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Your Song Changed My Life
- From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
- Written by: Bob Boilen
- Narrated by: Bob Boilen
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From the beloved host and creator of NPR s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy...
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Your Song Changed My Life
- From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It
- Narrated by: Bob Boilen
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 12-04-16
- 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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We Oughta Know
- How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music
- Written by: Andrea Warner, Vivek Shraya - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrea Warner, Vivek Shraya
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In this of-the-moment essay collection, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner explores the ways in which Céline Dion, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, and Sarah McLachlan became bona fide global superstars while revolutionizing ’90s music. In an era when male-fronted musical acts dominated radio and were given serious critical consideration, these four women were reduced, mocked, and disparaged by the media and became pop culture jokes, even as their albums were topping the charts and demolishing sales records.
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We Oughta Know
- How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music
- Narrated by: Andrea Warner, Vivek Shraya
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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Miles Davis' B---hes Brew
- Written by: George Grella Jr.
- Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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B---hes Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.
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Miles Davis' B---hes Brew
- Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- Written by: Gillian G Gaar
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them—and the grunge phenomenon—internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, Nirvana chose instead to challenge their audience, producing an album that the band's creative force, Kurt Cobain, said truly matched his vision of what he had always wanted his band to sound like.
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne
- How Metal Teaches Us to Live
- Written by: Keith Kahn-Harris
- Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us. What is a ‘good death’? How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious...
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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne
- How Metal Teaches Us to Live
- Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Delta Blues
- The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- Written by: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others.
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Delta Blues
- The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 16-03-21
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Ones
- Written by: Prince
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye, Dan Piepenbring, Esperanza Spalding
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words - featuring the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and...
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The Beautiful Ones
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye, Dan Piepenbring, Esperanza Spalding
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
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The Fight for Free Speech
- Rock Icon Dee Snider Addresses a 1985 Us Senate Hearing on Music Content Labeling
- Written by: Dee Snider
- Narrated by: Dee Snider
- Length: 31 mins
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On September 19, 1985, a US Senate hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)—founded by Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; and Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker—who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all music albums containing alleged offensive material.
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The Fight for Free Speech
- Rock Icon Dee Snider Addresses a 1985 Us Senate Hearing on Music Content Labeling
- Narrated by: Dee Snider
- Length: 31 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- Written by: Daniel Levitin
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human.
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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Music and Technology
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- Written by: Mark Katz
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music—new or old, electronic or not—as technologies worthy of investigation.
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Music and Technology
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)
- Written by: Paul Morley
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Paul Morley, Roger May
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents A Sound Mind by Paul Morley, read by Paul Morley, Roger May and Olivia Dowd. An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (pun intended)' Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together...
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Paul Morley, Roger May
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Written by: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- Written by: DK
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated as masterpieces today. The audiobook introduces the key influences, themes and working methods of each individual, setting their works within a wider historical and cultural context.
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- Written by: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
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Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there. Taking the form of an “oral” history, this books contains more than 130 interviews, along with essential background information from acclaimed music writer Greg Prato.
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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 01-11-21
- Language: English
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- Written by: Stephanie Bennett, Keith Richards, Helen Mirren,
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 19-03-19
- 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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Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys
- The Songs That Tell Their Story
- Written by: Mark Dillon
- Narrated by: Mark Dillon
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Reflecting on the Beach Boys’ long, fascinating history, this book tells the story behind 50 of the band’s greatest songs from the perspective of group members, collaborators, fellow musicians, and notable fans. The band's music is as influential now as it was 50 years ago, and this retelling of how the iconic rock group found itself in the annals of pop culture couldn't come at a better time.
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Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys
- The Songs That Tell Their Story
- Narrated by: Mark Dillon
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
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Lust for Life - Always on my mind
- Pop-Splits
- Written by: N.N.
- Narrated by: Michael Pan
- Length: 35 mins
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Wie Leonard Cohen Janis Joplin flach legte (Chelsea Hotel Nr.2); und wie die britische Königin-Mutter Pete Townshend von The Who dazu brachte, eines seiner besten Lieder zu schreiben (My Generation)...
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Lust for Life - Always on my mind
- Pop-Splits
- Narrated by: Michael Pan
- Length: 35 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-06
- Language: german
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Maestros and Their Music
- The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
- Written by: John Mauceri
- Narrated by: John Mauceri
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century. John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative...
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Maestros and Their Music
- The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
- Narrated by: John Mauceri
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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