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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
One particularly boisterous and sonorous spring, podcaster and long-distance hiker Alison Young chose to walk the entirety of the Superior Hiking T...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
1. Embrace Failure: Don’t fear failure; instead, see it as a stepping stone towards growth. Understand that setbacks aren’t roadblocks but opportun...
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 03:18
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
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
With tablets, Legos, and coding, these fourteen teams from library branches across Brooklyn met at Central Library to compete in the final champion...
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 09:23
All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:06
In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
Tune in to learn more about the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, why it was founded, its significance beyond the Jewish community, and the...
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 40:28
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 50:30
- Purchases: 1
Hear why a small Midwest American town pays tribute to Sir Winston Churchill and where you can walk in the footsteps of his life.
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 31:43
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
An interview with Tam Le, owner of a Vietnamese restaurant in Boston, about the newest cultural district in the Massachusetts, "Boston Little Saigon."
- Added: Apr 21, 2022
- Length: 06:13
In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susan...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 16, 2021
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 1
Burnout from work is something a lot of us are thinking about right now. It's been on the minds of librarians, too. We talk to a group of library w...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 25:09
- Purchases: 1
