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On this episode, we talked about producer Ian Brennan's new book "Missing Music," in which he discusses his latest song collecting activities durin...
- Added: Apr 27, 2024
- Length: 28:31
On this episode, we talked about the book "Subcontinental Synthesis," a collection of essays that document a brief period where a Moog Synthesizer ...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 16, 2024
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 27:24
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we discussed the book "Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America," which investigates the rise, fall, and retur...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2024
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2024
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 1
Poetry and music imbued with Earth, wind, and fire, in actuality or metaphorically.
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 59:19
On this episode, we looked at the autobiography of Stuart Braithwaite, founder of the long-running post-rock band Mogwai. We listened to some of th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about ambient and pop music polymath Brian Eno's Diary, which was recently re-published in a special 25th anniversary ed...
- Added: Nov 25, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we discussed the book "Sound Actions," which reduces musical activity down to its most essential components so that we can re-conc...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we discussed a new book that delves into the discography of Aphex Twin, a pioneer in IDM and dril...
- Added: Oct 14, 2023
- Length: 27:47
Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "Overtone Singing," a comprehensive tome that addresses the physics ...
- Added: May 06, 2023
- Length: 28:29
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about a new book in the "Decades" series that documents the band Faith No More and thei...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 27:59
From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...
Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 12, 2020
- Length: 01:01:57
- Purchases: 1
The no-clapping-between-movements rule in a classical concert was created for a bad reason. So we’re gonna kill it -- you and me and Emanuel Ax.
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 23:26
This hour begins with a short history of the area, the “Return of the River Ranger,” a former local radio personality; children reading aloud to do...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 57:30
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Michael Goldberg talks of new beginnings, fresh starts and looking at everyday as day one.
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 59:23
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Excerpts from Rachel Cohen's essay "Lost Cities" and segments of poetry by Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy examine the allure of one's home ...
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 53:20
Poetry and music that explores the spiritual dimensions of being alive.
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 53:46
