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The Shortest History of Music
- By: Andrew Ford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The Shortest History of Music takes us on a lively tour through several thousands of years of music history, tracing our relationship with this essential art and allowing us to freshly appreciate and understand music today.
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The Shortest History of Music
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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The Uncanny Muse
- Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
- By: David Hajdu
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversial aspects of AI: artificial creativity. The adoption of technology and machinery has long transformed the world, but as the potential for artificial intelligence expands, David Hajdu examines the new, increasingly urgent questions about technology's role in culture.
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The Uncanny Muse
- Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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Minimalist Music
- By: George Grella Jr.
- Narrated by: Ryan Wilson
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Minimalist Music looks critically into the music’s past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism’s ongoing future. Minimalism as a genre is best defined not by any style or flavor but by its means. Certain rhythms and chords in other music may identify...
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Minimalist Music
- Narrated by: Ryan Wilson
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
- American Made Music
- By: Samuel Charters
- Narrated by: Marcus D. Durham
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues
- By: R. Gary Patterson
- Narrated by: Mike Dawson
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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“Paul is dead.” It was the late 1960's, the Beatles hadn’t toured since 1966, and some truly bizarre indications began appearing, pointing to the unthinkable: Paul McCartney had been killed in a car accident and replaced by a look-alike. The Walrus Was Paul unearths every single clue from one of rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring puzzles and takes you on a magical mystery tour of baffling, yet fascinating, hints for solving this mystery.
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The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues
- Narrated by: Mike Dawson
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-03-20
- Language: English
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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- By: Graeme Lawson
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in sixty detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument - or its fragments - in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from...
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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Then Sings My Soul
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- By: Robert J. Morgan
- Narrated by: Steven Grimsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Over one million copies sold! Have you ever wanted to learn more about hymns, but weren’t sure where to start? Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan shares the incredible stories behind the beloved traditional hymns of faith. Each week millions of Christians around the world use hymns composed...
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Then Sings My Soul
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- Narrated by: Steven Grimsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Crying in the Rain
- The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
- By: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence, clad in snug suits and skinny ties, hair neatly Brylcreemed, never raising their voices when they sang. The two prim-looking country boys with dark, curiously penetrating eyes and perfectly merged, honey-dipped harmonies, were oddly but comfortably settled as sentimental, soothing, sometimes lovelorn voices of a still-uncharted cultural turf.
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Imperfect indeed
- By John Vickers on 13-05-25
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Crying in the Rain
- The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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Alternative for the Masses
- The '90s Alt-Rock Revolution - An Oral History
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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No period in the history of rock music offered such an abrupt shift in prevailing tastes as the 1990s. While just a short while before, radio and MTV were clamoring for hair metal bands, suddenly alt-rockers such as Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Primus, Smashing Pumpkins, and of course, Nirvana, brought a sea change not just in what the most popular bands sounded like, but also in fashion, politics, and seemingly all aspects of pop culture.
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A mediocre collection of quotes
- By BillyBrown on 29-05-26
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Alternative for the Masses
- The '90s Alt-Rock Revolution - An Oral History
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- By: Natasha Lasky
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it spelled the end for Britney Spears’ career.
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- By: Carl Wilson
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred — with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt.
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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From the Basement
- A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society
- By: Taylor Markarian
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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A Look at the History of the Emo and Indie Music Era. Explore the cultural, social, and psychological factors surrounding the genres.
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From the Basement
- A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-07-23
- Language: English
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Glastonbury 50
- The Official Story of Glastonbury Festival
- By: Emily Eavis, Michael Eavis
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Jamael Westman, Lauren Laverne, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The story begins in 1970. The day after Jimi Hendrix's death...dairy farmer Michael Eavis invites revellers to his field in Somerset to attend a 'Pop, Folk & Blues' festival. Tickets are £1 each, enticing more than a thousand customers with the promise of music, dance, poetry, theatre, lights and spontaneous entertainment - as well as free milk from his own Worthy Farm cows. Fast forward through five tumultuous decades, and the Eavises' vision now encompasses a gigantic 'city in the fields', with a total annual population nearing a quarter of a million.
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Surprised how this book translated
- By Kiran on 03-11-20
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Glastonbury 50
- The Official Story of Glastonbury Festival
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Jamael Westman, Lauren Laverne, Louise Brealey, Oliver Ford Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Black Music
- By: LeRoi Jones
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.
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Black Music
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-11-14
- Language: English
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Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
- 33 1/3
- By: Ayanna Dozier
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson’s career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman.
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Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Bach's Musical Universe
- The Composer and His Work
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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Exploring American Folk Music
- Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
- By: Kip Lornell
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun - and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States. A chapter includes detailed information about the roots of hip hop.
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Exploring American Folk Music
- Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-11-14
- Language: English
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Brothers and Sisters
- The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s
- By: Alan Paul
- Narrated by: Alan Paul
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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This program is read by the author and contains more than 40 never-before-heard interviews with the band members. New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history...
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Brothers and Sisters
- The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s
- Narrated by: Alan Paul
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 25-07-23
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska (Expanded 2nd Edition)
- By: Aaron Carnes
- Narrated by: Aaron Carnes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In Defense of Ska podcast creator/host Aaron Carnes presents the case that ska never died, by jumping headfirst into ska's "lost years," i.e., the period after the 90s third-wave ska boom.
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In Defense of Ska (Expanded 2nd Edition)
- Narrated by: Aaron Carnes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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Radiohead's OK Computer
- 33 1/3
- By: Dai Griffiths
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Seemingly granted ‘classic album’ status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World – a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. Through close musical analysis of each song, Dai Griffiths explores the themes and ideas that have made this album resonate so deeply with its audience, and argues that OK Computer is one of the most successfully realized CD albums so far created.
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Radiohead's OK Computer
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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