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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

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.

The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early...

All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of "the worst airplane disaster in California's history", which claimed the lives of 32 passengers, including 28 Mexican citizens - farmworkers who were being deported by the US government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the 20th century.

Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz.

Chris Time Steele is the creator of Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and Art. Chris is a teacher, journalist, has co-authored articles with Noam Chomsky and is also a hip-hop artist who has worked with Common.

Three guys talking about everything from current events to politics to food to wild stories we find on the internet and anything in between. The kind of conversations you have sitting at a bar or hanging with your buddies in the garage having a few cold ones (which we encourage greatly). So give it a listen and maybe its TIME FOR ANOTHER.

OPERNFÜHRERBereits nach der ersten Viertelstunde haben meine Hörer einen Überblick über Inhalt und Musik der jeweiligen Oper.In der anschließenden Dreiviertelstunde gibt "Unter der Lupe" vertiefende Informationen übers Werk, seinen Komponisten und die Umstände der Uraufführung, natürlich mit hochkarätigen Musikbeispielen.Idee und Autor: Tim Lange - Aufnahmetechnik und Soundmix: Kai Liekenbröcker Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

«Slow Time» з Тарасом Малим. Автор музичної програми пропонує слухачам і слухачкам сповільнити ритм робочого дня і провести один вечір, вслухаючись у звуки і ритми міст. Від Берлінських клубів і нетуристичних дистриктів Парижу до київських дворів на Подолі і густозаселеного району Сихів у Львові. Від тріп-хопу до ейсід джазу, ...

"Library Rap: The Hip Hop Interviews with Tim Einenkel" is like "Inside the Actor's Studio" for hip hop. Every week, Tim gets inside the art of hip hop in interviews with the most influential emcees, artists, producers, DJs, and sound engineers. Notable guests have included, Ice T, Royce Da 5'9", Joell Ortiz, Talib Kweli, Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, MC Lyte, David Banner, Scarface, Rah Digga, Rapsody, Smif-N-Wessun, Buckshot, along with many more.

Radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio. The time before television and the family all sat around the radio and listened to the shows of the time like ,The Shadow,Abbott & Costello, Amos & Andy,Dragnet and many more.

What makes a college marching band at a school in rural Southeast Ohio so distinguished? Who would have thought that the band kids would become the main event at college football games? Halftime Heroes follows the Ohio University marching band, the Marching 110: specifically, the dedication and commitment required of its members, past and present, to bring it to its current fame. Many people from locally to nationally know of the 110 and their success, however, just how they operate and the commitment from its members has always been shrouded with some level of mystery. In Halftime Heroes, we ...

Lifetimes of Listening seeks out and examines musical memories from people of all walks of life by conducting focused one-on-one interviews. The podcast is a conversation between hosts Dan and Brian and guests whose experience provides insight into how the collected stories reflect why music becomes central to so many people’s lives. Dan Kruse is a documentarian, percussionist, and an ethnomusicologist. Brian Moon is a choral conductor, guitarist, and musicologist. Between them, they have decades of experience working with people of all ages to help understand and value the many connections ...