Echoes and Footprints

By Herman Boyd

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Episodes: 38

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We explore the impact of polyrhythms from Africa on the evolution of the music of the Americas.

Episode Date
Profile: Arnold Shultz - The Blues Before Bluegrass
Sep 28, 2026
"I Feel Love": When the Future Learned the Ancient Groove
Sep 21, 2026
The Voice — Before There Was a Diva
Sep 14, 2026
The After School Beat Route: Finding the Collective Groove, When We Stepped Into the Real World
Sep 07, 2026
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning — Part I The Sacred–Secular Continuum
Sep 05, 2026
The After School Beat Route: Reading Between the Beats, When Words Learned to Groove
Aug 31, 2026
The After School Beat Route: Sesame Street and the Neighborhood Beat
Aug 24, 2026
The After School Beat Route: Schoolhouse Groove - When Learning Learned to Dance
Aug 17, 2026
The After-School Beat Route - Saturday Morning Polyrhythms: When Motion Learned to Groove
Aug 10, 2026
Travel Showcase: Loud, Lit, and Live—My Trio Elétrico Experience
Aug 02, 2026
After School Beat Route: The Rhythm Lesson Plan
Jul 27, 2026
Showcase: When Sports Learned to Groove
Jul 20, 2026
Technology Showcase: Mix Tape as Beat Route
Jul 13, 2026
Showcase: the 7 Rhythm Markers
Jul 06, 2026
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning — Part 2: Church on the Dancefloor
Jun 29, 2026
Showcase: Latin-Country Music as a Musical Crossroads
Jun 15, 2026
Showcase: Trio Elétrico - The Moving Stage That Rewired Carnivale
Jun 08, 2026
Showcase: Disney, Polyrhythms, and the Architecture of Motion
Jun 01, 2026
PROFILE: DeFord Bailey, the harmonica that became a train
May 25, 2026
Profile: Lesley Riddle helped birth country music
May 18, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard - Graduation
May 11, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard: Beat Routes and Rhythm Routes
May 04, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard: Homework - My Hometown
Apr 27, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard: Digital Geography
Apr 20, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard: Math and Science - Acing the Test
Apr 13, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard: Radio Active
Apr 06, 2026
Dashboard Chalkboard: The Cultured Club
Mar 30, 2026
Selling Motion… “E-Motion”
Mar 23, 2026
The Classroom on Wheels: How America Learned the Beat
Mar 16, 2026
Instruments as Technology: From Constraint to Creation
Mar 09, 2026
How Blues, Gospel, Country & Soul Share the Same Roots
Mar 02, 2026
Minneapolis — Where Funk Became the Future
Feb 23, 2026
Detroit: Where the BEAT Learned Precision
Feb 16, 2026
Chicago The Machine Learned the Groove
Feb 09, 2026
Memphis & St. Louis: When the River Learned to Scale
Feb 01, 2026
Where America’s Music Learned to Move and Feel
Jan 25, 2026
The Mississippi River: the FIRST Streaming Platform
Jan 18, 2026
Echoes & Footprints: What are the roots of the music of the United States
Jan 10, 2026