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Michael Jackson
- King of Pop 1958 - 2009
- By: Emily Herbert
- Narrated by: Andre Blake
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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It is belived that, in his lifetime, Michael Jackson sold around 750 million records, making him one of the most successful entertainers ever. This in-depth and affectionate biography traces the rise of the man, from child prodigy to tortured megastar. It is the definitive portrait of a pop legend whose strange and brilliant life will never be forgotten.
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Michael Jackson
- King of Pop 1958 - 2009
- Narrated by: Andre Blake
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-11-09
- Language: English
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Then Sings My Soul (Special Edition)
- By: Robert J. Morgan
- Narrated by: Robert J. Morgan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Is there a festive season of the year that is complete without one of your favorite hymns? Not only do hymns connect you to great memories, but they also reveal the faith of those who lived throughout history. As Robert Morgan explored the stories behind some of the best-loved hymns, he found fascinating accounts of tribulations, triumphs, struggles, and hope—ordinary people who connected with God in amazing ways, sharing their experiences through song.
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Then Sings My Soul (Special Edition)
- Narrated by: Robert J. Morgan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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Run the Song
- Writing About Running About Listening
- By: Ben Ratliff
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 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
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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Black Metal Rainbows
- By: Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world's imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder.
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Black Metal Rainbows
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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Before Elvis
- The African American Musicians Who Made the King
- By: Preston Lauterbach
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters in the summer of 2022, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley’s music and style, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, author Preston Lauterbach answers these questions definitively, based on new research and extensive, previously unpublished interviews with the artists who blazed the way and the people who knew them.
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Before Elvis
- The African American Musicians Who Made the King
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-01-25
- Language: English
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Destiny's Child
- The Untold Story
- By: Mathew Knowles
- Narrated by: Mathew Knowles, Jacqueline Burgess, Leon Youngblood, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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For music executive Mathew Knowles, the sensation that became Destiny’s Child began with his own - Beyoncé. From a unique vantage point, he not only watched but encouraged her dream alongside the ever-evolving phenomenon of the world’s most acclaimed girls group. Listeners get his insights from the mechanics of managing, motivating, and maneuvering talented children through a resistant industry; to parenting and attending to them in all other aspects. His accounts reveal a journey that let to both challenges and controversy underneath an unparalleled success.
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Don’t bother buying this book
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-23
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Destiny's Child
- The Untold Story
- Narrated by: Mathew Knowles, Jacqueline Burgess, Leon Youngblood, Andre Elias
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 18-06-20
- Language: English
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There Goes Gravity
- A Life in Rock and Roll
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home. She spent hours talking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment - and in recording studios just weeks before his murder.
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There Goes Gravity
- A Life in Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-04-14
- Language: English
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The Enduring Ancient Egyptian Musical System
- Theory and Practice
- By: Moustafa Gadalla
- Narrated by: Susie Hennessy
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Discover the cosmic roots of Egyptian musical, vocal, and dancing rhythmic forms. Learn the fundamentals (theory and practice) of music in the typical Egyptian way: simple, coherent, and comprehensive. Review a detailed description of the major Egyptian musical instruments, playing techniques, functions, etc. Discover the Egyptian rhythmic practices in all aspects of their lives.
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The Enduring Ancient Egyptian Musical System
- Theory and Practice
- Narrated by: Susie Hennessy
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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Country Music
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Richard Carlin
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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Country music has long been a marker of American identity; from our popular culture to our politics, it has provided a soundtrack to our national life. While traditionally associated with the working class, country's appeal is far broader than any other popular music style. While this music rose from the people, it is also a product of the popular music industry, and the way the music has been marketed to its audience is a key part of its story.
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Country Music
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-04-20
- Language: English
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Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground
- By: Ian F. Martin
- Narrated by: Ian F. Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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From the sugar rush of Tokyo’s idol subculture to the discordant polyrhythms of its experimental punk and indie scenes, this audiobook by Japan Times music columnist Ian F. Martin offers a witty and tender look at the issues that shape Japanese music today. With insights into the evolution of J-pop as well as its history, infrastructure, and (sub)cultures, Martin deconstructs an industry that operates very differently from counterparts overseas.
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Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground
- Narrated by: Ian F. Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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The Rolling Stones
- By: Claudia Valentini
- Narrated by: Alioe Pagotto, Dario Sansalone
- Length: 51 mins
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Dal primo nucleo di quelli che diventeranno i Rolling Stones, all'arrivo di Brian Jones, che ne sarà l'anima per qualche tempo, fino alla costituzione della vera "fabbrica" Jagger/Richards. Questo audioBook è un viaggio avventuroso e a volte impietoso lungo le tappe di una delle carriere più "granitiche" del rock: quella delle Pietre per eccellenza, i Rolling Stones. Un disco dopo l'altro per raccontare l'avventura della band più longeva della musica senza dimenticare qualche aneddoto curioso e, soprattutto, dando il giusto spazio a quello che più conta.
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The Rolling Stones
- Narrated by: Alioe Pagotto, Dario Sansalone
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 01-03-17
- Language: Italian
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Music History: History of Music: From Prehistoric Sounds to Classical Music, Jazz, Rock Music, Pop Music, and Electronic Music
- 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: 30-10-17
- Language: English
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- By: William Irwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
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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: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Can't Give It Away on Seventh Avenue
- The Rolling Stones and New York City
- By: Christopher McKittrick
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Can't Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City explores the history of the group through the prism of New York. It is a highly detailed document of the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the world's most famous band and America's most famous city as well as an absorbing chronicle of the remarkable impact the city has had on the band's music and career.
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Stones
- By Linda T on 04-08-23
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Can't Give It Away on Seventh Avenue
- The Rolling Stones and New York City
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Gold Experience
- Following Prince in the ’90s
- By: Jim Walsh
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artist - and made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully, exhaustively. Here, in real-time, is that coverage: a look back at Prince in the '90s. Walsh's newly unearthed interviews, essays, columns, and reviews make Gold Experience an essential slice of history.
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So much learnt from a mysterious and creative time
- By MR M P GOULDER on 18-03-17
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Gold Experience
- Following Prince in the ’90s
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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Notes on Chopin
- By: Andre Gide
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed...deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin’s "promenade of discoveries", Gide intersperses musical notation throughout the text to illuminate his arguments, but most moving is Gide’s own poetic expression for the music he so loved.
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Notes on Chopin
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-02-13
- Language: English
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My Love Story (German edition)
- Die Autobiografie
- By: Tina Turner
- Narrated by: Sandra Schwittau
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Die Königin des Rock'n'Roll. "Liebe hat mein Leben gerettet. Davon will ich erzählen." Tina Turner, die Königin des Rock 'n' Roll, wird bald 80 Jahre alt. Unter dem Eindruck einer lebensbedrohlichen Erkrankung, die sie aufgrund einer wunderbaren Wendung überwinden konnte, schildert sie erstmals ihre ganze Geschichte. "Private Dancer", "Simply the Best", "I Can't Stand the Rain" - jeder, der Tina Turners Musik hört, ahnt etwas von ihrer Energie. Ihr Lebenswille und nie versiegender Mut brachten sie aus der Enge der Kindheit in Tennessee auf die Bühnen der Welt.
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My Love Story (German edition)
- Die Autobiografie
- Narrated by: Sandra Schwittau
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-10-18
- Language: German
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The Real Ambassadors
- Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
- By: Keith Hatschek
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
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The Real Ambassadors
- Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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Promise That You Will Sing About Me
- The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar
- By: Miles Marshall Lewis
- Narrated by: Larry Herron, Miles Marshall Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Kendrick Lamar is one of the most influential rappers, songwriters and record producers of his generation. Widely known for his incredible lyrics and powerful music, he is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. In Promise That You Will Sing About Me, pop culture critic and music journalist Miles Marshall Lewis explores Kendrick Lamar’s life, his roots, his music, his lyrics, and how he has shaped the musical landscape.
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Promise That You Will Sing About Me
- The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar
- Narrated by: Larry Herron, Miles Marshall Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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I'd Fight the World
- A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
- By: Peter La Chapelle
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In I'd Fight the World, Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics. These performers and politicians both rode and resisted cultural waves: some advocated for the poor and dispossessed, and others voiced religious and racial anger, but they all walked the line between exploiting their celebrity and righteously taking on the world.
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I'd Fight the World
- A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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