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Jack Wright
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Neue Detsche Welle
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Transfigured New York
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1940 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/04/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Music has its own eternal intuition, ours among the decades continues. Happening with horn solos is Snowboy and “his” tribute to Puente as first tr...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KECG, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
Season 1, Episode 26 - 'Harmony Project' feat Maya Barrera
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Providing free music education to children who have had music education cut from their public schooling.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
028: ‘I needed ASL to better understand myself’: the power of sign language, 3/22/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Andrew Keen- "Does The Internet Really Kill Culture"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Those of us who use the internet are subject to the words and wisdom, or lack thereof, provided by the people and or machines that upload ideas and...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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
Kathak's Return Journey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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
Radio Art Zone
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1923 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/07/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Sometimes unpredictable by design, other times we come more out of the melodic/classic sense. We are proud of NYC tenor saxophonist Lucas Pino who ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Folk Art
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Join The Children's Hour Kids Crew in a field trip to the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, the largest in the world! Learn what makes someth...

Bought by KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
20231204: Folk Art, 12/4/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Join The Children's Hour Kids Crew in a field trip to the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, the largest in the world! Learn what makes someth...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Re-Sisters
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1920 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/16/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Free to achieve again, hour one: John Coltrane Quartet of 1963, guitarist Denin Slage-Koch (“It Comes In Waves” release), singers Monica Mancini, L...

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 11
Paul Goldstein – "The Artist’s Right of Ownership"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pat Metheny
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1914 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/05/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Before breakfast but still night-blooming, John Fedchock’s New York Big Band fires one up, then from San Francisco, Cal Tjader’s group lays it in t...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
FMH 1912
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We tend to get cluster-phobic when negotiating our categories, in brand-new big band we feature the Royal New Zealand Air Force Jazz Orchestra and ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:03
  • Purchases: 9
New trends in black metal
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1907 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/24/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Tell the truth, shame the devil: New jazz releases, and artists today, still deliver. We feature a batch from the Origin label, as well as their OA...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
Bob Moog
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
The Names of Minimalism
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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

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