Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How musician Karen Carpenter defined American culture to a young Filipino woman
The music duo The Carpenters are icons in the Philippines. Writer Karen Tongson was even named after Karen Carpenter. Now she's written a new book called "Why Karen Carpenter Matters."
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe music duo The Carpenters are icons in the Philippines. Writer Karen Tongson was even named after Karen Carpenter. Now she's written a new book called "Why Karen Carpenter Matters."
Karen Tongson will be speaking at the Last Bookstore in LA on Aug 27, 2019.
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Post-Thanksgiving special: musical icons- 0:00Rock musician David Crosby on music, love, and drugs
- 18:48Linda Ronstadt, from arena rock to operetta and Mexican folk
- 33:30How musician Karen Carpenter defined American culture to a young Filipino womanYou’re reading this
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Karen Tongson
Author of “Normporn: Queer Viewers And The TV That Soothes Us,” professor of gender and sexuality, English, and American studies at USC
The full episode
3 of 3Post-Thanksgiving special: musical icons- 0:00Rock musician David Crosby on music, love, and drugs
- 18:48Linda Ronstadt, from arena rock to operetta and Mexican folk
- 33:30How musician Karen Carpenter defined American culture to a young Filipino womanYou’re reading this