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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 28:29
On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 28:25
The Upper Midwest Flute Association offers places for flutists to perform, to learn, to compete and to borrow music and instruments.
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 06:00
On this episode, we talked about the book "Transfigured New York," which features interviews with NYC experimental musicians of the 1980s, first fe...
- Added: Apr 13, 2024
- Length: 27:36
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 17:42
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
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
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 35:39
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
On this episode, we talked about the new book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," which explores the many ways that the humble...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters, which intertwines her own life and work with that of electronic music pio...
Bought by Raven Radio and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 18, 2023
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we talked about "Beneath Missouri Skies," a biography of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's early years growing up in Lee's Summit, Miss...
- Added: Oct 28, 2023
- Length: 28:31
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about a couple of recent books that explore the ways that the black metal genre has evo...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 27:19
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...
- Added: Sep 13, 2023
- Length: 05:24
On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "The Names of Minimalism," a new music history book that approaches the genre from the perspective of rivalries an...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 28:00
On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...
- Added: Jul 29, 2023
- Length: 28:19
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...
- Added: Jul 15, 2023
- Length: 28:31
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Our conversation with Shiraz Bayjoo reveals one artist’s approach to Thinking Historically in the Present, the theme of the 2023 Sharjah Biennial. ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 16:02
- Purchases: 1
Artist Paul Chan took a break from making in art in 2009. This "breather" helped him reimagine his art, and it is the focus of his new exhibit titl...
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 06:56
As described by the band, The Round Window is wide-screen rock. And for lyricist Rich Lock, different listeners getting different messages from the...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 11, 2022
- Length: 57:50
- Purchases: 1
With six independent curators, we explore a growing trend in the field of contemporary art. We discover that the covid epidemic and a global econom...
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 17:52
This segment of our Puerto Rico Rising series revolves around creative resistance to foreign fantasies of ‘paradise.’ The conversation exposes a fe...
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 18:12
Avant interviews Betsy Peters, director of programs at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum. She shares her perspective on designing experiences for the...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 18:36