James and Sean use their audio archeology skills to take you on another time travel adventure with original recordings from the distant past. This time we visit 1896 and 1897, hear the birth pangs of something not yet called ragtime, find out the true origins of ‘The Laughing Policeman’ and hear some jokes so rude …
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The CoS Tapes are a series of CD-sized compilations available to Centuries of Sounds Members. A donation $5 per month will give you access to these compilations and other member benefits. Join here. Trailblazing artists are usually better-remembered than Vess L. Ossman. The first musician to make a ragtime record, the ‘King of the Banjo’, …
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Centuries of Sound is two years old now. I have made mixtapes / soundscapes for the years 1859 to 1909, plus 2016 and 2017. All of these will remain freely accessible without any advertising. But from the first of next month there will be a huge amount of other material available for anyone who becomes …
MP3 (full mix) | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) So, were you expecting 1910? Well the bad news is that it’s going to be another month until that’s ready. The good news is that I have finally finished this mix for 2017. It has been a bit of a monster, or a menace, is …
James and Sean continue their voyage into the distant history of sound recording. This time we cover the years 1894 and 1895, a time of popular unrest, great literature, and a burgeoning wax cylinder market, with at least two songs bound to be familiar to listeners in 2018. Also, as ever, plenty of Americans with …
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Zinaida Serebriakova — At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait Ambrose McEvoy — Euphemia Anna Archer – The Artist’s Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room Henri Matisse — The Conversation Giacomo Balla — Street Light George Bellows – Blue Morning Pablo Picasso – Brick Factory at Tortosa Henri Rousseau – The Banks of the Bièvre near …
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy Les Joyeux microbes A Trap For Santa Le Locataire diabolique The Sealed Room The Cowboy Millionaire Teddy Roosevelt in Africa Fools of Fate La Papillon Fantastique Mr Flip The Red Man’s View The Airship Destroyer The Hessian Renegades Oliver Twist The Doctor’s Secret The Golden Louis A Midsummer Night’s …
Day: Wednesday 26th December 2018 Time: 9pm GMT Place: 105fm in Cambridge, on Digital Radio, Smart TVs and radio apps, or online at https://cambridge105.co.uk/radioplayer/ In this special festive episode of Centuries of Sound, James and Sean take a break from the era of wax cylinders and marching bands to review some of the (perhaps) more …
The true pioneering heroes of the Edwardian Era were not The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. This supposedly tranquil time was in truth the most turbulent age of social activism between the Civil War and the 1960s, and naturally the real drivers of this new “Progressive” age were less likely to be old, …
You may already have heard the inception myth of the teddy bear. Teddy Roosevelt, the definitive POTUS and all round man’s man, out on one of his regular hunting trips, refuses to kill a female bear as it has a young cub. A political cartoonist uses the story to illustrate Roosevelt’s humanity and sense of …
