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How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever

Season 1 Episode 32

11:46

Noise and Experimental Music Is for Everyone

Season 2 Episode 1

12:44

Why Puerto Rican Bomba Music Is Resistance

Season 2 Episode 2

10:57

Why Is Jersey Club Music Everywhere?

Season 2 Episode 3

15:47

Jazz Shaped Hip-Hop, but How Did Hip-Hop Change Jazz?

Season 2 Episode 4

20:44

The Genius of Fela Kuti and Afrobeat

Season 2 Episode 5

16:35

Why Is Für Elise so Famous? (And Is It Overrated?)

Season 2 Episode 6

15:08

Do You Know How Much Classical Music Is Edited?

Season 2 Episode 7

16:57

How Did Auto-Tune Revolutionize the Music Industry?

Season 3 Episode 1

11:37

How Black Culture Influenced Drumline

Season 3 Episode 2

9:48

How Did Pop Music Evolve into HYPERPOP?

Season 3 Episode 3

10:49

How Do R&B Singers Create Background Vocals? ft. Linda Diaz

Season 3 Episode 4

8:26

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Is Indie a Music Genre?

Season 1 Episode 31

Independent, or "Indie" music, has a broad definition that can be applied across genres and regions. So what makes indie music indie? LA Buckner interviews Quinn Christopherson, an up-and-coming indie musician in Anchorage, Alaska and 2019 NPR Tiny Desk Contest winner, about what it's like to create DIY music. Together they create their own indie song that you can hear at the end of the video.