• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

WAMC Podcasts

All of WAMC's Podcasts

  • Home
  • National Productions
    • 51 Percent
    • The Academic Minute
    • The Best Of Our Knowledge
    • The Book Show
    • The Capitol Connection
    • Earth Wise
    • The Legislative Gazette
    • The Media Project
  • Podcasts
    • A New York Minute In History
    • Any Questions? | WAMC’s Trivia Show
    • Everything Explained
    • Food Friday : Leftovers
    • Listen With The Lights On
    • Postcards From The Road
    • RetConned
    • The Creative Process
    • The Roundtable
    • Vox Pop
    • WAMC’s In Conversation With…
    • WAMC News Podcast
  • Contact
  • Distribution
  • wamc.org

June 11, 2018

#1507: A Chat With Ani DiFranco And Art Therapy For Veterans

On this week’s 51%, we have a look at music and the arts – first with musician Ani DiFranco. Then we hear about an exhibit on performance art and meet art and music therapists who are helping veterans.
https://wamcpodcasts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/51__show_1507.mp3

Feminist Ani DiFranco is a musician and an activist, known for her female empowerment themes. She is on her Rise Up tour. 51%’s Josh Landes caught up with DiFranco to get her take on what has changed in her world of music and feminism.

Photo provided courtesy of Ani DiFranco
Photo provided courtesy of Ani DiFranco

In the 1990s, queer performance artists like Karen Finley created radical, experimental and often politically risky work. These artists rebelled against Reagan-Bush politics, the AIDS crisis, Senator Jesse Helms’s attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts, and the era’s culture wars. An exhibit curated by Gwyneth Shanks, “A Different Kind of Intimacy: Queer and Radical Performance at the Walker, 1990-1995,” chronicles the era. That’s that Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. KFAI’s Dixie Treichel produced this story.

The VA is expanding its use of art therapy for veterans with traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic stress. It has begun offering tele-health programs in dance, visual art and music. The programs link therapists with veterans in their homes. Bobbie O’Brien sat in on a therapy session in Gainesville, Florida.

This story was produced by the American Homefront Project, a public media collaboration that reports on American military life and veterans. Funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

And that’s our show for this week. Thanks to Patrick Garrett for production assistance. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock. Our theme music is Glow in the Dark by Kevin Bartlett. This show is a national production of Northeast Public Radio. If you’d like to hear this show again, sign up for our podcast, or visit the 51% archives on our web site at wamc.org. And follow us on Twitter @51PercentRadio

Primary Sidebar

Search

Get News Updates From WAMC

Featured Podcast from WAMC

Budget

#2115: NYS Budget Agreement Reached, Nearly One Week Late | The Legislative Gazette

https://wamcpodcasts.org/podcast-player/9461/2115-nys-budget-agreement-reached-nearly-one-week-late.mp3

Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:27:30

This week on The Gazette, Nearly a week after it was due, Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State’s legislative leaders have announced the final agreement on a $212 billion budget deal. Our political observer Dr. Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the budget. U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand hosted a roundtable discussion with community leaders […]

Copyright © 2021 · WAMC Northeast Public Radio

  • Home
  • Contact
  • Distribution
  • Podcast Team
  • Privacy Policy