Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And what he's doing with that song is he's evoking the ancestors and their persistent faith in the power of joy.
But it's also a song to rally us in our own times of trouble.
I think that when things are really dark, joy isn't easy.
We as Americans, we center joy.
It's in our founding promise, the pursuit of happiness.
That's it for this week's America in Pursuit.
Join us next week when we hear stories of protests in America with NPR's ongoing AP250 series.
That's next week.
And stick around after the credits for something a little special.
A short story about how one tiny accident created a new big sound.
This episode was produced by Kiana Moghadam, with help from Amy Padula, and edited by Liana Simstrom, with support from the ThruLine production team.
Music by Ramtin Adablui and his band, Drop Electric.
Special thanks to Julia Redpath, Irene Noguchi, Yolanda Sangwani, Casey Miner, and Lindsay McKenna.
I'm Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Before we go, here's NPR's Jennifer Ludden with one final story about an important moment in American music history.
In a glass case at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History sits Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet.
Notable for so many reasons, not least of which is its angled bell, which was kind of the trademark.
We'll get back to why the bell points up.
Music curator Crystal Klingenberg says the man and his instrument were an American original.
And that's one of many examples of where American entertainment has just burst forth with something new and special and reached the whole world.
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