Shake, Rattle, and Roll - Snap Classic

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Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A rock band from Zimbabwe becomes the voice of a revolution. And a New York Rabbi has his faith tested when he takes a job helping a member of the KKK. What happens when you try to hold your ground, but that same ground crumbles beneath you?

STORIES

Fault Lines

Glynn goes on a date...and things get shaky.

Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Zim Heavy: Rock and Revolution in Zimbabwe

Before there was Zimbabwe, there was the “Heavy” scene. In the 1970’s, Rock music rang out from the black townships in Rhodesia. One band, Wells Fargo, became the voice of the people. Founding members Ebba Chitambo and Never Mpofu tell their story of music and revolution in the face of an oppressive government.

Listen to Wells Fargo’s release "Watch Out!" Learn more about the work Matthew Shechmeister and Eothen “Egon” Alapatt are doing to document the Heavy scene at Now-Again Records.

Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Correspondent: Albert Nyathi

Featuring Music by Wells Fargo courtesy of Now-Again Records

Rabbi And The KKK

A New York Rabbi has his faith tested when he takes a job in Nebraska.

Produced by Anna Sussman, original music by Leon Morimoto

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 15 - Episode 2 - Snap Classic

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0:00.0	Snap Studios. First, because she decides it's crazy important to pick the right Chatsky crap for her
0:25.5	host parents he missed a train. We missed a train that we've planned our whole
0:31.2	schedule around and so standing in a Japanese
0:36.3	thunderstorm for an hour and a half waiting for the next train I try to hold my
0:40.9	tongue I try even as this salary man grabs me by the shoulder turns me around
0:47.8	I'm da unda kokooing now he looks be dead in the face and violence.
0:56.1	An explosive unending stream of horror.
0:59.0	I can even take that.
1:02.3	But then I see her slight smile as it to say
1:05.0	I told you
1:07.0	In this I can't take
1:10.0	Oh you foresaw
1:12.0	an intoxicated person with Ralph on my shoes.
1:14.8	You knew this because you're moving to Kyoto without telling me.
1:24.0	And I'm like, I just... I can't believe you're moving to Kyoto without telling me.
1:34.0	And I'm like, I just told you that's the telling part.
1:37.0	I asked you to come with me.
1:39.0	We get to the next stop, still wet, can't find our friends, likely because they left after
1:47.5	waiting for an hour and a half, decide to stop at this place, get something to eat. Why don't we go to that one over there?
1:54.0	I don't care which place we go to.
1:57.0	Walk in, not speaking, sit down across from each other, not looking at each other, fuming.
2:09.9	And then the ground shakes.
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