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Into the Mystic
- The Visionary and Ecstatic Roots of 1960s Rock and Roll
- By: Christopher Hill
- Narrated by: Christopher Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s Examines the visionary, spiritual, and mystical influences on the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, the Incredible String Band, the Left Banke, Lou Reed and...
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Into the Mystic
- The Visionary and Ecstatic Roots of 1960s Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Christopher Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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The Beatles
- Image and the Media
- By: Michael R. Frontani
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the United States. Michael R. Frontani explores how the Beatles' media image evolved and how this transformation related to cultural and historical events.
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The Beatles
- Image and the Media
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 16-03-12
- Language: English
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George Michael's Faith
- 33 1/3
- By: Matthew Horton
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasseled leather jacket, walked out of London’s Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He’d just disposed of Wham!, the band he’d formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when they were teenagers, and now, at 23, he knew he was all grown up. He just needed to convince everyone else.
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George Michael's Faith
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- 33 1/3
- By: Sequoia Maner
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a canonized place in Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record stimulate the emotions and imaginations of listeners?
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Death Metal
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: T Coles
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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Guitars playing abrasive, discordant riffs, the thunderous double-kick of the drums acting like an accelerated heartbeat, and porcine, guttural vocals pummeling twisted lyrics. Courting controversy from inception to its modern day iteration, death metal presents a number of contradictions: Driven and adventurous musicians compete to make uncomfortable noises; it is crude and far beyond parody and yet consistently popular; and the music is pig-headedly uncommercial despite making a few labels, albeit briefly, wealthy.
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Death Metal
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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Hip Hop America
- By: Nelson George
- Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between Black youth culture and the mass media.
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Hip Hop America
- Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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The Beatles 100
- 100 Pivotal Moments in Beatles History
- By: John Borack
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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In 100 brief chapters, John M. Borack discusses and ranks the greatest moments in Beatles history. An avid Fab Four fan since childhood and a music journalist for more than 35 years, Borack has created a book to agree with and disagree with, and one that is sure to spark conversations. A love letter to the greatest rock band of all time, The Beatles 100 is a book for Beatles buffs and casual fans alike.
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Like a 6th form project
- By JJ Varney on 23-04-23
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The Beatles 100
- 100 Pivotal Moments in Beatles History
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
- By: George Grella Jr.
- Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Bitches 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' Bitches Brew
- Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Linthead Stomp
- The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
- By: Patrick Huber
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers.
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Linthead Stomp
- The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-02-14
- Language: English
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- By: Carl Wilson
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred — with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt.
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne
- How Metal Teaches Us to Live
- By: Keith Kahn-Harris
- Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 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: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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The Silver Snarling Trumpet
- By: Robert Hunter
- Narrated by: Brigid Meier, Dennis McNally, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s-a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself-with a Foreword by John Mayer, an Introduction by Dennis McNally, and an Afterword by Brigid Meier.
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The Silver Snarling Trumpet
- Narrated by: Brigid Meier, Dennis McNally, Fred Berman, John Mayer
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Elvis in Vegas
- How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
- By: Richard Zoglin
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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*The inspiration for the CNN original series Vegas: The Story of Sin City* “Outstanding pop-culture history.” —Newsday The “smart and zippy account” (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis’s...
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Elvis in Vegas
- How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- By: Dave Hickey
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- By: Natasha Lasky
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it spelled the end for Britney Spears’ career.
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Vinyl Diaries
- Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy
- By: Pete Crighton
- Narrated by: Pete Crighton
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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A poignant, funny, and lively memoir of sexual awakening, music, and discovering one's true self. Pete Crighton came of age in the early/mid 1980s in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Growing up in Toronto, he was terrified that his friends and schoolmates would find out that he was “different” at a...
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The Vinyl Diaries
- Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy
- Narrated by: Pete Crighton
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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High Energy (German edition)
- Die Achtziger - das pulsierende Jahrzent
- By: Jens Balzer
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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Es sieht nicht alles schlimm aus in den achtziger Jahren. Aber vieles. Es ist das Jahrzehnt der explodierenden Dauerwellen und Pornoschnauzbärte, der aufgepumpten Schulterpolsterjacketts und schrillen Herumprotzerei; in den Achtzigern werden die Yuppies zu Vorreitern einer neuen Egoistenkultur. Doch gleichzeitig herrscht die Angst vor der Apokalypse, vor dem Atomtod und der Umweltzerstörung; die Menschen sehnen sich nach Utopien und Zukunft, nach neuer Gemeinschaft und Wärme.
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High Energy (German edition)
- Die Achtziger - das pulsierende Jahrzent
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: German
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God Save the Queens
- The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
- By: Kathy Iandoli
- Narrated by: Kathy Iandoli, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop’s female pioneers and its enduring stars. Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop to Shea Serrano’s The Rap Yearbook, focuses...
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God Save the Queens
- The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
- Narrated by: Kathy Iandoli, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Miles to Go
- By: Chris Murphy
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Miles to Go is a frank and intimate exploration of Miles Davis' eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression, and subsequent recovery. Murphy explores Davis' troubled relationship with his children and the controversial role Cicely Tyson played in his life. The book also delves into the dynamics that made Davis' band work so well together, placing Davis' work in a historic, literary, and musical framework.
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No thanks
- By Jr Powney on 07-01-20
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Miles to Go
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-05-06
- Language: English
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Country Music
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Richard Carlin
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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Country music has long been a marker of American identity; from our popular culture to our politics, it has provided a soundtrack to our national life. While traditionally associated with the working class, country's appeal is far broader than any other popular music style. While this music rose from the people, it is also a product of the popular music industry, and the way the music has been marketed to its audience is a key part of its story.
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Country Music
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-04-20
- Language: English
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