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The History of the Musical (Unabridged)
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Kim Criswell
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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In this audio-original production, author Richard Fawkes traces the development of the musical, highlighting composers and lyricists including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. Presented by the vivacious singer Kim Criswell, star of Cats, and including nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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Enjoyable and insighful
- By Anonymous on 25-07-20
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The History of the Musical (Unabridged)
- Narrated by: Kim Criswell
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-12-01
- Language: English
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Rock*
- A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Kaleidoscopic culture critic Chuck Klosterman rewrites the history of reality, built off a question that has never been asked or (in all likelihood) even considered: What if Phillip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle was actually about rock music? The Velvet Underground & Nico was released...
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Rock*
- A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 22-09-26
- Language: English
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- By: Susan Shumsky DD
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The spiritual journey of the Beatles is the story of an entire generation of visionaries in the sixties who transformed the world. The Inner Light illumines hidden meanings of the Beatles' India-influenced lyrics and sounds, decoded by Susan Shumsky—a rare insider who spent two decades in the ashrams and six years on the personal staff of the Beatles' mentor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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The Number Ones
- Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
- By: Tom Breihan
- Narrated by: Ray Stoney
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, “The Number Ones”—a space in which he has been writing about every...
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The Number Ones
- Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
- Narrated by: Ray Stoney
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
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- By: Leah Kardos
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting, production and sound design.
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AI voice?
- By MR N G CUBLEY on 13-11-25
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Basketball Culture
- By: Philipp Dembowski
- Narrated by: Alex Wolf
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Dieses außergewöhnliche Buch erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte des Basketballsports von James Naismith über Dr. J bis LeBron James und Dirk Nowitzki. Vielmehr verknüpft Autor Philipp „Dembo" Dembowski die sportliche Entwicklung mit der kulturgeschichtlichen – vom Kampf der afroamerikanischen Spieler in den USA für mehr Gleichberechtigung, über die Herkunft lässiger Baller-Outfits, fette Rhymes und Hip-Hop-Beats bis hin zur Frage, welches Basketballschuhdesign das beste aller Zeiten ist. Ein Buch, das kracht wie ein Slam Dunk von Michael Jordan oder ein Alley-Oop von Shaquille O'Neal.
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Basketball Culture
- Narrated by: Alex Wolf
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-06-26
- Language: German
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Duran Duran's Rio
- 33 1/3
- By: Annie Zaleski
- Narrated by: Susan Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound—influences include danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock—the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track.
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Duran Duran's Rio
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Susan Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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MTV Ruled the World
- The Early Years of Music Video
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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There have been few times in modern music history that an instant shift in how we listen to - and view - music has occurred. However, the launch of MTV on August 1, 1981, was certainly one such occurrence. Instantly, music fans were now “listening with their eyes” rather than relying solely on their ears.
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MTV Ruled the World
- The Early Years of Music Video
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 23 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 20-01-21
- Language: English
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The Sound of Freedom
- Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
- By: Raymond Arsenault
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial - an early milestone in civil rights history - on the 70th anniversary of her performance. On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington - an electrifying moment and an underappreciated milestone in civil rights history.
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The Sound of Freedom
- Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-03-13
- Language: English
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
- American Made Music Series
- By: Clarence Bernard Henry
- Narrated by: Charles Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy of Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of American, African American, popular, and world music traditions.
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Nothing. Rubbish cut by different people.
- By Mrs. S. J. Hill on 03-03-25
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Charles Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-11-19
- Language: English
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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life
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- By: Zeth Lundy
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood; Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.
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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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Alternative for the Masses
- The '90s Alt-Rock Revolution - An Oral History
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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No period in the history of rock music offered such an abrupt shift in prevailing tastes as the 1990s. While just a short while before, radio and MTV were clamoring for hair metal bands, suddenly alt-rockers such as Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Primus, Smashing Pumpkins, and of course, Nirvana, brought a sea change not just in what the most popular bands sounded like, but also in fashion, politics, and seemingly all aspects of pop culture.
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A mediocre collection of quotes
- By BillyBrown on 29-05-26
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Alternative for the Masses
- The '90s Alt-Rock Revolution - An Oral History
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Good Old Grateful Dead
- By: Michael Lydon
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Suddenly the music is not notes or a tune, but what those seven people are exactly: the music is an aural holograph of the Grateful Dead. All their fibers, nuances, histories, desires, beings are clear. Jerry and his questing, Phil the loyal comrade, Tom drifting beside them both on a cloud, Pig staying stubbornly down to earth; Mickey working out furious complexities trying to understand how Bill is so simple, and Bob succumbing inevitably to Jerry and Phil and joining them.
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Don't Waste Your Time with This
- By Dj Pike on 17-02-19
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Good Old Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-12-16
- Language: English
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- By: David McCleery
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world's best-loved composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. Discover: Music of the Romantic Era charts the course of music through those turbulent but exhilarating times with 40 music excerpts. Light-hearted but authoritative, it tells the fascinating, often scandalous life stories of the 19th century's greatest composers and describes how they created musical history.
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Lovey!
- By Anonymous on 05-12-25
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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-03-09
- Language: English
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How Women Made Music
- A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
- By: National Public Radio Inc, Alison Fensterstock
- Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers, Janina Edwards, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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2025 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS AWARDS CERTIFICATE OF MERIT * AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE EARPHONES AWARD The audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone...
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How Women Made Music
- A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
- Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers, Janina Edwards, Hillary Huber, Maggi-Meg Reed, Chanté McCormick, Inés del Castillo
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Modernism: The Strange Story of Art and Music in the Twentieth Century
- By: Max Ridgway
- Narrated by: David Wright
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The 20th century witnessed an explosion of creativity as artists, musicians, and writers rejected centuries of past practice and boldly created new visual forms, new musical languages, and new ways of thinking. This is the story of the individuals who created the art, told within the context of the times in which they lived.
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Nice explanation of Modernism and easy to listen to
- By Anonymous on 22-07-25
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Modernism: The Strange Story of Art and Music in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: David Wright
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-01-19
- Language: English
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Whistling in the Dark
- In Pursuit of the Nightingale
- By: Richard Mabey
- Narrated by: David Vickery, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Eminent and highly respected nature writer Richard Mabey regards Whistling in the Dark as one of his Top Ten most significant books. After being exceptionally well-received on publication, it remains the only title from his collection that is no longer in print, and the timing feels perfect to...
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Emotional last chapters
- By Julieb on 26-06-25
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Whistling in the Dark
- In Pursuit of the Nightingale
- Narrated by: David Vickery, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
- 33 1/3
- By: Cyrus R.K. Patell
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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It’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street.
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The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-05-25
- Language: English
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Verdad tropical
- By: Caetano Veloso, Violeta Weinshelbaum - translator
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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"Más de veinte años después de la publicación de Verdad tropical –autobiografía del genial Caetano Veloso y precioso testimonio sobre el tropicalismo y la contracultura de la segunda mitad del siglo XX–, Marea presenta una nueva edición revisada y con un prólogo escrito especialmente...
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Verdad tropical
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- 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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Interesting but old and not in-depth enough to make a convincing case
- By Arttu on 08-06-25
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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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