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Black Metal Rainbows
- By: Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world's imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder.
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Black Metal Rainbows
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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Why Jazz Happened
- By: Marc Myers
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more.
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Why Jazz Happened
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-05-23
- Language: English
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Turn It Up!
- My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music
- By: Tom Werman
- Narrated by: Tom Werman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick; he also discovered KISS, Rush, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but his record label passed on all of them. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more. All in all, his record-making resume includes twenty-three gold- or platinum-selling albums and cumulative sales of more than fifty-two million copies.
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Tommy Werman
- By Ray Bateman on 16-09-24
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Turn It Up!
- My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music
- Narrated by: Tom Werman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Anatomy of 55 More Songs
- The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
- By: Marc Myers
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more—iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More Songs, based on his column for the Wall Street Journal, music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them.
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Anatomy of 55 More Songs
- The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-12-22
- Language: English
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FM
- The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
- By: Richard Neer
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York - one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he’d have made the big time. Little did he know he’d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement’s flagship stations.
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A Compelling listen for all radio fans
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-24
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FM
- The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-02-14
- Language: English
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- By: Anthony Tommasini
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he...
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The Indispensable Composers
- A Personal Guide
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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British Invasion
- The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
- By: Simon Philo
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964, only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for 60% of all recorded music sold in the United States; in 1964 and 1965 British acts occupied the number one position for 52 of the 104 weeks; and from 1964 through to 1970, the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, and more placed more than 130 songs on the American Top Forty.
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British Invasion
- The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-06-17
- Language: English
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Pop-Splits
- By: N.N.
- Narrated by: Michael Pan
- Length: 1 min
- Abridged
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Dieser Pop-Split stellt den Titel Bitter Sweet Symphony vor und erklärt, weshalb man von seiner eigenen kreativen Leistung am Ende oft nichts hat...
Der Titel ist Teil des Pop-Splits "Rock Bizz - 21 Geschichten zu Geld und Ruhm".
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Pop-Splits
- Narrated by: Michael Pan
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 05-09-06
- Language: German
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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
- By: Jeffrey Boakye
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Hold Tight is the book that kick-started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017 to rave reviews and a sold-out event at Rough Trade East, Hold Tight paved the way for Grime-related books such as Wiley's Eskiboy, Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure and DJ Target’s Grime Kids. Celebrating more than 60 key songs that make up Grime’s DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK.
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Excellent
- By Mr. Tge White on 17-07-23
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Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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Black and Blur
- Consent Not to Be a Single Being, Book 1
- By: Fred Moten
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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In Black and Blur - the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy Consent Not to Be a Single Being - Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of Blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms.
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Black and Blur
- Consent Not to Be a Single Being, Book 1
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-02-22
- Language: English
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70s Teen Pop
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: Lucretia Tye Jasmine
- Narrated by: Megan Gage
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Bloomsbury presents '70s Teen Pop by Lucretia Tye Jasmine, read by Megan Gage. Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn’t...
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70s Teen Pop
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Megan Gage
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- By: Alex Ross
- Narrated by: Alex Ross
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
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This program is read by the author, and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals...
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Experienced
- On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond
- By: Eric Barrett, Lawrence Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Calley
- Length: 8 hrs
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Jimi Hendrix's road manager and confidant Eric Barrett breaks fifty-five years of silence As Jimi Hendrix's road manager, Eric Barrett was there when the amps blew in Milan, when Hendrix set Woodstock ablaze, when paranoia crackled through the Toronto airport, when his music electrified a sea of...
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Experienced
- On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond
- Narrated by: Dan Calley
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 04-08-26
- Language: English
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Mozart & Beethoven: The Lives and Legacies of History's Most Famous Composers
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Guy Veryzer
- Length: 4 hrs
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This audiobook analyzes the themes and progression of the composers' most famous works, comparing and contrasting them to each other and other composers' great works.
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Struggled to finish this.
- By Ivy’s40 on 20-05-16
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Mozart & Beethoven: The Lives and Legacies of History's Most Famous Composers
- Narrated by: Guy Veryzer
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 28-08-15
- 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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Plunderphonics
- By: Matthew Blackwell
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Plunderphonics by Matthew Blackwell, read by Sam Rushton. Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illegality a point of...
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Plunderphonics
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Listening to the Future
- The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978
- By: Bill Martin
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Since the late '70s, histories of rock music have either ignored or marginalized the progressive rock era. In part, this has occurred because rock music criticism has taken an almost completely sociological turn, with little or no interest in musical form itself. In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin argues that it is a musical and political mistake to ignore this period of tremendous creativity, a period that still finds resonance in rock music today.
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Listening to the Future
- The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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Cause & Effect: Turbo
- By: Chris Akin
- Narrated by: Chris Akin
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Since 1974, Judas Priest has established themselves as one of the go-to bands in the history of heavy metal. Cause & Effect: Turbo highlights many of the events that were going on within Judas Priest at the time of the controversial Turbo album, as well as many of Akin’s own personal recollections from that period in his life in 1986. In the end, Turbo is an album that has never changed the minds of hardcore fans, but brought in a new group of fans that stayed with them through their most recent works today.
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Cause & Effect: Turbo
- Narrated by: Chris Akin
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-12-18
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names
- How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names
- By: Adam Dolgins
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, this book offers insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it's been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews, including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend.
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names
- How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-11-24
- 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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