Showing results by publisher "Audible Originals" in Music

El propio título lo dice: ¡Viva la música, j***r! Que es lo mismo que decir, viva la más incomprendida de las músicas: bien porque se supone que la clásica es demasiado difícil de escuchar, o porque su etiqueta de conciertos resulta demasiado pomposa y encorsetada o, simplemente, porque sus entradas son demasiado caras.

From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts. Nonetheless, they’re consistently shortchanged as artists, creators, renegades, and cultural visionaries in prevailing histories of the genre. The Motherlode changes that.

SHELVED explores the history and drama behind albums that were deemed too controversial, too far from the beaten path, or too ahead of their time for public consumption. Through interviews with musicians, producers, record executives, and journalists, as well as archival audio, key music and personal storytelling, each episode examines the “shelved” album’s place in musical history, and the spectacles behind each missed or nearly missed release.

In a performance that combines the personal and poetic with the literary and the lyrical, Grammy, Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winning artist Common spins something entirely new and bold for both his old-school fans and those new to one of hip-hop’s most essential voices. This is Bluebird Memories, part of Audible's Words + Music that blends storytelling, music, and performance to create a one-of-a-kind listening experience.

On Christmas Eve, 1818, in a small Austrian village, a local Catholic priest and a church organist composed a Christmas carol that changed the course of holiday music forever. Exactly two hundred years later, it’s not the holiday season until you’ve heard “Silent Night” in the car, at the store and on TV – all in the same day.

In Jingle Bell Pop, John Seabrook, acclaimed author of The Song Machine, takes us deep inside the holiday music business. We go behind the scenes to meet some of the producers, songwriters and recording artists responsible for the timeless tunes we hear on repeat between Thanksgiving and Christmas every year.

Ennio Morricone è una leggenda della musica e del cinema. Le sue composizioni hanno accompagnato più di 500 film e sono entrate nel cuore di milioni di spettatori. Ma da dove nasce la sua arte? Il Maestro si apre al microfono del giovane compositore Alessandro De Rosa, suo biografo ed amico. Ci racconta la sua storia, i suoi dubbi e le sue tante conquiste in una conversazione che rappresenta un momento di riflessione personale sulla sua illustre carriera così come sulla sua esperienza di vita e allo stesso tempo un raro e prezioso confronto generazionale.

Created by The Meteor, In Love and Struggle, Vol. 3 brings together a group of visionary Black women and nonbinary people for a series of unforgettable evenings filled with storytelling, music, comedy, and monologues. This year’s theme is inspired by science-fiction writer Octavia Butler and other futurists, featuring an outstanding, eclectic, wildly creative cast.

The Lost Recordings is an audio documentary about Nueva Canción, a musical movement that emerged across Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. The genre became an essential means of artistic expression and social resistance to the many dictatorships and oppressive regimes of the time.

La Cinta Perdida es un documental acerca de la "nueva canción", un movimiento musical que ocurrió durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970 en América Latina como una resistencia artística y social a las muchas dictaduras y regímenes opresivos de la época. Tras obsesionarse con las canciones de protesta que escuchó mientras cubría el estallido social de 2019 en Chile, el periodista Luis Alberto González comienza a investigar más sobre los orígenes y la historia de la música popular latinoamericana.

Ever thought about all the incredible stories hiding in your favorite tracks? Chasing the Sound is the new Audible series from writer, actor and prolific question-asker Kirk Flash, who’s taking listeners all around the globe on a mission to uncover the secrets, misconceptions, and debates buried in some of the world's most iconic music genres.

Based on the Respect magazine essay "The Game Changer" by Sheena Lester Narrated by Sheena Lester.In 1998, XXL Editor-in-Chief Sheena Lester and the magazine's staff set out to create a hip-hop remake of Art Kane’s legendary 1958 Esquire magazine photoshoot known as “A Great Day In Harlem."Kane's image featured 57 of the greatest jazz musicians of the time gathered around the stoop at 17 West 126th Street in Harlem. That image remains one of the greatest moments in jazz music history, and the talented team at XXL was looking to pull off the same for hip-hop at the very same place ...

Before rap music made its way onto the radio, mixtapes reigned as the primary means of distributing the genre.

In 1998, XXL Editor-in-Chief Sheena Lester and the magazine's staff set out to create a hip-hop remake of Art Kane’s legendary 1958 Esquire magazine photoshoot known as “A Great Day In Harlem."

After listening to Punk in Translation, you will never again think of punk as the exclusive territory of white men with mohawks.

Music finds its way into every corner of our world. Whether it's sounds written to soothe our four-legged friends, or a loud, politically charged punk song, music can change the way we feel and often has larger implications than we imagine. In the latest Audible Original series, Pitch, you'll hear an incredible range of stories that illustrate why music is so central in our connections to each other, our history, and how we navigate the culture and the current moment.

Doc Brown hosts a showcase of the best in spoken word, rap and slam featuring poets, musicians, comedians and performers such as Scroobius Pip, Kae Tempest and Murray Lachlan Young among many, many others.

Dying is easy. It’s the Apocalypse that’s hard. Before the outside world devolved into a fiery pit of hell, Noel and Julia hosted a successful and wonderfully pretentious community radio show. Now their basement studio is their survival bunker, and they find themselves completely alone. With no escape and nothing left except an increasingly eclectic selection of questionable records, Noel and Julia proudly debut their new show: Is Anyone Alive Out There?. How could they create a stellar show when they really just need to survive?

Plongez une nouvelle fois dans les coulisses du livre audio et découvrez les plus jolies perles des comédiens et comédiennes. Écoutez les bégaiements, les hésitations, les noms étrangers imprononçables, les gros mots aussi parfois qui sortent tout seul et puis juste les fous rires qui en découlent ! Après des heures passées en cabine à interpréter tous ces personnages, il faut avouer que parfois nos talents pètent un peu les plombs ! L'équipe Audible est heureuse de vous offrir une bien drôle de séance de loupés enregistrés en studio.

Plongez dans les coulisses du livre audio et découvrez la joyeuse troupe de comédiens avec leur petit grain de folie ! Connaissez-vous le Moulin de Wijk bij Duurstede ? Et vous, comment le prononceriez-vous ? L'équipe Audible est heureuse de vous offrir cette séance de loupés enregistrés lors du salon Livre Paris. Merci à Jules (l'ingé son), ainsi qu'à toutes les comédiennes et tous les comédiens qui ont participé à ce making of !

Have your tickets ready. Keep the aisles clear. And prepare yourself for the heavy-duty epic-ness that’s ahead. This is Lighters in the Sky. In this eight-episode Audible Original we’ll dive deep into the most mind-blowing concerts ever performed. And in each engrossing episode, you’ll feel transported to a time and place that changed the landscape of music forever. Listeners will hear from the people who actually lived the legend, and through the power of immersive sound – you may just feel like you were in attendance too.