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The History of Gangster Rap
- From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
- Written by: Soren Baker, Xzibit - foreword
- Narrated by: James Shippy, Soren Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. From still-swirling conspiracy theories about the murders of Biggie and Tupac to the release of the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, the era of gangster rap is one that fascinates music junkies and remains at the forefront of pop culture.
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The History of Gangster Rap
- From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
- Narrated by: James Shippy, Soren Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-23
- Language: English
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- Written by: Ed Ward
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: The History of Rock & Roll, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2016-12-06
- Language: English
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why Rock Stars Never Retire
- Written by: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: Paul Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July of 1985, we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown, he—and many others of his generation—were just getting started. This was the time when live performance took over from records. The big names of the '60s and '70s exploited the Age of Spectacle that Live Aid had ushered in to enjoy the longest lap of honor in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else in the business had retired.
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why Rock Stars Never Retire
- Narrated by: Paul Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-15
- Language: English
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When the Drummers Were Women
- A Spiritual History of Rhythm
- Written by: Layne Redmond
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer, tells their history.
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When the Drummers Were Women
- A Spiritual History of Rhythm
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-13
- Language: English
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Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Joe Gross
- Narrated by: Rob Vlock
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic follow-up Steady Diet of Nothing) inside of five years, Fugazi was on creative roll, astounding increasingly large audiences as they toured, blasting fist-pumping anthems and jammy noise-workouts that roared into every open underground heart.
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Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rob Vlock
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-13
- Language: English
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The Road to Woodstock
- Written by: Michael Lang, Holly George-Warren
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair begins with Michael Lang, a kid out of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, who liked to smoke a joint and listen to jazz. He would find his way to Florida, open a head shop, and produce his first festival - Miami Pop, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and others - then travel to Woodstock, where, after meeting Artie Kornfeld, his vision for a festival where folks could come and stay for a few days amid the rural beauty of upstate New York would become a reality.
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Great story of a great event
- By Amazon Customer on 2025-10-07
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The Road to Woodstock
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-20
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- The Classical Music That Shapes Us
- Written by: Tom Service
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service, in this official Radio 3 compendium. Music transports us and defines us. As a form of expression, it has been passed down through oral...
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- The Classical Music That Shapes Us
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-13
- Language: English
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Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip Hop History
- Written by: Chuck D, Shepard Fairey - introduction
- Narrated by: Chuck D, D.R.E.S. tha BEATnik, Shepard Fairey
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world. In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no...
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Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip Hop History
- Narrated by: Chuck D, D.R.E.S. tha BEATnik, Shepard Fairey
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-10
- Language: English
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Make My Funk the P-Funk
- Parliament-Funkadelic's Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection
- Written by: Daniel Bedrosian
- Narrated by: Kenneth Medford
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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P-Funk keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian brings to life the recording and musical activity of Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975, an epoch-making year marked by the release of three seminal albums: Chocolate City , Let's Take It to the Stage , and Mothership Connection. By the end of it, George Clinton and P-Funk were catapulted into superstardom, becoming a massive platinum success with multiple hit singles.
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Make My Funk the P-Funk
- Parliament-Funkadelic's Meteoric Rise in 1975 from Chocolate City to Mothership Connection
- Narrated by: Kenneth Medford
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2026-01-08
- Language: English
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When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- Written by: Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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They were the last great band of the '60s and the first great band of the '70s. They rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction, and death.
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Great story, great performance
- By Kelly Coe on 2019-10-21
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When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2009-10-22
- Language: English
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Rockin' the Kremlin
- My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin's Russia
- Written by: David Junk, Fred Bronson
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia opened its borders, and Russian audiences were hungry for Western popular music and the values it espoused. David Junk was one of the first idealistic, young Americans to seize this opportunity. Rockin’ the Kremlin is the thrilling true story of how David became the first CEO of Universal Music Russia and built impactful cultural bridges with music—but also how that would all shatter with the rise of Vladimir Putin and invasions of Ukraine.
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Rockin' the Kremlin
- My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin's Russia
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2025-12-04
- Language: English
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Play It Loud
- An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
- Written by: Brad Tolinski, Alan di Perna, Carlos Santana - introduction
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies...
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Play It Loud
- An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-25
- Language: English
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I Want My MTV
- The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
- Written by: Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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It was a pretty radical idea - a channel for teenagers, showing nothing but music videos. It was such a radical idea that almost no one thought it would actually succeed, much less become a force in the worlds of music, television, film, fashion, sports, and even politics. But it did work. MTV became more than anyone had ever imagined. I Want My MTV tells the story of the first decade of MTV, the golden era when MTV's programming was all videos, all the time, and kids watched religiously to see their favorite bands, learn about new music, and have something to talk about at parties.
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Im an 80s kid.
- By affleck on 2017-10-06
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I Want My MTV
- The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-25
- Language: English
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Run the Song
- Writing About Running About Listening
- Written by: Ben Ratliff
- Narrated by: Ben Ratliff
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Run the Song is also the story of how a professional critic, frustrated with conventional modes of criticism, finds his way back to a deeper relationship with music. When stumped or preoccupied by a piece of music, Ratliff starts to think that perhaps running can tell him more about what he’s listening to—let’s run it, he’ll say. And with that, the listener in turn is invited to listen alongside one of the great listeners of our day in this wildly inventive and consistently thought-provoking chronicle of a profoundly unsettling time.
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Run the Song
- Writing About Running About Listening
- Narrated by: Ben Ratliff
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-08
- Language: English
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Somebody to Love?
- A Rock-and-Roll Memoir
- Written by: Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan
- Narrated by: Grace Slick
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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A candid autobiography of the great rock diva of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, revealing her wild life at the forefront of the Sixties and Seventies counterculture. She has been called rock and roll's original female outlaw, as famous for her bad behavior as for her haunting singing...
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I'M LOVING IT!
- By Cheri M. on 2019-02-03
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Somebody to Love?
- A Rock-and-Roll Memoir
- Narrated by: Grace Slick
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 1999-12-16
- Language: English
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- Written by: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic...
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Very good
- By RW on 2024-04-18
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-16
- Language: English
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Burning Down the Haus
- Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Written by: Tim Mohr
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars, the messed-up clothing and hair, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings, where everyone's future was preordained by some communist apparatchik, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy - quite literally, as it turned out.
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Burning Down the Haus
- Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-11
- Language: English
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20th Century Ambient
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Written by: Dusty Henry
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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20th Century Ambient details a crucial period in which ambient music became a fully realized idea and is secretly one of the most popular genres in the world. This book walks through ambient's ambiguous timeline to uncover not just the genre's evolution but to understand why it resonates so deeply with the human spirit.
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20th Century Ambient
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-13
- Language: English
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Don't Call It Hair Metal
- Art in the Excess of '80s Rock
- Written by: Sean Kelly
- Narrated by: Sean Kelly
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock 'n' roll of the '50s, '60s, and '70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess. Attention to songcraft, showmanship, and musical virtuosity (especially in the realm of the electric guitar) were at an all-time high, and radio and MTV were delivering the goods en masse to the corn-fed children of America and beyond.
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Don't call it anything but entertaining!!
- By Michael I Bax on 2024-02-02
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Don't Call It Hair Metal
- Art in the Excess of '80s Rock
- Narrated by: Sean Kelly
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-06
- Language: English
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Written by: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-17
- Language: English
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