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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 28:29
On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 28:25
On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town," the first critical biography of "the world's greatest party band," wh...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the new book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," which explores the many ways that the humble...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters, which intertwines her own life and work with that of electronic music pio...
Bought by Raven Radio and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 18, 2023
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we talked about "Beneath Missouri Skies," a biography of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's early years growing up in Lee's Summit, Miss...
- Added: Oct 28, 2023
- Length: 28:31
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about a couple of recent books that explore the ways that the black metal genre has evo...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 27:19
On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "The Names of Minimalism," a new music history book that approaches the genre from the perspective of rivalries an...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 28:00
On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...
- Added: Jul 29, 2023
- Length: 28:19
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Author and scholar Gretchen E. Minton discusses her book, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Write...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Music fuses with literature this Thursday at the Grand Rapids Area Library when Minnesota Book Award Winners Melanie Hoffert, Margi Preus, and Matt...
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 14:25
Writer Dean Klinkenberg talks about his journeys along the Mississippi River
- Added: Aug 19, 2016
- Length: 08:56
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet - how can one man be so many things? And what did he keep in his basement?
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 16:09
- Purchases: 2
Audiences will be treated to King Lear the way it sounded in 1606 at its first performance at the Court of Saint James. Director and IU associate p...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 23:27
Robert Wiltenbug surveys the great moments of mercy, both granted and withheld, in Shakespeare's many plays.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 15:07
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 3
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:54:56
Today on Art Beat we examine the author. MN author Eric Dregni is here to talk about his new book "Vikings in the Attic: In search of Nordic Americ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 32:34
- Purchases: 3
What does it take for a critically acclaimed mystery writer to make it to the New York Times bestseller list? MN writer William Kent Krueger thinks...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 21:31
Guest from the Grand Rapids Friends of the Public Library program talk with Heidi about events and literacy in Itasca County
- Added: Jun 02, 2010
- Length: 11:52
Local author Dwane Schwartz and his latest called "Calumet," a mystery set in Calumet that involves the Klan.
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 08:42
The groundbreaking discovery of an unknown master painter and perhaps one of the greatest women in art.
- Added: Dec 17, 2008
- Length: 29:31