et comprend des pièces emblématiques de Dean Rosenthal entre field recordings et musique electroacoustique. https://synradio.fr/dean-rosenthal-field-recordings-et-electroacoustique/…

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Caribbean Horror: Bringing Folklore to Film with Alyscia Cunningham 24:03

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Storytelling lies at the heart of Caribbean identity. Award-winning filmmaker Alyscia Cunningham joins us to unravel the power of Caribbean folklore through the lens of modern cinema. As a first-generation Trinidadian-American, Cunningham's childhood was filled with spine-tingling tales from her par…

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From Jamaica to England: Documenting Caribbean Family Histories with Calvin Walker 33:15

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. When we lose a loved one, the stories they carried often disappear with them—unless we find ways to preserve them. This powerful truth drives creative consultant Calvin Walker's experimental audio project "Daylight Come," which traces his family's migration from Jamaica to the United Kingdom and con…

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Jameela F. Dallis (Of Oysters, Ekphrasis, and Filtering Emotion through The Beasts of the Sea) 1:06:40

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Encounters for the Living and the Dead (River River Books, 2025) Jameela F. Dallis lives in Durham, NC. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, The Fight and the Fiddle, Our State, W…

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The Art of Truth: How Documentary Filmmaking Captures Caribbean Political Movements with Richard Vaughan 30:17

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What drives someone to pick up a camera and document untold Caribbean history with no formal training? For Richard Vaughn, it was a simple realization: the political stories that shaped the modern Caribbean were either missing from film archives or told through a heavily biased lens. Vaughn takes us…

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E.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts) 50:22

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Field Notes(River River Books, 2025) E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, includ…

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Six Days That Shook Trinidad: The 1990 Coup Attempt with Eskor David Johnson 44:38

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Thirty-five years ago on July 27, 1990, Trinidad and Tobago experienced a shocking violation of its democratic foundations when Yasin Abu Bakr and the Jamaat al-Muslimeen stormed Parliament and the national television station, holding the Prime Minister hostage and declaring the government overthrow…

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Christen Noel Kauffman (Of Appalachian Poetics, American Evangelicalism, and Writing About Subjects We're Not Supposed to Speak Of) 58:05

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Faith Test" at The Florida Review Online Purchase: The Science of Things We Can Believe (Ghost Peach Press, 2024) Christen Noel Kauffmanis author of The Science of Things We Can Believe which won the Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry chosen by Tiana Clark (2024) and t…

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The Chain is Broken: Emancipation Day and Dutch and Danish Colonial Legacies 8:59

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Freedom wasn't granted—it was seized through blood, sweat, and unwavering resistance. Across the Dutch and Danish Caribbean colonies, enslaved Africans fought against brutal systems of oppression that are often overshadowed in mainstream historical narratives focused on British, Spanish, and French …

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Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley's Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes) 51:05

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner (Lynx House Press, 2024) Read: “Annie Oakley’s Bullet Inventory” Jet Fuel Review Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan …

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PASCAL DELEUZE - Mon tout premier bruit

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Pièce inédite de Pascal Deleuze pour webSYNradio : mon tout premier bruit. Lamentation pour un deuil impossible, cette pièce pour trompette en multipistes est aussi bien la trompe des légions romaines que la voix du kaddish de Maurice Ravel.Pascal Deleuze : trompette, voix. Guillaume Contré : enregistrement, montage, mixage. https://synradio.fr/pas…

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Caribbean Airmen: Untold Stories of World War Heroes with John Concagh 53:24

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. When we picture World War I and II, we rarely envision Caribbean soldiers in RAF uniforms flying bombing missions over Nazi Germany or Trinidad's oil refineries fueling the Battle of Britain. Yet these overlooked contributions not only helped defeat fascism but transformed the Caribbean's political …

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From Colonial Marines to Caribbean Pioneers: The Merikins of Trinidad 11:03

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Caribbean American Heritage Month invites us to explore the rich tapestry of identities that shape our diaspora experience. In this episode, we uncover the fascinating yet often overlooked story of "The Merikins" – formerly enslaved Black people who joined British forces during the War of 1812 and l…

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Rachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others', and Having It Out With Melancholy) 1:10:08

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Practice Elegy" at Copper Nickel Purchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021); The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, the …

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Between Two Empires: The Battle for Freedom in the Atlantic World with Matthew Taylor 46:56

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. The forgotten liberation of thousands stands at the intersection of British military history and the African diaspora. When historian Matthew Taylor stumbled upon brief mentions of Black soldiers in British uniform during the War of 1812, he brought to light an extraordinary story of self-emancipati…

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Han VanderHart (Of Larks, Genealogy and Truth as a Poetics, and the Line) with Guest Host Amorak Huey 53:10

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Today's episode of Of Poetry is hosted by Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack), the author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). -- Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025) Read: "Larks" at Poetry Daily Han VanderHartis a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, Larks…

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Our Culture Doesn't Break, It Transforms: Evolving Caribbean Identity 9:35

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What remains of Caribbean identity when our most treasured traditions begin to shift? Bridging thoughts from our recent episodes, I tackle this profound question on cultural evolution. Caribbean culture has never been static—born from struggle, layered with influences, and shaped by resistance, our …

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Karl Knights (Of Directness, the Music of Ordinary Language, and Writing Disability Poetics While Existing All Year) 1:10:14

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine) Purchase: Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022) Karl Knights’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, and…

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Philippe POIRIER - Un certain sentiment de la voix

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Playlist de Philippe Poirier pour webSYNradio avec trois de ses compositions entremêlés des sons de David Garland, Christopher Hobbs, Carlos Gardel, Philip Glass, Elvis Presley, Isidore Isou, Eric Satie, kristin Oppenheim, Sonic Youth, David Toop, Morton Feldman, Brooks Williams, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Marcel Broodthaers. Les morceaux choisis (pas to…

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The Caribbean Front Room as Architecture and Cultural Archive with Dr. Stacy Scott 45:28

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Step into the Caribbean front room – that formal, pristine space with plastic-covered furniture, carefully displayed china, and family photographs that many Caribbean descendants immediately recognize. Dr. Stacey Scott joins us to explore how this distinctive domestic space functions as both cultura…

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EMMANUEL MIEVILLE - DES AIRS URBAINS - City mix of analog machines

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Programme inédit de EMMANUEL MIEVILLE pour webSYNradio : DES AIRS URBAINS - City mix of analog machines. Ce mix inédit regroupe une sélection de pièces acousmatiques et concrètes, réalisées et éditées sous le label français Baskaru, et des compositions de musique concrète et de field recordings, capturées dans des environnements urbains (au Portuga…

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What Happens When Art Preserves What Nations Cannot? with Keisha Oliver 42:54

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. The Caribbean's artistic traditions reveal profound truths about our history, identity, and resilience. Keisha Oliver, PhD candidate at Penn State, joins Strictly Facts as we discuss Bahamian visual culture that challenges conventional understandings of Caribbean creativity. From the gendered practi…

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Danika Stegeman (Of Relentlessness, Gendered Maximalism, and Harryette Mullen and the Mirrored Cinquain) 1:09:02

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Ablation (11:11 Press) Read: "Relentless" (at cloak.wtf, the relentless reading experience) Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press November 1st, 2023. Her first book, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s a 2023 recipient o…

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GUILLAUME CONTRÉ - Petite machine de nuit

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Programme inédit de GUILLAUME CONTRÉ pour webSYNradio : PETITE MACHINE DE NUIT. Différences, répétitions, rouages, acouphènes et tautologies. Des sons hétéroclites, de la noble synthèse analogique au vulgaire bruit de micro, enregistrés à des moments divers pour des raisons variables, sont coupés, collés, montés, bouclés, superposés, filtrés, mixés…

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Split Me in Two: Exploring Dougla Identity in the Caribbean 7:50

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Have you ever wondered about the beautiful complexity that arises when different cultures blend? The Caribbean term "Dougla" captures exactly that—specifically describing people of mixed African and Indian heritage in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. Today we unpack this fascinating identi…

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PHILIPPE RAHM - La dissociation du réel

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Podcast de Philippe Rahm pour webSYNradio : LA DISSOCIATION DU REEL - Gerard Grisey, Partiels - Tristan Murail, Desintegration - Giacinto Scelsi, Ohoi - Anton Webern, Cinq pièces Op. 10 - Iannis Xenakis, Metastasis - György Ligeti, Atmosphères - Hugues Dufourt, Le Déluge - https://synradio.fr/philippe-rahm-2/…

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Banking on Community: The Caribbean's Alternative Economy with Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein 52:26

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. The Caribbean's financial revolution has been quietly unfolding for generations. We delve into the powerful world of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) known throughout the region as Padna, Susu, Boxhand, and countless other names. Dr. Caroline Hossein joins us as we reveal how these …

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FUKUSHIMA + 14 - Lectures en hommage aux Editions de Fukushima

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Programme inédit de lectures à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la catastrophe de Fukushima : cette année, SYNradio s'associe au projet Fukushima Open Sounds en rendant hommage aux Éditions de Fukushima qui autour de la bonne volonté de quelques militants travaillent à garder un focus sur cette catastrophe toujours en cours.Les premiers lecteurs: Ka…

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How One Pregnant Woman Helped Lead a Revolution: The Story of Lumina Sophie 10:04

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Dive into the extraordinary story of Lumina Sophie (1848-1879), a lesser-known yet powerful figure in Caribbean history, as we explore her inspiring journey during a time of revolutionary fervor. Born in a post-emancipation Martinique, Sophie defied traditional gender roles by leading a revolt for l…

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upfromsumdirt (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture) 1:31:23

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020) Read: poems from "Fayre Gabbro Suite" (Ice Floe Press) upfromsumdirt is a speculative poet & visual artist …

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A Brief History of the West India Regiments with Isaac Crichlow 43:14

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Join Strictly Facts as we uncover the hidden stories of the Caribbean's military past, featuring the intriguing West India Regiments established by the British Army. Our guest, Isaac Crichlow, a graduate student from the University College of London, helps us explore the paradoxical roles of these s…

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Sarah Carey (Of Sandhill Cranes, the Pleasure of Fresh Words, and Writing after Loss) 1:06:23

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: The Grief Committee Minutes by Sarah Carey (Saint Julian Press, 2024) Read: "What We Read About Ukraine Makes Us Dream of Burning" by Sarah Carey (Gulf Coast) Sarah Carey is an award-winning veterinary public relations specialist, science writer and Pushcart-nomina…

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Corrie Williamson (Of Wilderness, Animal Bodies, and Ecotones of Harm) 56:27

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025) Read: "You're Hoarding Guns, I'm Growing Herbs" (Kenyon Review) Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Your Mother’s Bear Gun, w…

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How Faith Built Bridges for Black Unity in the Guianas with Dr. Briana Royster 42:32

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Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Journey through Black history and Caribbean connections, revealing the incredible legacy of Black missionaries in the British and Dutch Guianas. Dr. Briana Royster joins us to discuss how the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the National Baptist Convention played pivotal roles in connecting Af…