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Breve historia de la música
- By: Javier María López
- Narrated by: Juan Manuel Martínez
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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La música es una manifestación artística presente en la totalidad de la historia. Desde el nacimiento de las primeras sociedades tribales hasta la actualidad, ha acompañado al hombre no sólo en los acontecimientos históricos más relevantes, sino en la vida cotidiana de los seres humanos. Es por esto que un acercamiento a la historia de la música es necesario para cualquier hombre, pero muchas veces los conceptos musicales pueden ser complejos o nuevos para el oyente.
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Breve historia de la música
- Narrated by: Juan Manuel Martínez
- Series: Breve Historia de
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-07-14
- Language: Spanish
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Late Life Jazz
- The Life and Career of Rosemary Clooney
- By: Ken Crossland, Malcom Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Drawing on interviews with family members, managers, promoters, and the jazz musicians who worked with her, as well as contemporary newspaper articles and reviews, Late Life Jazz tells the unsung story of one of America's finest singers, Rosemary Clooney. Ken Crossland and Malcolm Macfarlane trace Rosemary's life from her hardscrabble beginnings in Maysville Kentucky, through her first performances singing with the Barney Rapp Band in Cincinnati, through her rise to pop stardom in the early 1950s.
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Late Life Jazz
- The Life and Career of Rosemary Clooney
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-06-14
- Language: English
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Linthead Stomp
- The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
- By: Patrick Huber
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers.
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Linthead Stomp
- The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-02-14
- Language: English
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This Land That I Love
- Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems
- By: John Shaw
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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February, 1940. After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn "God Bless America."
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This Land That I Love
- Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-11-13
- Language: English
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Barking Man
- And Other Stories
- By: Madison Smartt Bell
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his masterly, inventive, and deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters.
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Barking Man
- And Other Stories
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-07-13
- Language: English
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My Country
- 50 Musicians on God, America & The Songs They Love
- By: Melanie Dunea
- Narrated by: Julia Farhat
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Award-winning photographer and author of My Last Supper Melanie Dunea traces the through-lines from country music’s gritty roots to the chart-topping chanteuses of today. My Country presents beautiful, imaginative, and revealing depictions of icons ranging from Taylor Swift to Wynonna Judd to Little Jimmy Dickens alongside interviews that reveal the stars’ musical roots and inspirations, their defining moments, and what makes country music the heart and soul of America.
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My Country
- 50 Musicians on God, America & The Songs They Love
- Narrated by: Julia Farhat
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-07-13
- Language: English
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Changing Lives
- Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
- By: Tricia Tunstall
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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When Gustavo Dudamel, at the age of 28, ascended the podium at the Hollywood Bowl for his inaugural concert as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he immediately captivated the hearts of his audience, just as he had the minds of music critics who designated him a modern-day Leonard Bernstein. In Changing Lives, the maestro's story becomes the entry point to an equally captivating subject: El Sistema, the music education program that nurtured his musical talent, first as a young violinist and then as a budding conductor under the mentorship of its founder, Jos Antonio Abreu.
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Changing Lives
- Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-06-13
- Language: English
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The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll: Radio Deejays of the '50s and '60s
- By: Wes Smith
- Narrated by: Gary Theroux
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll, Wes Smith examines the phenomenon of the AM deejays who captivated a generation and helped define the counterculture that has forever changed the landscape of American youth. Smith takes a close look at nine of the men who made this happen and explores the reasons for their influence and its lasting effects on the generation whose lives still unfold to the soundtrack laid down by these platter-spinners of their youth.
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The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll: Radio Deejays of the '50s and '60s
- Narrated by: Gary Theroux
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-05-13
- Language: English
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Piano Demon
- The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia
- By: Brendan I. Koerner
- Narrated by: Brendan I. Koerner
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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At age six, Teddy Weatherford was working in the coal mines of Virginia. By his early 20s he was the toast of Chicago's jazz scene, rivaling Louis Armstrong and wowing Jelly Roll Morton with his piano talent. But when Weatherford left segregated America for the allures of Shanghai and Bombay, he set out on an adventure he hadn't imagined. The man they called "The Seagull" would become the globetrotting jazz king of Asia in the shadow of World War II, and provide the soundtrack for the last gasp of an empire.
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Piano Demon
- The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia
- Narrated by: Brendan I. Koerner
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-09-12
- Language: English
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The Deejays
- By: Arnold Passman
- Narrated by: Alan Douglas
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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In 1971, Arnold Passman's The Deejays was the first book to closely examine the rise of the disc jockey - the tribal chieftains who manipulate (and possibly create) popular taste with every spin of the turntable. It became the "go-to" reference book on the subject for decades thereafter. From Martin Block to "Jazzbo" Collins, Alan Freed to Murray the K, Wolfman Jack to Rosko, this is the definitive saga of the men behind the music. Long out-of-print, this volume is now presented in digital form.
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The Deejays
- Narrated by: Alan Douglas
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-09-12
- Language: English
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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
- By: Leigh H. Edwards
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Throughout his career, Johnny Cash was depicted - and depicted himself - as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues that Cash embodied irresolvable contradictions of American identity that reflect foundational issues in the American experience.
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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-09-10
- Language: English
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It's Just Begun
- The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ
- By: Ivan Sanchez, Louis Cedeno
- Narrated by: Joe Rodriguez
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican, Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeño is 100 percent Boogie Down Bronx. Born in the 60s, Wiz struggled in a turbulent and violent relationship with his alcoholic father while trying to protect his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. Raised in the 70s, Wiz learned the code of the streets while hustling with his crew, the East Side Boys.
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It's Just Begun
- The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ
- Narrated by: Joe Rodriguez
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-05-09
- Language: English
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All Shook Up
- Music, Passion, and Politics
- By: Carson Holloway
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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The national debate over popular music's effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain primarily about lyrics, appealing to public decency and safety. Liberals, swift to the defense of any self-expression, simultaneously celebrate rock's liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence.
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All Shook Up
- Music, Passion, and Politics
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-05-06
- Language: English
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Sempreverdi
- 14 opere in forma di racconto
- By: Vittorio Sermonti
- Narrated by: Vittorio Sermonti
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Con uno stile raffinato e trascinante, Vittorio Sermonti "spiega al popolo" quattordici opere di Verdi, "il più spudorato genio della musica per teatro", dal Nabucco all'Otello, passando per l'Aida, il Rigoletto, il Trovatore e la Traviata. Ci fa riscoprire i celebri melodrammi attraverso il racconto della trama e persino della musica, l'analisi dei personaggi, riferimenti alla vita e alle lettere di Verdi, accenni alle vicende del libretto, notizie sparse sulle prime esecuzioni, annotazioni storiche sull'Italia del Risorgimento e dell'Unità.
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Sempreverdi
- 14 opere in forma di racconto
- Narrated by: Vittorio Sermonti
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: Italian
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Build
- The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
- By: Mark Katz
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Since 2001, the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: Hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building.
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Build
- The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-12-19
- Language: English
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Beethoven
- The Relentless Revolutionary
- By: John Clubbe
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.
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Beethoven
- The Relentless Revolutionary
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Why Bowie Matters
- By: Will Brooker
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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To many of us, Bowie was so much more than a pop idol. But why? In Why Bowie Matters, Professor Will Brooker answers that question persuasively, as both a fan and an academic. A Bowie obsessive since childhood, he hit the headlines over the course of a year-long immersive research project that took him from London to Berlin and New York, following in Bowie’s footsteps, only listening to music and reading books he loved, and even at times adopting his fashion.
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Why Bowie Matters
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Rock en progresión
- Sonidos de ayer. Miradas del mañana
- By: Fran Molinero, Xandru Fernández, Fernando Galicia Poblet, and others
- Narrated by: Pilar Corral
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Un concienzudo y emocionante repaso a la historia del rock progresivo, desde sus raíces contraculturales en los años sesenta a la fusión con otros lenguajes musicales, pasando por la veta sinfónica británica o la instrumentación multicultural que marca tendencia en la actualidad. Un audiolibro ideal para entendidos en la materia y para neófitos que quieren iniciarse en el apasionante mundo del rock progresivo.
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Rock en progresión
- Sonidos de ayer. Miradas del mañana
- Narrated by: Pilar Corral
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-06-22
- Language: Spanish
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Giro, giro tondo
- By: Edoardo Bennato
- Narrated by: Gustavo La Volpe
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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L’uguaglianza, la fine delle guerre, la solidarietà, il rispetto per l’ambiente non sono soltanto i temi di cui ogni giorno, e con sempre più forza, si impara ora a discutere, ma anche ciò in cui Edoardo Bennato crede con forza e i valori che da sempre, con le sue canzoni, porta avanti. La sua discografia, infatti, può essere letta come un’antologia di spirito civico e un manuale di teoria e pratica della rivoluzione: attraverso il filtro giocoso e ironico delle sue storie, i suoi singoli più famosi.
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Giro, giro tondo
- Narrated by: Gustavo La Volpe
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-05-24
- Language: Italian
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Alma Negra Alma Branca [Black Soul White Soul]
- O Verdadeiro Rosto Do Blues [The True Face of Blues]
- By: Patrizia Barrera
- Narrated by: Manuel Caetano
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Uma viagem no mundo antigo do blues: como nasceu, as suas origens, o seu percurso no mundo. E depois muitas histórias e biografias sobre os seus protagonistas, brancos e negros, que contribuíram para criá-lo e para difundi-lo ao grande público.
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Alma Negra Alma Branca [Black Soul White Soul]
- O Verdadeiro Rosto Do Blues [The True Face of Blues]
- Narrated by: Manuel Caetano
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: Portuguese
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