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Power Play explores stories about the power of music, the music of the powerful, music as a means to power, and what happens when music and power go head to head.

Previous Episodes

• Spirituals: The Power of Community and Music (Part 2) · October 3, 2022
• Spirituals: The Power of Community and Music (Part 1) · September 26, 2022
• The Birth of Church Music: Purpose, Polyphony, and the Forming of New Art · December 30, 2021
• Pirate Radio: Tales from the UK Radio Rebellion · August 18, 2020
• Chen Yi: Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Confronting Legacies of Imperialism, and Making Asian-American Music · August 4, 2020
• Leon Theremin: Espionage, Stalinism and Sci-fi Sounds · July 21, 2020
• Karl Muck: An American Dream, Xenophobia and the Music of the Third Reich · July 7, 2020
• Nina Simone and Taking the Politics of Black Culture Seriously · June 23, 2020
• Calypso: Race, Land, and Politics through Journalistic Music · June 9, 2020