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Living Space
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...

  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
Byzantine Chant
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
The oud
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book by Rachel Beckles Willson, called "The Oud: An Illustrated History." This book might be the first in-...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2023
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Blood in the Tracks" by Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 13:41
Appalachian Vibes: Colby Helms, A. Jordan, Disco Risque
From: Amanda Bocchi
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This week we discover what really happened to the Bondurant boys with Franklin Co country, singer-songwriter and amateur historian, Colby Helms of ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
The Grapes of Wrath
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A short book review

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
Poet and Musician Ted Olson Discusses Appalachia
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, discusses how his writing has been impacted by the region's histo...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
'Little Women' podcast featurIng Alexandre Desplat
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
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Welcome to the 'Little Women' podcast featurIng Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer; Alexandre Desplat.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 17:05
Get Rhythm (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KRDP and more


  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 8
Get Rhythm (half)
From: With Good Reason
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-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...

Bought by KRZA and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: Andrea Swensson - Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Andrea Swensson, the author of the book "Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound," pub...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 12:51
Tom Sancton: Family Man
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Tom Sancton
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 52:00
Episode Five: "Our Cheated Hearts"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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Poetry and the pain of experience are the subjects of this episode titled "Our Cheated Hearts." Author Winston Groom incorporated his experiences i...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
Get Rhythm (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: :30
Get Rhythm (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WTJU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Get Rhythm (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, WVAS, WCQS, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Bob Dylan: Listen To The Words
From: Paul Ingles
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Another hour of Dylan's most literate work, hosted by Paul Ingles, to further mark his winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Bought by KAAD-LP, KMSU, KMUW, WRGY, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Imagining Yoko Ono (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Yoko Ono was an accomplished and innovative artist long before she met John Lennon. -A novel by Fred D’Aguiar tells the story of a mother and daug...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
The Punk Invasion - Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives
From: Creative PR
Series: Please Kill Me : Voices from the Archives
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The music of the Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, and The New York Dolls and others the others were meeting fierce resistance in the US. W...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KDUR, Prairie Public, KMXT, KALH and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 56:32
  • Purchases: 35
The Pioneers of Punk - Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives
From: Creative PR
Series: Please Kill Me : Voices from the Archives
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How the Warhol 60s morphed into the Punk 70s and marginalized inhabitants of a near-bankrupt New York City changed 20th century culture and influen...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KDUR, Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:17
  • Purchases: 37
Author Rick Shefchik on 1960s rock 'n' roll in Minnesota
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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"Everybody's Heard About the Bird" is a new behind-the-scenes account of how a group of Minnesota bands made it big on the national music scene in ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 19:57
MN Reads: Sure, everybody's heard about the bird, but have you heard about the others?
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads visits with journalist, columnist, and author Rick Shefchik about his newest book, "Everybody's Heard About the Bird: The True Story of 19...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:00
Poet and Novelist Philip Lee Williams
From: New Letters on the Air
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Philip Lee Williams talks about how science, literature, music and visual art have helped shape his writing life. In this first half of a two part ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Yeats for a Day: The Dublin Musical Saunter
From: Celia Donoghue
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Yeats for a Day: The Dublin Musical Saunter 2015 (an all-day event in the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival on June 15 2015) brought together a...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:28
Wounded Galaxies Festival Celebrates Experimental Media
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The Wounded Galaxies Festival begins in Bloomington on Thursday. The four-day festival includes film screenings, music performances and other event...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 08:24