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Andrew Huang: Make Your Own Rules
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about YouTube music influencer Andrew Huang's foray into the music book world, "Make Your Own Rules,' a book packed with...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2024
  • Length: 27:27
2349: In Awe of Wonder, 12/5/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is there a purpose to our sense of wonder, or is it gloriously useless?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Brian Eno's Diary
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
2023-10-08 Can Architecture Be Political?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can a building express a political viewpoint?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2341: Can Architecture Be Political?, 10/10/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How can a building express a political viewpoint?

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Should Artists Be Allowed to Borrow From Cultures Besides Their Own?
From: Rob Christiansen
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Modern art, runway fashion, and music today are in the middle of a cultural reckoning, where artists must find a balance between cultural appropria...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
2023-07-16 The Arts for All?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

Bought by KMUN, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2329: The Arts for All?, 7/18/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2322: Can Art Save Us?, 5/30/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can art help us fall in love with a wounded world?

  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Navajo Poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Native American Heritage Month with Sherwin Bitsui, who reads from FLOOD SONG, his collection of poetry that won the American Book Awar...

Bought by KMUN, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Art, Books, and 2020.
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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From one artist to another, this week we're talking to Jordan Buschur, an artist, educator, and curator, with her work being shown in numerous loca...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:19
2020-07-12 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KKWE Niijii Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? We visit artist Mary Miss's organization, The Cit...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Robin Barnes: Songbird of New Orleans
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Robin Barnes
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
The Insult
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:23
The Wrong Box
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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There’s a special place in my heart for silly comedies. I realize I don’t review these kinds of movies on the show very often, and that’s partly be...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:46
RDD: The Price of Fame and the Comfort of Home
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, local performer Candice Coleman looks back to her American Idol days remembering how the experience gave her ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
Voices from IMPArt (Injured Military Personnel + Art)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The Art League's program changes lives through art.

Bought by KZUM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Arts Review ~ September 12, 2015
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Arts Review
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Steve Downing reviews "What's Left: Lives Touched By Suicide," a multi-media exhibit at the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, MN. Produced and ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Liner Notes: Charlie Rouse
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and much sought-after sideman. He is known primarily for his collaboration with Thelonious...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Transcendentalists Are Coming!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WRPI, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 3
El Sistema: Music Lessons to Rebuild the World
From: Open Source
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El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 2
Interview with CD Wright. Sunday, January 22, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: CD Wright
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections. Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
A Conversation with Sarah Cash
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Sarah Cash discusses the making of a great collection of American art.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 30:33
  • Purchases: 1