Soul Force Podcast

Celebrating the creative, redemptive, and transforming power of radical love, the Soul Force Podcast explores the relationship between art and nonviolence. Hosted by Paul Livingstone and friends of the Soul Force Project, each episode discusses historical and contemporary connections between creativity and change-making. We have a range of guests from scholars, clergy, and community activists to musicians, artists, and writers who are stirring positive change-making in the world.

Soul Force Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Soul Force Project, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Soul Force Project hosts Soul Force Podcast, a history show with 12 episodes published.

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  From Child Soldier to Healer | Arn Chorn-Pond

  Nov 17, 202552 minS0

  <p>Arn Chorn-Pond survived the Cambodian genocide by playing music for the Khmer Rouge, performing propaganda songs while people were killed around him. At just 12 years old, he watched over a million children die, including his own siblings, as the Khmer Rouge slaughtered a quarter of Cambodia's population and 90% of its artists between 1975-1979. After escaping through landmine-filled jungles and reaching a refugee camp, he was adopted and brought to rural New Hampshire, where he faced racism and isolation that nearly broke him.<br/><br/>Arn shares how music saved his life twice—first physically, then spiritually—and how learning to c...

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  Bobby Bradford, 'Jazz and the new Black man' (part two)

  Nov 11, 202446 minS5

  <p>This is part two of this fascinating interview with master improvisor, composer, educator and legendary cornetist Bobby Bradford, Now 90 years old, Bobby unpacks more stories and first hand experiences on the cutting edge jazz history from the perspectives of the musicians themselves. <br/><br/>Bobby discusses the history of the evolving consciousness of the black man as a free artist and the evolution of the Black American voice of freedom through the art of Jazz music. We go deeper into the innovative collaborative music that Bobby made with Ornette Coleman and master clarinetist and composer John Carter in Los A...

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  Bobby Bradford, 'Jazz and the new Black man' (part one)

  Oct 17, 202458 minS5

  <p>Master improvisor, composer, educator and legendary cornetist Bobby Bradford now 90 years old unpacks his stories and first hand experiences on the arc of jazz history from the perspectives of the musicians themselves. <br/><br/>In part one, Bobby discusses his early days, and the evolving artistic identity of the new black man and early impact of Ornette Coleman and John Carter also from Texas who he later worked with in Los Angeles. Bradford expands on the new directions of the music as linked to the historical expansion of jazz music from it's beginnings in New Orleans. He provides a c...

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  Rev James Lawson, a nonviolent revolutionary - Holman Interviews (part two)

  Sep 20, 202355 minS4

  <p>Enjoy these enlightening interviews with a living legend of American history and architect of the nonviolent movement in America.  Reverend James Lawson at age 93 sharp as a tack, breaks down his personal experience,  American history and contemporary outlook on issues ranging from plantation capitalism, the persistence of poverty and the American obsession with guns.  Lawson shows how love in its most courageous expression, creates necessary conflict when addressing injustice.<br/><br/>Part Two is a continuation of a fascinating conversation unpacking Lawson's lived history of change making with a perspective that brings us up to 10 years of Black Lives Mat...

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  Diné teachings from Arnold Clifford (part two)

  May 5, 202359 minS4

  <p><b>So happy to release part two of this extraordinary talk by Arnold Clifford, Diné elder from Shiprock, the Four Corners region of New Mexico. A Navajo renaissance man, Arnold's knowledge spans botany, geology, myth, spirituality.  As a teacher, he is a true culture bearer of the Navajo people and carries a wealth of knowledge within the worldview of his tradition and their connection to all living things.  <br/><br/>In this episode Arnold unpacks the Beauty Way and the legend of the Changing Woman and so much more. Elder Arnold breaks down how the Diné/Navajo worldview is conn...

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