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Pop in the United States.

Rock Historian Ed Ward looks at why "Pop" music has hit the charts around the world but remains buried in the subculture in America. "Pop" music, as it is known internationally, is not to be mistaken with Top 40. Ward says American radio stations in the late 1970s and early 80s didn't pick up the sound and a lot of the "Pop" music went unheard.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, August 8, 1995: Interview with Clifton Taulbert; Commentary on popular music; Interview with Thomas Keating; Review of Francine Prose's novel "Hunters and Gatherers."
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Clifton Taulbert Discusses Growing Up with Segregation.

Writer Clifton Taulbert grew up in the segregated South in the 1950s. His experiences growing up black in America are chronicled in his two memoirs When We Were Colored and the Pulitzer Prize nominated The Last Train North, (Penguin Books). Taulbert lives in Tulsa Oklahoma where he is a businessman. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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Father Thomas Keating Defines Contemplative Prayer.

Father Thomas Keating teaches the centuries old art of Contemplative Prayer This prayer is done without words and even without thoughts. Keating believes this opens the heart and mind to God. Keating teaches at the St Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. The Monastery also supports a network of prayer workshops through Contemplative Outreach Ltd. in Butler, New Jersey. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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New Novel Satirizes New Age Feminists.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Hunters and Gatherers the new comic novel by Francine Prose, a story about a Manhattan community of New Age Goddess worshippers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux .August 1995)

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