Showing results for "Century" in Music

20th Century Ambient details a crucial period in which ambient music became a fully realized idea and is secretly one of the most popular genres in the world. This book walks through ambient's ambiguous timeline to uncover not just the genre's evolution but to understand why it resonates so deeply with the human spirit.

The 20th century was a hotbed of musical exploration, innovation, and transformation unlike any other epoch in history. Ranging across the century in its entirety, these 24 lectures present a musical cornucopia of astounding dimensions - a major presentation and exploration of the incredible brilliance and diversity of musical art across a turbulent century. Far more than simply a series of lectures, the program comprises a huge and many-sided resource for discovering the endless riches of 20th-century concert music across the globe.

An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical...

Conversations that don’t suck about the music, movies, TV, etc. of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s (and all that that implies).Hosts: Mandy Heaps and Rob VeraX/Twitter: @CenturyTurnInstagram/Threads: @TOTCenturyE-mail: TOTCThePodcast@gmail.comLinktree: https://linktr.ee/TOTCPod

Chicago musician 21st Century Sundance Kid interviews other Chicago musicians!

An unofficial continuation of BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 21st Century. If you’ve found this podcast, then chances are, like me, you were a massive fan of BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the 20th Century. Created by Trevor Dann’s Company, the original series ran from 2011 and 2012. Each episode was an hour of one particular year’s biggest moments (news, TV shows, films, sports etc), alongside that year’s memorable hit songs. It was similar to the Rock and Roll Years TV shows from the ’90s, which broadcasting legend Trevor Dann was also behind. What was particularly awesome about it, was ...

La musica è parte di noi. Ne siamo circondati, dal primo caffè al bar la mattina alla sera tornando a casa imbottigliati nel traffico. Certo, la musica non è mai la stessa, le tendenze cambiano. Per questo vi proponiamo un viaggio musicale, nel tempo, per ricordarvi quella canzone che anni fa vi ha fatto sognare, piangere, divertire. Perché prima di tutto la musica è un’emozione. Scatenatevi pure, buon viaggio!🚀⚡️🎶🎵

20TH CENTURY POP! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each episode hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.

Stories and reflections on the music of the 20th Century host by John Kenneally. John started in the music business in the early 70s, working in retail before moving into radio. He then spent 26 years in radio as a programmer, producer and presenter, always maintaining a close association with music. He still does the occasional music spot on-air and is still exploring his favourite subject.

It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the phonograph epoch of the 1930s. Piracy, it turns out, is as old as recorded music itself. In Democracy of Sound, Alex Sayf Cummings uncovers the little-known history of music piracy and its sweeping effects on the definition of copyright in the United States.

Reggae superstar Bob Marley is one of the world’s most important and influential artists. Exodus, named by Time magazine as “Album of the Century,” is Bob Marley’s masterpiece of spiritual exploration. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to his social conscience. Now, in The Book of Exodus, Goldman chronicles the making of this album, from its conception in Jamaica to the raucous but intense all-night studio sessions in London.

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.—a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all...

A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz—laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s. It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock...

An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife Though Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven years young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, his enduring...

Finn Wrisley assembles a team of music experts/snobs, and runs them through a gauntlet of songs old, new, borrowed, and blue. Is your favorite tune a Sweet Release? Or is it a party-crushing Rock Block? It's high-fidelity judgement for rockers great and small!