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Sonnets and poetic songs set to a variety of music.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:01:23
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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
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On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Can we make the music business safe for everyone?

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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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
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On this episode, we looked at the book "Now and Forever," one of the first book-length investigations into the many ways that loops (repeated audio...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Composers have been using chant melodies to create new music for hundreds of years. This week we explore some modern works all created around 4 an...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:00
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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
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we celebrate the 100th birthday of composer Warren Benson. We explore his major works, including "The Leaves are ...

Bought by WUAL, WBAA, Delmarva Public Media, KCCU Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Hymnus peregrinorum “Dum pater familias” fragment from Codex Calixtinus
From as far back as the ninth century, perhaps earlier, pilgrims have followed El Camino de Santiago to the shrine of St. James in Compostela. On t...

Bought by KUER, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE, KMUN, WCQS and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 35
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "The Needle and the Lens," which explores pop songs used in film. So...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Krautrock," a recent addition to the 33 1/3 "Genre" series that explores the history and influence of Ge...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We will not wait to be drafted into jazz radio service, we shall volunteer, and do it gladly. When Quincy Jones recorded for A & M records, the sou...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KHNS, WOUB, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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On this episode, we talked about John Luther Adams and his biography, "Silences So Deep," which focuses on his time living in Alaska between 1978 a...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #73 - Hour 2
This week's program explores the infinity of space . . . and the Stars! Inspired by the recording "Refections" by Christoffer Franzen. Check out t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KUCO


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #73 - Hour 1
This week's program explores the infinity of space . . . and the Stars! Inspired by the recording "Refections" by Christoffer Franzen. Check out t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KUCO


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode, we talked about the new Harvey Sachs book "Schoenberg: Why He Matters," which looks at the life and music of a composer who is one...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #72 - Hour 2
This week's program reflects on the red planet Mars. Inspired by the recording "Cydonia" by Ken Martin. Findout more about that recording and this ...

Bought by KUCO and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #72 - Hour 1
This week's program reflects on the red planet Mars. Inspired by the recording "Cydonia" by Ken Martin. Findout more about that recording and this ...

Bought by KUCO and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Radio Art Zone," which is both a survey of what's happening in radio art, and part of a 100-artist radio...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Tonight’s Granite City Radio Theater was nearly derailed by numerous winter illnesses, but since we aren’t really “on the rails” anyhow, it all wo...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:03:23