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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- By: Graeme Lawson
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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Taking us from the present day back to the dawn of time, long-lost music is here reconstructed as we enter the worlds of its makers. We feel a child's delight at playing with a water-filled pot that chirps like a bird in Peru in 700 AD; we appreciate the challenge of a soldier sending signals by trumpet along Hadrian's Wall; we hear the chiming of 64 bells buried in a tomb in 5th century China. Graeme Lawson leads us on a grand tour of the world's greatest musical discoveries, revealing that music is part of our DNA.
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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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How Women Made Music
- A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
- By: National Public Radio Inc
- Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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NPR’s launch of the multi-platform series Turning the Tables in 2017, suddenly pushed more women onto “Best of” lists and into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. With How Women Made Music, acclaimed critic and TtT co-founder Ann Powers and contributor Alison Fensterstock draw from every Turning the Tables season and the full 50-years of NPR archives, to bring a vibrant, entertaining history of women in folk, rock, rap, hip hop, salsa, bubblegum pop, and much more.
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How Women Made Music
- A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
- Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Blacksound
- Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
- By: Matthew D. Morrison
- Narrated by: Matthew D. Morrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface.
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Blacksound
- Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
- Narrated by: Matthew D. Morrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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Hungry Beat
- The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)
- By: Douglas MacIntyre, Grant McPhee
- Narrated by: Angus King, Debbie Cannon, Guy Satchwell, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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The immense cultural contribution made by two maverick Scottish independent music labels, Fast Product and Postcard, cannot be underestimated. Bob Last and Hilary Morrison in Edinburgh, followed by Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins in Glasgow, helped to create a confidence in being Scottish that hitherto had not existed in pop music (or the arts in general in Scotland). Their fierce independent spirit stamped a mark of quality and intelligence on everything they achieved. Hungry Beat is a definitive oral history of these labels and the Scottish post-punk period.
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Hungry Beat .. What Memories !
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-23
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Hungry Beat
- The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)
- Narrated by: Angus King, Debbie Cannon, Guy Satchwell, Jimmy Chisholm, Robin Laing
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Shiny and New
- Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the ’80s
- By: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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The '80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records that either epitomised their time or ushered in a new cultural shift.
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Very good but slightly annoying performance
- By P.Barnhill on 12-05-22
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Shiny and New
- Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the ’80s
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- By: Simon Napier-Bell
- Narrated by: Simon Napier-Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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One-time manager of the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan, Ultravox, Asia, Wham!, and many others, Simon Napier-Bell recollects the 1960s in all its excess and flamboyance. These are frank and scurrilous tales of sex, drugs, and famous stars, encompassing people such as Keith Moon, John Lennon, the Bee Gees, Robert Stigwood, Brian Epstein, the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, and just about everyone else who was there.
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Thank God for the rebels
- By Dorset Bob on 18-09-24
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- Narrated by: Simon Napier-Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-10-18
- 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
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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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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- By: Josh Baron, Dean Budnick
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more - and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox - Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.
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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-01-13
- Language: English
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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Wait-- this was amazing
- By Jojob on 13-03-23
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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The Story of Classical Music
- By: Darren Henley
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the chanting of medieval monks through the symphonies of Beethoven and the grand operas of Wagner to the huge orchestral sound-world of the 21st century, with its electronics and its film music.
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Great introduction to classical music
- By bookworm mummy on 29-08-18
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The Story of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Aled Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-03-11
- Language: English
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Music as an Art
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).
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Scruton is delightful as ever
- By Roger Marlow on 28-01-19
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Music as an Art
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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The Life of Mozart
- By: Edward Holmes
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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In this biography, written long before the significance of Mozart's work was fully realized, Holmes reveals the musician's character and genius, his struggles, his influence on art, and the brilliant reputations that surrounded him.
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Intensely moving, expert account of a great spirit
- By Enobarbus on 11-01-24
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The Life of Mozart
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-02-04
- Language: English
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Woody Guthrie
- An Intimate Life
- By: Gustavus Stadler
- Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Woody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American "rambling man", a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and inspired Bob Dylan. Biographers and fans frame him as a foe of fascism and focus on his politically charged folk songs. What's left unexamined is how the bulk of Guthrie's work - most of which is unpublished or little known - delves into the importance of intimacy in his personal and political life.
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Woody Guthrie
- An Intimate Life
- Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
- By: Greil Marcus
- Narrated by: Henry Rollins
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects 10 songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 and then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock 'n' roll as a thing in itself in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out - a new language, something new under the sun.
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
- Narrated by: Henry Rollins
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-01-15
- Language: English
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The Silver Snarling Trumpet
- By: Robert Hunter
- Narrated by: Brigid Meier, Dennis McNally, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s-a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself-with a Foreword by John Mayer, an Introduction by Dennis McNally, and an Afterword by Brigid Meier.
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The Silver Snarling Trumpet
- Narrated by: Brigid Meier, Dennis McNally, Fred Berman, John Mayer
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Led Zeppelin IV
- Rock of Ages
- By: Barney Hoskyns
- Narrated by: Barney Hoskyns
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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The revealing backstory of the album with no name that spawned 'When the Levee Breaks', 'Black Dog,' 'Stairway to Heaven', and 'Rock 'n' Roll'. Four tracks each side; eight killers, no fillers. This is how they did it.
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Led Zeppelin IV
- Rock of Ages
- Narrated by: Barney Hoskyns
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-04-14
- Language: English
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Life & Works - Franz Schubert
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Tom George, Peter Yapp, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognized master who died almost penniless at the age of 31.
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Schubert realised
- By karen on 01-02-18
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Life & Works - Franz Schubert
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Tom George, Peter Yapp, Stephen Critchlow, Sean Barrett, Jonathan Keeble, Charlie Simpson
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-11-12
- Language: English
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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- By: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury - contributor
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers who forged a sisterhood, found salvation, and fervently crashed the gates of punk rock during the '90s, accidentally becoming feminist icons along the way. More than that, this is a story about the enduring friendship among the book's three central voices: Theo Kogan, Sydney Silver, and Gina Volpe.
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great
- By John Williams (Artist) on 31-08-22
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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Can You Dig It?
- By: Pete Chelala, Bryan Master, Julian Voloj
- Narrated by: Chuck D
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How did hip-hop happen? To understand that, we have to go back to before the ‘birth’ of the culture.
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Getting an education
- By Mantha70 on 29-12-23
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- By: Susan Shumsky DD
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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The spiritual journey of the Beatles is the story of an entire generation of visionaries in the sixties who transformed the world. The Inner Light illumines hidden meanings of the Beatles' India-influenced lyrics and sounds, decoded by Susan Shumsky—a rare insider who spent two decades in the ashrams and six years on the personal staff of the Beatles' mentor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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