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The Wonder of Stevie
- Written by: Wesley Morris
- Narrated by: Wesley Morris, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama,
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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The year 1972 saw the beginning of a five-year span in which Stevie Wonder released five groundbreaking, critically acclaimed albums, garnering him more than half a dozen Grammys and more than 10 million albums sold, securing his place as one of the most important American musicians and songwriters in history. For the first time, uncover the untold story of an extraordinary artistic journey that shaped the greatest creative era in popular music history.
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The Wonder of Stevie
- Narrated by: Wesley Morris, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Questlove, Dionne Warwick, Janelle Monáe, Smokey Robinson, Babyface, Ray Parker Jr., Deniece Williams, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
- Composers & Musicians · History & Criticism
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Rock of Pages
- The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal
- Written by: Jesse Kavadlo
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo analyzes the ways in which 1980s heavy metal aligns with and develops many of the themes prevalent in the canon of literature. In doing so, the book examines some of the contexts of 1980s heavy metal, including Cold War, the rise of MTV, and the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) and subsequent congressional hearings.
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Rock of Pages
- The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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The Devil Is in It
- A History of the American Acoustic Guitar
- Written by: John Stubbings
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2020, guitar expert John Stubbings released a limited-edition book on the American acoustic guitar that sold out in days. Now, The Devil Is in It returns with additional research and subject matter for a new generation of listeners. Stubbings traveled the country and met with guitar makers, players, collectors, and historians to unravel the long and rich history of the acoustic guitar, its evolution, and the music it has made over the last hundred years.
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The Devil Is in It
- A History of the American Acoustic Guitar
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- Written by: Chris DeVille
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, something secret, something superior. In Such Great Heights, music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming upends the industry and changes music forever.
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music · Popular Culture
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- Written by: Lizzy Goodman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of...
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs
- Written by: James Wolcott
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Critical Mass is a treasure trove of sparkling, spiky prose and a fascinating portrait of our lives and cultural times over the past decades. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, James Wolcott’s fearless essays and reviews offer a bracing taste of the real critical thing.
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-14
- Language: English
- Art · Film & TV · History & Criticism
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Beatleness
- How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
- Written by: Candy Leonard
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives, creating a relationship that was historically unique. Looking at that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, and other events of those tumultuous years, the audiobook critically examines the often-heard assertion that the Beatles changed everything.
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Beatleness
- How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-14
- Language: English
- Americas · History & Criticism · Music
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Wishing on the Moon
- The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
- Written by: Donald Clarke
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and this authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life - from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline.
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Wishing on the Moon
- The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 21-06-12
- Language: English
- Composers & Musicians · History & Criticism
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Music
- A Subversive History
- Written by: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate...
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Music
- A Subversive History
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
- Ancient · Europe · Great Britain
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- Written by: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 14-05-14
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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The Story of Grunge
- Written by: Michael Stewart Foley, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael Stewart Foley
- Length: 3 hrs
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You can’t truly understand the last decade of the 20th century without a look at the muddy, electrifying rock music that would come to define it: grunge. For such a short-lived genre—at least in the mainstream—grunge had a lasting impact on American music and culture. It also provides a unique lens through which to examine the post-Reagan, pre-internet America of the 1990s. In the six lectures of The Story of Grunge, you’ll explore the rise and evolution of the genre, tracing it from Seattle subculture to MTV and the Billboard charts, all the way to its decline and evolution into new forms.
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The Story of Grunge
- Narrated by: Michael Stewart Foley
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release Date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
- Composers & Musicians · History & Criticism
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The Beatles Play Shea
- Written by: James Woodall
- Narrated by: Christopher Price
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles' third tour of North America was nearly a year in the planning. By late 1964, manager Brian Epstein knew that they were not only the biggest act in his stable: they had become the biggest act on earth. America worshipped them. Somewhere different for the start of this tour, in New York - somewhere appropriately massive - had to be found. It was: a baseball stadium in Flushing, Queens. On August 15, 1965, The Beatles played the concert of their lives there.
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The Beatles Play Shea
- Narrated by: Christopher Price
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release Date: 29-08-16
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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Great Piano Works Explained
- Written by: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most beloved masterpieces. In these 24 musically rich lectures, you’ll dig deeply into this magnificent tradition, in an in-depth exploration of the art of listening. With Professor Kautsky’s inspired guidance and expert playing, you’ll highlight key works of each composer, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.
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Great Piano Works Explained
- Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 07-10-22
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Kirk Walker Graves
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future–very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity–MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era’s most dynamic artist.
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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The History of Classical Music
- Written by: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Also available: The History of Opera.
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The History of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 06-07-00
- Language: English
- History & Criticism · Music
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How Music Works
- The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
- Written by: John Powell
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Have you ever wondered how off-key you are while singing in the shower? Or if your Bob Dylan albums really sound better on vinyl? Or why certain songs make you cry? Now, scientist and musician John Powell invites you on an entertaining journey through the world of music. Discover what distinguishes music from plain old noise, how scales help you memorize songs, what the humble recorder teaches you about timbre (assuming your suffering listeners don’t break it first), and more.
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How Music Works
- The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 20-12-10
- Language: English
- Creativity & Genius · History & Criticism
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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- Written by: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
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From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan exploded out of the early 60s roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. Dennis McNally, the band's historian and publicist for more than 20 years, takes listeners back through the Dead's history.
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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 28-11-17
- Language: English
- Composers & Musicians · History & Criticism
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Uncommon People
- Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
- Written by: Miranda Sawyer
- Narrated by: Miranda Sawyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Liam Gallagher in 1994, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news all over the world. This fascinating pop history, exploring the moment British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators, UNCOMMON PEOPLE takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, films like Trainspotting were international hits, rave became what everybody did - and it felt like the revolution was happening.
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Uncommon People
- Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
- Narrated by: Miranda Sawyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
- Europe · Great Britain · History & Criticism
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Lighters in the Sky
- Written by: Corbin Reiff
- Narrated by: Corbin Reiff
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Have your tickets ready. Keep the aisles clear. And prepare yourself for the heavy-duty epic-ness that’s ahead. This is Lighters in the Sky. In this eight-episode Audible Original we’ll dive deep into the most mind-blowing concerts ever performed. And in each engrossing episode, you’ll feel transported to a time and place that changed the landscape of music forever. Listeners will hear from the people who actually lived the legend, and through the power of immersive sound – you may just feel like you were in attendance too.
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Unfinished
- The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Written by: Lucas Cantor Santiago
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Unfinished by Lucas Cantor Santiago, read by Christopher Ragland. For most of his career, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard-won human wisdom, and tried-and-true methods of mastery.
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Unfinished
- The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
- Computer Science · History & Criticism · Music
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