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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
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The Uncanny Muse
- Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
- Written by: David Hajdu
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversial aspects of AI: artificial creativity. The adoption of technology and machinery has long transformed the world, but as the potential for artificial intelligence expands, David Hajdu examines the new, increasingly urgent questions about technology's role in culture.
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The Uncanny Muse
- Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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The Perfect Tuba
- Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
- Written by: Sam Quinones
- Narrated by: Sam Quinones
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.
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The Perfect Tuba
- Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
- Narrated by: Sam Quinones
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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The Republic of Rock
- Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
- Written by: Michael J. Kramer
- Narrated by: Lance Axt
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly, heading for the jungles of Vietnam.
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The Republic of Rock
- Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
- Narrated by: Lance Axt
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 03-02-14
- Language: English
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Space Is the Place
- The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
- Written by: John Szwed
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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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.
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Space Is the Place
- The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 09-11-21
- Language: English
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The Real Ambassadors
- Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
- Written by: Keith Hatschek
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
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The Real Ambassadors
- Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
- The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
- Written by: Daphne A. Brooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
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Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry? Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with the work of their musical peers.
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
- The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 24-05-22
- Language: English
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1966
- The Year the Decade Exploded
- Written by: Jon Savage
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
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In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient pop moment burst forth. Exploring the canonical figures, from The Beatles and Boty to Warhol and Reagan, 1966 delves deep into the social and cultural heart of the decade through masterfully compiled archival primary sources.
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1966
- The Year the Decade Exploded
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-21
- Language: English
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- Written by: William Irwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
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Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school - they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia.
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release Date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Top Eight
- How Myspace Changed Music
- Written by: Michael Tedder
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays, including Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Gabe Saporta (Midtown/Cobra Starship), and Max Bemis (Say Anything), veteran music journalist Michael Tedder has crafted a once-in-a-generation exploration of emo and The Scene that is as forthright as it is tenderly nostalgic, taking to task the elements of toxic masculinity and crass consumerism that bled out of the early 2000s cultural milieu and ultimately led to the implosion of emo's first home, MySpace.
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Top Eight
- How Myspace Changed Music
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 01-08-23
- Language: English
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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
- Written 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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Rock Chicks
- Written by: Alison Stieven-Taylor
- Narrated by: Jane Clifton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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This audiobook profiles the hottest rock 'n roll women, spanning the 1960s to current times - from Janis Joplin, Suzi Quatro and Chrissie Hynde to Courtney Love and Pink. With perceptive biographies and in-depth music critiques, author Alison Stieven-Taylor gives an up-close and personal look at the experiences, adventures, and musical passions of these extraordinary and talented women whose wild vocals and on-stage antics have made them rock 'n roll legends.
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Rock Chicks
- Narrated by: Jane Clifton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 28-06-12
- Language: English
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It's Just Begun
- The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ
- Written 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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Gold Experience
- Following Prince in the ’90s
- Written by: Jim Walsh
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artist - and made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully, exhaustively. Here, in real-time, is that coverage: a look back at Prince in the '90s. Walsh's newly unearthed interviews, essays, columns, and reviews make Gold Experience an essential slice of history.
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Gold Experience
- Following Prince in the ’90s
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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I'd Fight the World
- A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
- Written by: Peter La Chapelle
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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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.
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I'd Fight the World
- A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- Written by: Uwe Schütte
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape 'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused...
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 27-02-20
- Language: English
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Ain't I a Diva?
- Beyoncé and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy
- Written by: Kevin Allred, Cheryl Clarke - foreword
- Narrated by: Erik Bloomquist
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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In 2010—long before the release of Lemonade—Professor Kevin Allred created the university course "Politicizing Beyonce" to both wide acclaim and controversy. He outlines his pedagogical philosophy in Ain't I a Diva?, exploring the process of teaching Beyonce and what it means to use a superstar to blow up the canon. Allred brings his syllabus to life by pairing music videos and songs with historical and academic texts, and combines analysis with classroom anecdotes.
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Ain't I a Diva?
- Beyoncé and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy
- Narrated by: Erik Bloomquist
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Why the Beach Boys Matter
- Written by: Tom Smucker
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock.
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Why the Beach Boys Matter
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Series: Music Matters
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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Pop Masculinities
- The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music
- Written by: Kai Arne Hansen
- Narrated by: James R. Cheatham
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early 21st century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That.
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Pop Masculinities
- The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music
- Narrated by: James R. Cheatham
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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The Death of Rhythm and Blues
- Written by: Nelson George
- Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series The Get Down, this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of Black music in the last 50 years, and in doing so, outlines the perilous position of Black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George’s book chronicles the rise and fall of “race music” and its transformation into the R&B that eventually dominated the airwaves, only to find itself diluted and submerged as crossover music.
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The Death of Rhythm and Blues
- Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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