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November 2020

Singing in the Streets
The opening sounds of a new presidency; a new Spotify mix; online soundwalks
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Craig Eley

October 2020

The Sound of Science: An Interview about the Folkways Science Series
Moe Asch wanted to record everything. So when he started Folkways Records in 1949, he didn’t act like a major label record executive—he acted like an…
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Craig Eley
Listening to Democracy
Brief interviews with poll workers and some new podcast and music recommendations
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Craig Eley

September 2020

Seventy Years of Listening Underwater
The audio above is a “remix” of a 1979 version of Roger Payne’s Songs of the Humpback Whale that was pressed onto a “Flexi disc” and accompanied an…
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Craig Eley
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Looting is Not the Issue
A Hurricane Katrina podcast and the persistent issues of racism in America
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Craig Eley

August 2020

Keeping a Listening Journal
In July, I took an online class on “Deconstructing the Audio Documentary,” taught by Dennis Funk. It was, in a word, wonderful, and it scratched three…
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Craig Eley
Introducing Human Powered
Introducing Human Powered Today I’m excited to announce the launch of Human Powered, a six-episode podcast miniseries that introduces you to people…
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Craig Eley
Sounds Good: August 7, 2020
Music to listen to and possibly purchase
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Craig Eley

July 2020

Work in Progress: Viral Music
Earlier in the quarantine, I had a chance to talk to three really interesting music scholars on the relationship between music and viruses, ranging from…
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Craig Eley
Outside the Center of Sound
Thoughts on World Listening Day 2020
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Craig Eley
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New work: "Jazz Migrations" on To the Best of Our Knowledge
The story of jazz is a story of migrations: the transatlantic slave trade, the Great Migration, the exile of South African musicians during Apartheid…
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Craig Eley
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