Radio Sweethearts

 

Currently on NPR.org, there’s a story about how harps symbolize Paraguay’s national identity. Paraguay. Harps. I had to check my globe when I saw the headline: “Harps Symbolize Paraguay’s National Identity.”

Harps symbolize Paraguay’s national identity.

Really? Are we sure we’re not thinking Celtic areas? Ireland? Maybe even the coast of Brittany?

According to this story, it’s really Paraguay. There’s even an indigenous form of Polka.

Harp-polka symbolizes Paraguay’s national identity.

There’s something deliciously, deliriously weird about the story’s description of South American harp-based polka, and I want to hear it.

Despite this story being on National Public Radio’s Music site, there is no audio available for this story. At all.

When did NPR start standing for “National Public We’ll Talk About Music So Weird You Have to Hear It But We Aren’t Going to Play it For You?”

(The picture is from the story, by the way.)