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The American Songbook
- Music for the Masses
- By: Ann van der Merwe
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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With their unforgettable melodies, timeless messages, and stylistic indebtedness to both jazz and Broadway, American popular standards have proven to be among the most widely performed and enjoyed songs of the past century. Shaped in many ways by the technological and cultural developments of the early twentieth century, they have also managed to transcend these origins and become an enduring part of the American musical landscape.
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The American Songbook
- Music for the Masses
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2017
- Language: English
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Born in the U.S.A.
- The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present
- By: Timothy E. Scheurer
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, Born in the U.S.A. shows the emerging American myth and gives a close reading of the compositions of songwriters as diverse as William Billings, Henry Clay Work, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen.
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Born in the U.S.A.
- The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-04-2017
- Language: English
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Music in the Age of Anxiety
- American Music in the Fifties (Music in American Life)
- By: James Wierzbicki
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Derided for its conformity and consumerism, 1950s America paid a price in anxiety. Prosperity existed under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Optimism wore a Bucky Beaver smile that masked worry over threats at home and abroad. But even dread could not quell the revolutionary changes taking place in virtually every form of mainstream music. Music historian James Wierzbicki sheds light on how the Fifties' pervasive moods affected its sounds.
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Music in the Age of Anxiety
- American Music in the Fifties (Music in American Life)
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2017
- Language: English
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The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000
- A Personal Retrospective
- By: Thomas W. Jacobsen
- Narrated by: David Randall Hunter
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident and longtime jazz aficionado, offers a wide-ranging history of the New Orleans jazz renaissance in the last three decades of the twentieth century, weaving local musical developments into the larger context of the national jazz scene.
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The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000
- A Personal Retrospective
- Narrated by: David Randall Hunter
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2016
- Language: English
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Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee", "John Henry", and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
- By: Richard Polenberg
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts born out of poverty and unbearable working conditions.
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Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee", "John Henry", and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2016
- Language: English
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"I Hear America Singing"
- Folk Music and National Identity
- By: Rachel Clare Donaldson
- Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simpler past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music - from African-American spirituals to English ballads and protest songs - renders the imagined community more tangible and comprises a critical component of our diverse national heritage.
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"I Hear America Singing"
- Folk Music and National Identity
- Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2016
- Language: English
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The Next Elvis
- Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- By: Barbara Barnes Sims
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters: its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary musicians there exists another story, told by Barbara Barnes Sims. In the male-dominated workforce of the 1950s, 24-year-old Sims found herself thriving in the demanding roles of publicist and sales promotion coordinator at Sun Records.
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The Next Elvis
- Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2015
- Language: English
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Prophets of the Hood
- Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Emil Nicholas Gallina
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip-hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip-hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood.
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Prophets of the Hood
- Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
- Narrated by: Emil Nicholas Gallina
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2015
- Language: English
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
- The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
- By: Iain Anderson
- Narrated by: Paul Steven Forrest
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis.
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
- The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
- Narrated by: Paul Steven Forrest
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2012
- Language: English
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Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
- American Made Music
- By: Mark Allan Jackson
- Narrated by: Gregg A. Rizzo
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie examines the cultural and political significance of lyrics by beloved songwriter and activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. The audiobook traces how Guthrie documented the history of America's poor and disadvantaged through lyrics about topics as diverse as the Dust Bowl and the poll tax. Divided into chapters covering specific historical topics such as race relations and lynchings, famous outlaws, and the Great Depression.
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Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
- American Made Music
- Narrated by: Gregg A. Rizzo
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2013
- Language: English
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Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture
- By: Lisa L. Rhodes
- Narrated by: Laura Faye Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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With the explosion of rock music in the mid-1960s, women arrived - as performers, critics, and fans. While operating in radically different ways within rock culture, female musicians, journalists, and groupies rewrote women's roles on and off the stage in the 1960s and 1970s. Electric Ladyland is a social and cultural history of this formative era in rock and roll, examining how the changing roles of women were intertwined with the evolution of the music.
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Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture
- Narrated by: Laura Faye Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2012
- Language: English
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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
- By: Leigh H. Edwards
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Throughout his career, Johnny Cash was depicted - and depicted himself - as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues that Cash embodied irresolvable contradictions of American identity that reflect foundational issues in the American experience.
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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2010
- 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
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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: 16-03-2012
- Language: English
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Ballet
- By: Robin Rinaldi
- Narrated by: Naomi Jacobson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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One of the most formal and demanding genres of dance, ballet has enthralled audiences with its grace, precision, and remarkable feats of dexterity. Its early roots can be traced back to the 16th century, when court dances were performed for Italian and French royalty. After spreading throughout Europe, ballet flourished in 19th-century Russia, the home of some of the world's greatest dancers and choreographers. Once these dancers traveled to America in the 20th century, ballet began to evolve as the style came in contact with the burgeoning modern dance movement.
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Ballet
- Narrated by: Naomi Jacobson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2011
- Language: English
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Elliott Carter (American Composers)
- By: James Wierzbicki
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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This compact introduction to the life and works of composer Elliott Carter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most significant American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A leading voice of the American classical music tradition and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Carter was initially encouraged to become a composer by Charles Ives, and he went on to learn from Walter Piston at Harvard University and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Drawing on Carter's voluminous writings and compositions, James Wierzbicki provides a clear discussion of Carter.
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Elliott Carter (American Composers)
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2012
- Language: English
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Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy
- Musical Meaning and Interpretation
- By: William Echard
- Narrated by: Michael Giorgio
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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As a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, William Echard stages an encounter between Young's challenging and ever-changing work and current theories of musical meaning - an encounter from which both emerge transformed.
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Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy
- Musical Meaning and Interpretation
- Narrated by: Michael Giorgio
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-02-2013
- Language: English
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Avant Rock
- Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork (Feedback, Book 3)
- By: Bill Martin
- Narrated by: John Guccion
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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Critiquing avant-garde rock bands from the 1960s to 2000, Bill Martin examines how social upheaval gave rise to this new form of musical expression. He covers early experimentation by artists such as James Brown; initiation into the mainstream and the resulting adaptations by the Beatles and the Who; and continues into the next era looking at how groups like Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, and others continued to innovate.
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Avant Rock
- Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork (Feedback, Book 3)
- Narrated by: John Guccion
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-11-2023
- 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: 22-08-2023
- Language: English
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Country Boy
- The Roots of Johnny Cash
- By: Colin Edward Woodward
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his Nashville-area mansion, people tend to associate the Man in Black with Tennessee. But some of Cash’s best songs—including classics like “Pickin’ Time,” “Big River,” and “Five Feet High and Rising”—sprang from his youth in the sweltering cotton fields of northeastern Arkansas.
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Country Boy
- The Roots of Johnny Cash
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-10-2022
- Language: English
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Why Jazz Happened
- By: Marc Myers
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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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: 12-05-2023
- Language: English
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