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The Story of Classical Music
- Written by: Darren Henley
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the chanting of medieval monks through the symphonies of Beethoven and the grand operas of Wagner to the huge orchestral sound-world of the 21st century, with its electronics and its film music.
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The Story of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2011-03-07
- Language: English
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Spray Paint the Walls
- The Story of Black Flag
- Written by: Stevie Chick
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Formed in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1978, for eight brutal years Black Flag made and played brilliant, ugly, no-holds-barred music on a self-appointed touring circuit of America’s clubs, squats, and community halls. They fought with everybody: the police, the record industry, and even their own fans. They toured overseas on pennies a day and did it in beat-up trucks and vans. Spray Paint the Walls tells Black Flag’s story from the inside, drawing on exclusive interviews with the group’s members, their contemporaries, and the bands they inspired.
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Spray Paint the Walls
- The Story of Black Flag
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-12
- Language: English
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The Book of Salsa
- A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
- Written by: César Miguel Rondón, Frances R. Aparicio - translator, Jackie White - translator
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish.
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The Book of Salsa
- A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-10
- Language: English
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Words Will Break Cement
- The Passion of Pussy Riot
- Written by: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a “punk prayer” beseeching the “Mother of God” to “get rid of Putin.” They were quickly shut down by security, and in the weeks and months that followed, three of the women were arrested and tried, and two were sentenced to a remote prison colony. But the incident captured international headlines, and footage of it went viral.
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Words Will Break Cement
- The Passion of Pussy Riot
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-03
- Language: English
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- Written by: William Irwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school - they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia.
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 2020-07-09
- Language: English
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- Written by: Paul Scott
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Abridged
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From his school days in Stoke -on-Trent to his years in Take That, his battle with drink and drugs and the song that 'saved his life', this is the most intimate and well balanced portrait of this excitingly unpredictable showman to date. This Sunday Times bestseller has become the definitive account of Robbie Williams life.
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 2010-02-24
- Language: English
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Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Ma'Chell M. Duma
- Narrated by: Gillian Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The apex of critical praise and commercial success is a metric achieved by a select few. In 2020, Cardi B became synonymous with “record breaking” as her debut album Invasion of Privacy went five times platinum and became the longest charting record by a female rapper in history. From streaming and charting to views, likes, retweets, and shares, Cardi dominates.
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Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Gillian Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-13
- Language: English
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Shiny and New
- Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the ’80s
- Written by: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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The '80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records that either epitomised their time or ushered in a new cultural shift.
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Shiny and New
- Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the ’80s
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-08
- Language: English
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
- Written by: Karen Tongson
- Narrated by: Karen Tongson
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy - the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age 32 from the effects of an eating disorder.
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This is not about Karen carpenter
- By Michelle Preyde on 2024-03-03
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
- Narrated by: Karen Tongson
- Series: Music Matters
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-26
- Language: English
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Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Written by: Sacha Lord, Luke Bainbridge
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three...
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Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-11
- Language: English
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Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
- A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
- Written by: Howard Bloom
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Howard Bloom - called “the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known” by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull - is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm in the music industry and helped build or sustain the careers of our biggest rock legends, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Chaka Khan, and 100 more. What was he after? He was on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me.
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Howard Bloom is amazing.
- By Jeffrey laplante on 2022-10-20
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Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
- A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-18
- Language: English
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Music as an Art
- Written by: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).
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Excellent Book
- By Matthew Willox on 2024-12-03
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Music as an Art
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-23
- Language: English
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- Written by: Gregory Alan Thornbury
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like The Who, Janis Joplin, and The Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus.
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An Incomplete Story
- By Yvon Malenfant on 2019-12-12
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-26
- Language: English
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Elvis in Vegas
- How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
- Written by: Richard Zoglin
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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*The inspiration for the CNN original series Vegas: The Story of Sin City* “Outstanding pop-culture history.” —Newsday The “smart and zippy account” (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis’s...
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Elvis in Vegas
- How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-23
- Language: English
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Prophets of the Hood
- Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
- Written by: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Emil Nicholas Gallina
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip-hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip-hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood.
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Prophets of the Hood
- Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
- Narrated by: Emil Nicholas Gallina
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-16
- Language: English
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Murder Ballads
- Illustrated Lyrics & Lore
- Written by: Katy Horan
- Narrated by: AhDream Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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In this unique collection, Literary Witches co-creator Katy Horan unearths the true and fictional stories behind twenty traditional murder ballads, exploring the beauty and horror of the art form through stories, lyrics, and original interpretations. The audiobook includes covers of various folk...
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Murder Ballads
- Illustrated Lyrics & Lore
- Narrated by: AhDream Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-29
- Language: English
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Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
- Women, Music, and Fame
- Written by: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, in Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women fell in love with music, seized their ambitions, and changed pop culture.
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Thank you Lisa Robinson
- By nicole on 2023-10-18
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Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
- Women, Music, and Fame
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-10
- Language: English
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Satchmo Blows Up the World
- Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
- Written by: Penny M. Von Eschen
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism.
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Phenomenal window into US history
- By Penseur on 2022-05-10
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Satchmo Blows Up the World
- Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-10
- Language: English
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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall
- Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra
- Written by: Maria Noriega Rachwal
- Narrated by: Allegra Fullton
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In the 1940s, it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play “masculine” instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra (MWSO) became the only all-women orchestra in Canadian history. Formed in 1940, the MWSO became the first orchestra to represent Canada in New York City’s Carnegie Hall. The stories of those musicians are illuminated here, including the life of the incredible Ethel Stark, the co-founder and conductor of the MWSO.
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Inspiring story of the MWSO
- By Mary Joy S. on 2022-08-04
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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall
- Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra
- Narrated by: Allegra Fullton
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-10
- Language: English
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The Beatles in Red, 1962-1966
- Inside the Fab Four’s Musical Artistry
- Written by: Kenneth Womack, Scott Freiman
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Dive into the songwriting, musicianship, and production of some of the most influential popular music ever created. Kenneth Womack and Scott Freiman provide accessible, close readings of each song – based on cutting-edge Beatles research – and tackle hard-hitting questions: What were the song's origins, and how was it written? How was the song transformed in the studio? What instruments were used and how did that impact the song's arrangement?
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The Beatles in Red, 1962-1966
- Inside the Fab Four’s Musical Artistry
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 2026-09-03
- Language: English
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