KGLP Podcasts

Gallup, NM area Indigenous School Initiative

KGLP's Station Manager, Rachel Kaub, speaks with Lane Towery of the Indigenous School Initiative, a new charter school project now in the early planning stages.

KGLP visits Gallup's Uplft Community School in March 2015

KGLP speaks with faculty, administration, and students of Uplift Community School, a "hands-on" charter school program in Gallup, New Mexico.

Radio MAQAM Arabic & Middle-Eastern music show now airs on KGLP 9-11pm Sundays MDT

"9-11pm Sundays (Mountain Daylight Time), KGLP now airs Radio MAQAM, hosted by Bashar Barazi. This is
an Arabic music program featuring a broad selection of styles and origins,
with most shows featuring a theme or focus, ranging from the music and culture
of specific countries or regions, or a particular genre, such as Arabic jazz,
for example. The program's Website is: http://www.radiomaqam.com/ - also,
the first episode which aired on KGLP is now available at
http://kglp.podbean.com/

The following definition for Maqam is from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_maqam

The Arabic word, maqam, (مقام / ALA-LC: maqām; pl. maqāmāt) is the
system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music, which is mainly
melodic. The word maqam in Arabic means place, location or position. The
Arabic maqam is a melody type. It is a technique of improvisation that defines
the pitches, patterns, and development of a piece of music and which is unique
to Arabian art music. There are seventy two heptatonic tone rows or scales of
maqamat. These are constructed from major, neutral, and minor seconds. Each
maqam is built on a scale, and carries a tradition that defines its habitual
phrases, important notes, melodic development and modulation. Both
compositions and improvisations in traditional Arabic music are based on the
maqam system. Maqamat can be realized with either vocal or instrumental music,
and do not include a rhythmic component.

The Persian dastgāh system has been a major influence in the maqam system in
the Arabic music, both of which are deeply rooted in the Sassanid Persia's
melodies which entered into the Islamic world following the Arab conquest of
Iran in the 7th century.

An essential factor in performance is that each maqam describes the
tonal-spatial factor or set of musical notes and the relationships between
them, including traditional patterns and development of melody, while the
rhythmic-temporal component is subjected to no definite organization. A maqam
does not have an established, regularly recurring bar scheme nor an unchanging
meter. A certain rhythm does sometimes identify the style of a performer, but
this is dependent upon his performance technique and is never characteristic
of the maqam as such. The compositional or rather precompositional aspect of
the maqam is the tonal-spatial organization including the number of tone
levels and the improvisational aspect is the construction of the
rhythmic-temporal scheme."

Chaco Culture National Historic Park area oil industry development and fracking discussions 6/29/15

On June 29th, 2015, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) brought Deputy Interior Secretary Mike Connor to the Chaco Culture National Historic Park and World Heritage Site for discussion with officials from the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and National Parks Service, as well as community groups and others, regarding oil and gas development plans for the area around Chaco Canyon.  Unconventional technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling have raised concerns beyond the usual risks that energy companies are known for on tribal lands.  KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub, production assistant Korby Benallie, and volunteer producer Ivah Benally gathered sound and voices during a rigorous hike by Senator Udall's party up to Pueblo Alto, the highest ruin in the Chaco Culture NHP.

Gallup Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites Opens July 1, 2015, with loan from USDA Rural Development Pgm

On July 1st, 2015, Marriott opened a new hotel in Gallup, NM, the Fairfield Inn & Suites, financed in part with 5 million dollars loaned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program's New Mexico office, headed by Terry Brunner, who speaks with KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub about that event, as well as home loans and more.  Voices from the grand opening of the hotel are also featured.