KFAI's MinneCulture Presents

Let Me Postpone Christmas This Year by Various Artists. For the yuletide this year, we're spinning a cup of holiday un-cheer. A collection of mostly forty-fives to fit the mood and situation of the current season featuring songs by The Orioles, Khruangbin, The Mills Brothers, James Brown, George Baker, The Manhattans , and The Emotions. Plus, wintery tunes from Vashti Bunyan, Yoko Ono, The Blue Diamonds, Radka Toneff , and you're not going to want to miss Hands and Knees' " James Brown Died on Christmas Day." Obviously, the hour will culminate with Mutabaruka's "Postpone Christmas"- as you would expect. Please stay safe everyone and have a somewhat happy holiday. "Someday soon we all will be together If the fates allow Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow So have yourself a merry little Christmas now"

I Am All Day and Night by Philip Coulter. This month, we will be airing a three-part series examining the legacy of iconoclast Frank Zappa . The extraordinary musician was born on December 21st in Baltimore, Maryland. In December of 1993, he died just shortly before his 53rd birthday. This year marks what would have been his 80th birthday. Frank Zappa incorporated many genres in his sound and left an indelible mark on the American music scene. He embraced everything from rhythm and blues, to do-wop, jazz, and classical. He made popular music that was challenging alongside serious music that was easy to listen to. The series  written, narrated, and produced by Philip Coulter  explores Zappa as a composer, through the memories of some of the people who knew him best: his family, his friends, and the musicians who worked with him. You’ll hear from Zappa’s wife, Gail Zappa, Ruth Underwood , the percussionist who first heard him at a famous concert at the Garrick Theatre in 196...

Darwin's Enduring Legacy from Sara Wolch. Seth Feldman leads us on an aural exploration of Darwin's life and asks, "Why Science and society are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea." This is the final chapter of our four-part series produced by Sara Wolch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for their program  Ideas . It was made to mark the 150th Anniversary of Darwin's book ' The Origin of Species ' back in 2009. We'll hear how his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection completely shattered the way we thought about the natural world and how its ideas continue to reverberate today.

The Evolution of Darwin: Primates vs Primates  from Ideas In this episode, we'll hear what On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life  purported -- as well as what was being said about it. The book was first published in November of 1859, twenty-three years after Darwin's  famed voyage on the HMS Beagle had returned home to England. Seth Feldman guides us on this exploration of Charles Darwin's life and his  revolutionary thinking  produced for the CBC.

The Evolution of Darwin: From the Beagle to the Book from Ideas Part two in a series of tributes dedicated to the life and adventures of influential British scientist Charles Darwin. His book, On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection , directly contradicted contemporary religious beliefs and commonly held biological understandings. As this installment begins, Darwin has been offered a chance to work as an unpaid naturalist on a world-wide voyage. When the HMS Beagle set sail on December 27th, 1831, Charles was just twenty-two. Produced by Sara Wolch for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's program Ideas .

The Evolution of Darwin: The Prepared Mind from Ideas Part one of a four-episode series which serves a tribute to the influential British naturalist Charles Darwin and his earth-shattering book, 'On the Origin of Species.' Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection completely changed the way we think about the world. Seth Feldman guides us through Darwin's life and his revolutionary ideas. 'The Evolution of Darwin' was produced for the CBC Radio by Sara Wolch. This installment, The Prepared Mind, takes us from Darwin’s early years to his voyage of discovery aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.

A Brief History of Women in Bars: A Minnesota Story in Three Rounds from MinneCulture One hundred years ago, two major constitutional amendments went into effect. The 18th marked the start of Prohibition and the 19th granted many women the right to vote. It wasn’t a coincidence that these laws went into effect adjacent to one another. The movements were linked in some surprising ways. In this new documentary , Fulbright Fellow, historian, and podcaster Katie Thornton looks at how the state’s temperance movement set the stage for its women’s suffrage movement. But she also looks at how temperance leaders—and, by proxy, many early suffragists—failed to engage many women who weren’t wealthy, White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The Minnesota women who didn’t fit that bill empowered themselves in other ways—sometimes through the economic and social opportunities presented by the alcohol industry. The Bootleg Cocktail from MN90 Ah, the good old Prohibition days. Liquor was illegal and everyo...