Category Archives: Music

Disabled Musicians – in honor of César Chávez Day

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Adrienne

Friday, March 21, 2:30 pm PST on KPFA.org In celebration of César Chávez Day on March 31, we present a program of disabled Latino musicians and musicians from the Americas. Is that really a blind Puerto Rican blues artist singing … Continue reading →

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Honoring International Disabled Women Musicians

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Adrienne

Listen 29 min In honor of the 2014 celebration of International Women’s Day we play incredible music produced by disabled musicians around the world. Donna Williams is autistic and darn proud of it.  Artistic ability exudes from her pores.   … Continue reading →

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Music, Disability & Society, Part 2

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Adrienne

Friday, Oct 18, 2:30 pm PST KPFA Disability music scholar Alex Lubet returns for more conversation about “adaptive music.” Eddie Ytuarte hosts as Lubet discusses contemporary musicians like Bruce Langhorne, Rick Allen, Bill Clements and the Vancouver Adaptive Music Studio. … Continue reading →

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Music, Disability and Society

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Adrienne

Listen 28 min. Music scholar Alex Lubet will be our guest.  Lubet is the author of Music, Disability, and Society (Temple University, 2011). Topics include his concept of social confluence, and his analysis of both jazz musicians with disabilities and … Continue reading →

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Jazz Musicians with Disabilities

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Adrienne

Friday, June 7, 2013, 2:30 pm PST, KPFA Eddie Ytuarte and Josh Elwood present well known musicians who had significant disabilities. Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Chick Webb and Rosemary Clooney……we play them not because they are “supercrips” or are “inspirational’ … Continue reading →

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Moving Over the Edge: Artists with Disabilities Take the Leap

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Adrienne

  Listen 59 minutes It began in living rooms and grew to the international stage.  The Disability Arts Movement came out of the disability movement of the 70s and 80s with brilliance and fire. We revisit the origins, remember important … Continue reading →

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The Musicians of Liyana

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Adrienne

Energy Maburutse first marimba, back-up vocalist Energy Maburutse was first marimba player and back-up vocalist and the band’s resident jokester. He has osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bone syndrome. He now studies at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Marvelous Mbulo back-up … Continue reading →

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“Music By Prudence” & Moments in Disability History

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Adrienne

Listen: May 4, 2-3 pm PST KPFA And the Oscar for Best Documentary Short goes to…..  “Music by Prudence!”    We begin this program with the story of an incredible singer from a school for disabled people in Zimbabwe and … Continue reading →

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More, Musicians with Disabilities

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Adrienne

We found so many interesting entertainers on Kay Olson’s blog The Gimp Parade that we couldn’t fit them all into the radio program.  Here’s a few more highlights.  Sia, an Australian pop singer perhaps best known for her song “Breathe … Continue reading →

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Disabled Musicians Ring in the New Year!

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Today we ring in the new year with a program featuring some of the many musicians who live with disabilities.  More musicians and music videos. Staff Benda Bilili hales from Kinshasa, Congo.            … Continue reading →

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