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Swingin' at the Savoy
- Written by: Norma Miller, Evette Jensen
- Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that "spread the power of Swing across the world like Wildfire". It was a time when the music was Swing, and Harlem was king.
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Swingin' at the Savoy
- Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-28
- Language: English
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
- American Made Music Series
- Written by: Clarence Bernard Henry
- Narrated by: Charles Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy of Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of American, African American, popular, and world music traditions.
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Charles Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-15
- 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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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
- American Made Music Series
- Written by: Philip R. Ratcliffe
- Narrated by: Steve Hart
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Mississippi John Hurt provides this legendary creator's life story for the first time. Biographer Philip Ratcliffe traces Hurt's roots to the moment his mother Mary Jane McCain and his father Isom Hurt were freed from slavery. Ratcliffe details Hurt's musical influences and the origins of his style and repertoire. The author also relates numerous stories from the time of his success, drawing on published sources and many hours of interviews with people who knew Hurt well.
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Steve Hart
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-09
- Language: English
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Barbra Streisand
- Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power (Jewish Lives)
- Written by: Neal Gabler
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business.
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Barbra Streisand
- Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power (Jewish Lives)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-17
- Language: English
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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
- Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
- Written by: Frederick Luis Aldama - editor
- Narrated by: Kellie Fitzgerald
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general listener as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors.
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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
- Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
- Narrated by: Kellie Fitzgerald
- Series: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-31
- Language: English
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Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues
- Written by: Stuart L. Goosman
- Narrated by: Armand Hutton
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1948, the Orioles, a Baltimore-based vocal group, recorded "It's Too Soon to Know". Combining the sound of Tin Pan Alley with gospel and blues sensibilities, the Orioles saw their first hit reach #13 on the pop charts, thus introducing the nation to vocal rhythm & blues and paving the way for the most successful groups of the 1950s. In the first scholarly treatment of this influential musical genre, Stuart Goosman chronicles the Orioles' story and that of myriad other black vocal groups in the postwar period.
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Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues
- Narrated by: Armand Hutton
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2012-08-23
- Language: English
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Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical
- Written by: Robert L. McLaughlin
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean.
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Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-27
- Language: English
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Music and Embodied Cognition
- Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking
- Written by: Arnie Cox
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs
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Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis", the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music.
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Music and Embodied Cognition
- Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 2018-01-23
- Language: English
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For the Sake of the Song
- Essays on Townes Van Zandt
- Written by: Ann Norton Holbrook, Dan Beller-McKenna
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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After death, Townes Van Zandt found the success that he sabotaged during life. Diagnosed as bipolar, an alcoholic, and perennially unreliable, Van Zandt died of heart failure at the age of 52 on New Year’s Day in 1997. He released 16 albums during life. Since his death, several more albums have been released, both by and in honor of him.
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For the Sake of the Song
- Essays on Townes Van Zandt
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-03
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
- Written by: Leigh H. Edwards
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes - the innocent mountain girl and the voluptuous sex symbol. By developing a multilayered image and persona, Dolly both critiques representations of femininity in country music and attracts a diverse fan base ranging from country and pop music fans to feminists and gay rights advocates.
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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-05
- Language: English
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A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
- American Made Music
- Written by: Samuel Charters
- Narrated by: Marcus D. Durham
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
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Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than 50 years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages - African American, white, and Creole - in jazz's formative years.
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A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
- American Made Music
- Narrated by: Marcus D. Durham
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-08
- Language: English
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John Cage
- American Composers
- Written by: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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John Cage was a giant of American experimental music - composer, writer, and artist. He is most widely known for his 1952 composition "4'33", whose three movements continue to challenge the definition of music by being performed without playing a single note. In questioning fundamental tenets of Western music, Cage was often at the center of controversy, and is regarded as an important contributor to many facets of American culture.
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John Cage
- American Composers
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-01
- Language: English
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Leonard Bernstein
- An American Musician (Jewish Lives)
- Written by: Allen Shawn
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of 20th-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries, as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People’s Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical music. In this fascinating new biography, the breadth of Bernstein’s musical composition is explored, through the spectacular range of music he composed—from West Side Story to Kaddish to A Quiet Place and beyond—and through his intensely public role as an internationally celebrated conductor.
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Leonard Bernstein
- An American Musician (Jewish Lives)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-02
- Language: English
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The Guitar in America
- Victorian Era to Jazz Age
- Written by: Jeffrey J. Noonan
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the audiobook considers the BMG community within America's larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country's uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce.
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The Guitar in America
- Victorian Era to Jazz Age
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-28
- Language: English
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
- The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
- Written by: Iain Anderson
- Narrated by: Paul Steven Forrest
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis.
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
- The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
- Narrated by: Paul Steven Forrest
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-02
- Language: English
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Listen to This
- Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
- Written by: Victor Svorinich
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis' watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for 10-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African-American consciousness.
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Listen to This
- Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2016-12-16
- Language: English
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A Deeper Blue
- The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
- Written by: Robert Earl Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’ - and America’s - greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour.
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A Deeper Blue
- The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-27
- Language: English
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
- American Made Music Series
- Written by: Richard J. Ripani
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called "doo-wop", "soul", "funk", "urban contemporary", or "hip-hop", R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes all of these styles and genres. It is in fact a modern-day incarnation of a musical tradition that stretches back to 19th-century America, and even further to African beginnings.
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-11
- 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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