{"id":5855,"date":"2015-08-25T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2015-08-25T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:02:45","slug":"tonight-live-on-the-radio-american-blues-music-and-the-life-of-samuel-charters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/08\/25\/tonight-live-on-the-radio-american-blues-music-and-the-life-of-samuel-charters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight Live on the Radio! American Blues Music and the Life of Samuel Charters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/08\/whusheader.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5856\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/08\/whusheader.png\" alt=\"whusheader\" width=\"290\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>At 5:00pm (EST) today, <a href=\"http:\/\/fm.whus.org\/\">tune in to WHUS Radio 91.7 FM<\/a> to hear music produced and\u00a0recorded by poet, novelist, and renowned scholar of the blues, jazz, and musical culture of the African diaspora Samuel Charters. \u00a0Featuring our own Kristin Eshelman, Archivist for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/findaids\/charters\/MSS20000105.html\">The\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/findaids\/charters\/MSS20000105.html\">Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Connecticut in Archives and Special Collections, the much-anticipated radio program is a tribute to the friendship, life and legacy of Samuel Charters. \u00a0Samuel Charters died in March of this year at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<p>Walking A Blues Road is a radio program engineered by Ken Best at WHUS, UConn&#8217;s Sound Alternative. \u00a0The\u00a0playlist can be <a href=\"http:\/\/spinitron.com\/radio\/playlist.php?station=whus&amp;showid=1456\">tracked here for this special program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:00pm (EST) today, tune in to WHUS Radio 91.7 FM to hear music produced and\u00a0recorded by poet, novelist, and renowned scholar of the blues, jazz, and musical culture of the African diaspora Samuel Charters. \u00a0Featuring our own Kristin Eshelman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/08\/25\/tonight-live-on-the-radio-american-blues-music-and-the-life-of-samuel-charters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,253,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1wr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}