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1966
- The Year the Decade Exploded
- Written by: Jon Savage
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient pop moment burst forth. Exploring the canonical figures, from The Beatles and Boty to Warhol and Reagan, 1966 delves deep into the social and cultural heart of the decade through masterfully compiled archival primary sources.
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1966
- The Year the Decade Exploded
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-02
- Language: English
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Raving Till We Die
- Techno Music from the Late 80s until Now
- Written by: Ian Anderson
- Narrated by: Mary Kell
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of techno music from its inception in the 1980s to the present day. It discussed the various styles and genres that have emerged within techno, and the key artists and tracks that have helped shape the genre. The book also includes details about some of techno's most prominent producers and DJs, offering listeners insight into their creative process and the inspiration behind their music.
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Raving Till We Die
- Techno Music from the Late 80s until Now
- Narrated by: Mary Kell
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-03
- Language: English
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Krautrock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Written by: Marshall Gu
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. Krautrock explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its influences and innovations, its more mainstream acts (like Faust, Kraftwerk, and Can) as well as the less universally known (including Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Embryo, and Ash Ra Tempel), and how the genre developed in post-war Germany and what it means to today's listeners.
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Krautrock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-29
- Language: English
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Why Bowie Matters
- Written by: Will Brooker
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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To many of us, Bowie was so much more than a pop idol. But why? In Why Bowie Matters, Professor Will Brooker answers that question persuasively, as both a fan and an academic. A Bowie obsessive since childhood, he hit the headlines over the course of a year-long immersive research project that took him from London to Berlin and New York, following in Bowie’s footsteps, only listening to music and reading books he loved, and even at times adopting his fashion.
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Why Bowie Matters
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-05
- Language: English
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Jazz 101
- Written by: John F. Szwed
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Jazz 101 is a fascinating entry into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than 50 years.
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Jazz 101
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2004-05-26
- Language: English
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Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
- Written by: Joel Williamson
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society - indeed, American society - in the second half of the 20th century.
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Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2015-01-21
- Language: English
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Deadheads
- Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead
- Written by: Linda Kelly
- Narrated by: Gwen Hughes, Jamie Renell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Just what was it about the Grateful Dead that made them rock and roll's most beloved band? In Deadheads, those with the real story, who were there and are still listening to the music, explain it all. Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow talks about his lifelong friendship with Dead guitarist Bob Weir. Cajun chef Rick Begneaud shares his memories of feeding the Dead. John Popper of Blues Traveler recalls playing with the Dead at Bill Graham's memorial tribute .
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Deadheads
- Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Gwen Hughes, Jamie Renell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2016-02-18
- Language: English
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The Story of Us
- How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives
- Written by: Olivia Levin
- Narrated by: Olivia Levin
- Length: 6 hrs
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We’ve had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story—full of joy, friendship, connection, clowning, and singing at the top of our lungs—is documented in this tribute to the fandom and the reason we’re all here, Taylor Swift. We all know how it started: a teenage girl from...
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The Story of Us
- How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives
- Narrated by: Olivia Levin
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2026-04-14
- Language: English
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Play All Night!
- Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
- Written by: Bob Beatty
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album one of the most important live rock albums in history.
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Play All Night!
- Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-11
- Language: English
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Night Train to Nashville
- The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
- Written by: Paula Blackman
- Narrated by: Paula Blackman, Matt Richbourg
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights. In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou" Bridgeforth might have been as close as...
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Night Train to Nashville
- The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
- Narrated by: Paula Blackman, Matt Richbourg
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-12
- Language: English
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Magnifico!
- The A to Z of Queen
- Written by: Mark Blake
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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From the award-winning author of Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond and Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd comes this deeply researched alphabetical biography of Queen and each of its dynamic members. Addressing the phenomenal success of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, acclaimed music journalist Mark Blake builds on the legend of Queen and their enduring audience appeal.
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Magnifico!
- The A to Z of Queen
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-25
- Language: English
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- Written by: Susan Shumsky DD
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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The spiritual journey of the Beatles is the story of an entire generation of visionaries in the sixties who transformed the world. The Inner Light illumines hidden meanings of the Beatles' India-influenced lyrics and sounds, decoded by Susan Shumsky—a rare insider who spent two decades in the ashrams and six years on the personal staff of the Beatles' mentor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-25
- Language: English
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Walking on the Moon
- The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
- Written by: Chris Campion
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008. Now British journalist Chris Campion draws on extensive research and new interviews to trace the inside saga of this iconic group, including the unorthodox business strategies employed by manager Miles Copeland that took them to the top and the intense rivalry that drove Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland to split at the height of their success in the 1980s.
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Walking on the Moon
- The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-04
- Language: English
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History)
- Written by: Paul Morley
- Narrated by: Paul Morley
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
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Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself retreating into the sounds of artists he loved when, as an emerging music journalist in the '70s, he wrote for NME. But not wishing to give in to dreary nostalgia, endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare and wondrous - and found it in classical music.
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History)
- Narrated by: Paul Morley
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-01
- Language: English
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Mapping Woody Guthrie
- American Popular Music Series, Book 4
- Written by: Will Kaufman
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction, journalism, poetry, and visual art, that gave voice to the distressed and dispossessed. In this insightful audiobook, Will Kaufman examines the artist’s career through a unique perspective: the role of time and place in Guthrie’s artistic evolution.
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Mapping Woody Guthrie
- American Popular Music Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Series: American Popular Music
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-06
- Language: English
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The Next Elvis
- Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- Written by: Barbara Barnes Sims
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters: its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary musicians there exists another story, told by Barbara Barnes Sims. In the male-dominated workforce of the 1950s, 24-year-old Sims found herself thriving in the demanding roles of publicist and sales promotion coordinator at Sun Records.
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The Next Elvis
- Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-29
- Language: English
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Bring That Beat Back
- How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
- Written by: Nate Patrin
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Sampling - incorporating found sound and manipulating it into another form entirely - has done more than any musical movement in the 20th century to maintain a continuum of popular music as a living document and, in the process, has become one of the most successful (and commercial) strains of postmodern art. Bring That Beat Back traces the development of this transformative pop-cultural practice from its origins in the turntable-manning, record-spinning hip-hop DJs of 1970s New York through 40 years of musical innovation and reinvention.
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Bring That Beat Back
- How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-21
- Language: English
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The Notation is Not the Music
- Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance, Publications of the Early Music Institute
- Written by: Barthold Kuijken
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters - and limitations - of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates, performers of historical music should consider what is written on the page as a mere steppingstone for performance.
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The Notation is Not the Music
- Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance, Publications of the Early Music Institute
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2015-01-07
- Language: English
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- Written by: Harry Sword
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-18
- Language: English
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Music History: History of Music: From Prehistoric Sounds to Classical Music, Jazz, Rock Music, Pop Music, and Electronic Music
- Written by: Andrew Sullivan
- Narrated by: Chuck Shelby
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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This is the fascinating story of music. How it started with a song and became one of our most beloved arts. Learn how early composers added modal rhythm to religious chants and turned them into something greater. Discover how the printing press standardized music and helped it spread across the globe. Witness the birth of musical theater, opera, and classical music and the explosion of popular freeform music such as rhapsodies and preludes.
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Music History: History of Music: From Prehistoric Sounds to Classical Music, Jazz, Rock Music, Pop Music, and Electronic Music
- Narrated by: Chuck Shelby
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-30
- Language: English
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