The History Book Club discussion

This is an area where we can discuss "interesting podcasts, podcasting itself and how podcasting got its start".

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Bentley

Has 'podcasts' got anything to do with the 'The Day of the Triffids'? Didn't they come from pods?

Aussie Rick..I have no idea what you are talking about.

This is all that I found on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

Answers.com said the following:

Former MTV VJ Adam Curry is widely recognized as the inventor of podcasting and often referred to as "The Podfather."

Hi Bentley, I was trying some bad Australian humour, based on the famous sci-fi movie; "Day of the Triffids".

Day of the Triffids

I won't do it again :)

No problem...you can see that I had no idea what the dickens you meant (lol)

'Aussie Rick' wrote: " I was trying some bad Australian humour, based on the famous sci-fi movie; "Day of the Triffids".)"

'Aussie Rick' Maybe Bentley would have caught your drift if you'd mentioned "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". THAT's the quintessential pod people movie!

Good one Stanley's Mom :)

Here is a link to the American Historical Association's (AHA) article on history podcasts: http://blog.historians.org/resources/...

Thank you very much for your add Jason - an excellent one.

National Public Radio puts out an excellent podcast on the global economy called Planet Money. You can listen or download from this website: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/. You can also subscribe via iTunes. The hosts manage to make derivatives, the whys and wherefores of the Greek bailout, and other timely financial issues comprehensible to the layman. The website, itself, has interesting articles and links.

That sounds terrific Bea; you may want to add this to the Global Finance thread in Current Events too.

Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" is probably my favorite podcast. He covers a variety of periods but seems to do best when discussing the ancient world. You can find them at: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh or on ITunes.

Thanks Mike - I have listened to Carlin on and off.

This is an interesting talk on Iran and War - 2010 vintage.

At Columbia

http://www.mei.columbia.edu/iranwar/i...

For those of you interested in political science and economics - here is something for you from the London School of Economics:



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30 by 30

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...

Genre: Sports

Why You Should Listen: If you are a fan of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentaries, you’ll love this spin-off with host Jody Avirgan. Each episode tackles a new sports saga with the same impressive journalistic rigor of the TV series. The podcast takes listeners behind meaningful moments, like when the Miami Heat players snapped that famous “Hoodies Up” photo, and of more obscure stories like that of an all-female trek to the North Pole.

Episode to Get Hooked on: “On the Ice”

Source: Apple and Time

36 Questions

Link: https://www.twoupproductions.com/show...
Podcast Musical

Genre: Fiction

Why You Should Listen: In 2015, a Modern Love essay in the New York Times introduced 36 Questions designed to make strangers fall in love. The essay went viral. Two years later, a genre-bending musical podcast brought those 36 questions into the limelight yet again. Broadway vet Jonathan Groff and newcomer Jessie Shelton star as a couple who try to repair their marriage by taking part in the questionnaire. At turns romantic and heart-wrenching, the innovative narrative represents the future of the musical genre. And it’s just three bingeable episodes.

Episode to Get Hooked on: “36 Questions – The Podcast Musical – Act 1 of 3”

Listen on Apple Podcasts

Source: Time and Apple

74 Seconds
By Minnesota Public Radio

Link: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/52875225...

Genre: News & Politics

Why You Should Listen: The documentary podcast aired last summer during the trial of Jeronimo Yanez, the police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile in 2016. Riham Feshir and Jon Collins, two reporters at Minnesota’s MPR News, chronicle the life of the victim, then the officer, before delving into a second-by-second account of what took place the night of the shooting. This is local journalism at its best. The first four episodes in particular add depth to understanding an important case.

Episode to Get Hooked on: “1: The Driver”

Source: Time and Apple

Raymond Williams on Culture and Society

by Raymond Williams

Synopsis:

-The most important Marxist cultural theorist after Gramsci, Williams' contributions go well beyond the critical tradition, supplying insights of great significance for cultural sociology today... I have never read Williams without finding something worthwhile, something subtle, some idea of great importance-
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Celebrating the significant intellectual legacy and enduring influence of Raymond Williams, this exciting collection introduces a whole new generation to his work.

Jim McGuigan reasserts and rebalances Williams' reputation within the social sciences by collecting and introducing key pieces of his work.

Providing context and clarity he powerfully evokes the major contribution Williams has made to sociology, media and communication and cultural studies.

Powerfully asserting the on-going relevance of Williams within our contemporary neoliberal and digital age, the book:

Includes texts which have never been anthologized - Williams' work both biographically and historically

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Williams' social-scientific work

Demonstrates the enduring relevance of cultural materialism.

Original and persuasive this book will be of interest to anyone involved in theoretical and methodological modules within sociology, media and communication studies and cultural studies.

Review and Commentary:

According to Journalism Professor at Columbia University - Todd Gitlin - "This is an inaugural lecture Raymond Williams gave in 1974, when he assumed a professorship in drama at Cambridge University.

He’s one of the most fertile minds when it comes to media in the last century. Basically he’s saying that it’s extremely odd, and yet central, to the form of civilization that has evolved, that there’s so much drama.

And what he means by drama is not simply normal plays, but everything from advertising to television serials, to the contents of newspapers and magazines. He died in 1988 before a lot of the new technology we have now appeared; he had not encountered the iPhone.

But he anticipates a life in which people are immersed in narrative nonstop. I would add sound, or song, as another important component. This article is, at least to my way of thinking, the earliest statement of the point that quantity becomes quality.

The quantity of a certain kind of media experience creates a different way of life, which is in fact ours. Williams directed us into the whole problem of media saturation as a phenomenon worthy of treatment in its own right. -- Journalism Professor at Columbia University - Todd Gitlin in interview with Five Books

Folks, please let us know what your favorites podcasts are and post why you like them and post a link and indicate what genre they are focused upon.

We would like the posts to focus on podcasts that discuss history or non fiction topics or historical fiction - in fact any podcast that discusses any topic that we have at The History Book Club.

Please free to post any of the above here. As is always the case, we do not allow self promotion of any kind.

Bentley