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EDM in America
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Underground is Massive," which charts the foundation and development of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Beyond The Barrier #081 - New Journeys - Hour 2
From: Chris Kuborn
Series: Beyond The Barrier
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #81 - Hour 2
This week we listen to the latest Ambient releases. Our feature recording is "Chromatic Lightning Cage" by Dave Bissell on the DiN Label. We also ...

Bought by KUCO and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond The Barrier #081 - New Journeys - Hour 1
From: Chris Kuborn
Series: Beyond The Barrier
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #81 - Hour 1
This week we listen to the latest Ambient releases. Our feature recording is "Chromatic Lightning Cage" by Dave Bissell on the DiN Label. We also ...

Bought by KUCO and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Subcontinental Synthesis
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Erin’s Isle
From: Wind & Rhythm
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On this St. Patrick’s Day episode of Wind & Rhythm, we explore music by Irish composers. We hear “The Willow Tree” by Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, "A W...

Bought by WUAL, WNMU-FM, Raven Radio, KECG, KUCO and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 15
Beyond The Barrier #080 - Landscapes - Hour 2
From: Chris Kuborn
Series: Beyond The Barrier
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #80 - Hour 2
This week's program is inspired by the latest recording "Santa Clara" from Cartas de Japón. We hear two tracks from this new recording as well as ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KUCO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
UNITED NATIONS GOAL #5 GENDER EQUALITY
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Pete Seeger's Early Years: Music, Politics, and the Banjo
From: Adam Morse
Series: There Is A Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
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This episode delves into Pete Seeger's early years growing up in upstate New York and at boarding school; his political worldview as channeled thro...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 48:39
Sonnets & Songs
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Sonnets and poetic songs set to a variety of music.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:01:23
David Bowie
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
The Art of Noise: Influence of Futurism on Music
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Watching TV on the Radio
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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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
Season 1, Episode 16 - 'Safe Spaces' feat Jeanette Berry
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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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
Squeeze This! A Cutural History of the Accordion in America
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Well of Souls: The Hidden History of the Banjo
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Spaceships Over Glasgow
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Toward a Theory and History of the Loop
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Chant Melodies
From: Brent Johnson
Series: King of Instruments
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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
The B-52s
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Warren Benson’s 100th Birthday
From: Wind & Rhythm
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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
The Spanish Hour 2403: Music for a Pilgrimage
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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
The Needle and the Lens
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Krautrock
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1927 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/04/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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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