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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
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill's new autobiography "Easily S...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 28:30
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 "Beautiful Dreamer," the first biography of guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2023
- Length: 28:30
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
On this episode, we discussed the new book "Dance-Punk," part of a new series of "Genre" books from 33 1/3. We discussed the history of dance-punk ...
- Added: May 20, 2023
- Length: 28:29
I lost time to a steady rhythmic swing and clicking of cars traveling over rails. Passing scenery like a thief with no passion for roots, just a tr...
- Added: Jul 23, 2022
- Length: 07:49
Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...
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- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 33:59
- Purchases: 1
Fifteen years ago this month, on April 6, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spoke to a crowded lecture hall on the campus of the University of...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 21:01
The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 54:04
- Added: Sep 12, 2020
- Length: 01:01:57
- Purchases: 1
The madrigal offered composers a means to break the strict rules of counterpoint and harmony in order to serve a dramatic end; an important concept...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 03:00
This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 04:34
Washington Post reporter and new Minnesota transplant, Christopher Ingram has written a book about his family's transition from the east coast to r...
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- Added: Feb 08, 2020
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa tells us about these prestigious awards.
- Added: Feb 08, 2020
- Length: 13:37
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 04:34
Poet Linda Back McKay shares her poem "Howl" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:10
Poet Steve Juenemann shares his poem "Big White Feather" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 01:35
Poet Emilio Degrazia shares his poem "Why He Didn't Pray" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:20
Stay Human takes a closer look at being undecided, not here and not there but in-between.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 59:32
On this segment of Wordish Jennifer Derrick shares her essay "Dressing Room".
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 02:01
Poet Serenity Schoonover shares her poem "Simple, Sacred".
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 02:50
