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On the Record
- Music That Changed America
- By: Anna Harwell Celenza
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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In On the Record: Music That Changed America, Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star–Spangled Banner" and Billie Holiday's haunting "Strange Fruit" to Paul Simon's Graceland and Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking Hamilton, Celenza explores moments where music wound its way through the halls of Congress, influencing decisions and reshaping culture.
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On the Record
- Music That Changed America
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 07-04-2026
- Language: English
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Why You Like It
- The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
- By: Nolan Gasser
- Narrated by: Nolan Gasser
- Length: 38 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love. In this sweeping and authoritative audiobook, Dr. Nolan Gasser - a composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radio - breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us.
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Why You Like It
- The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
- Narrated by: Nolan Gasser
- Length: 38 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- 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
- Unabridged
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Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls
- Women, Music and Fame
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This program is read by the author. "Indispensable [reading] about the feminine journey through a man's world" —USA Today An intimate look at the lives of our most celebrated female musicians—and their challenges with fame—from a legendary music journalist Over four decades, Lisa Robinson...
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Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls
- Women, Music and Fame
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2020
- Language: English
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Sympathy for the Drummer
- Why Charlie Watts Matters
- By: Mike Edison
- Narrated by: Mike Edison
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush - capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived - and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house.
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Warrawarrawarra!!!
- By Graham Williams on 18-09-2021
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Sympathy for the Drummer
- Why Charlie Watts Matters
- Narrated by: Mike Edison
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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The Last Great Dream
- How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
- By: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement. Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that...
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The Last Great Dream
- How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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No One to Meet
- Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan
- By: Raphael Falco
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed overnight when Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, challenging us to think of him as an integral part of our national and international literary heritage. No One to Meet places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition.
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No One to Meet
- Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
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Jazz
- An Audio Guide
- By: Stuart Nicholson
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the listener on an entertaining journey from jazz's early stirrings in America’s south through to the present day, when almost every country in the world has its own vibrant jazz scene. En route we meet a host of jazz heroes past and present, from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Miles Davis, to Keith Jarrett and Kamasi Washington. Each chapter is accompanied by a playlist designed to provide a stimulating and enjoyable entry point to what has been described as the most exciting art form of all.
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Jazz
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-01-2024
- Language: English
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This Must Be the Place
- Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City
- By: Jesse Rifkin
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city’s music scenes from folk to house music. Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you’ll likely pass some of the most significant...
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This Must Be the Place
- Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2023
- Language: English
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Histoire du Jazz
- Une musique pour les XXe et XXIe siècles
- By: Laurent Cugny
- Narrated by: Laurent Cugny
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Frémeaux & Associés, label de référence historiographique du jazz avec la Collection Quintessence d'Alain Gerber, édite dans le cadre de la collection "Une histoire expliquée par" avec les Presses Universitaires de France, une histoire du jazz racontée par Laurent Cugny, professeur à la Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université et ancien directeur de l'ONJ (Orchestre national de jazz).
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Histoire du Jazz
- Une musique pour les XXe et XXIe siècles
- Narrated by: Laurent Cugny
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 20-01-2022
- Language: French
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Foreground Music
- A Life in Fifteen Gigs
- By: Graham Duff
- Narrated by: Graham Duff
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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The result of a lifetime's passion for gig-going by one of British television's most respected writers, Foreground Music is at once enthusiastically detailed and tremendously illuminating - of both the concert moment and its place in popular culture. It is an engaging memoir of a life lived to the fullest, and a vivid, insightful, and humorous exploration of what music writing might be. Foreground Music captures the energy and power of life-changing gigs, while tracing the evolution of 40 years of musical movements and subcultures.
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Foreground Music
- A Life in Fifteen Gigs
- Narrated by: Graham Duff
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2019
- Language: English
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
- By: Ben Wynne
- Narrated by: Kurt von Schmittou
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the 19th century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists - one white, one black - who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music.
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An awesome read!
- By Anonymous on 20-01-2020
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
- Narrated by: Kurt von Schmittou
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2017
- 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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Mozart & Beethoven: The Lives and Legacies of History's Most Famous Composers
- Narrated by: Guy Veryzer
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 28-08-2015
- Language: English
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Children of the Stone
- The Power of Music in a Hard Land
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Children of the Stone chronicles Ramzi's journey - from stone thrower to music student to school founder - and shows how through his love of music he created something lasting and beautiful in a land torn by violence and war. This is a story about the power of music, but also about freedom and conflict, determination and vision.
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Children of the Stone
- The Power of Music in a Hard Land
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2015
- 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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FM
- The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2014
- Language: English
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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
- The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution
- By: Leslie Woodhead
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law - recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies, but by the USSR, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion. The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of Soviet youth, opening their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and rigid authoritarianism.
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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
- The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2013
- 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
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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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Discover: Music of the Romantic Era
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2009
- Language: English
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Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues
- By: Stuart L. Goosman
- Narrated by: Armand Hutton
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1948, the Orioles, a Baltimore-based vocal group, recorded "It's Too Soon to Know". Combining the sound of Tin Pan Alley with gospel and blues sensibilities, the Orioles saw their first hit reach #13 on the pop charts, thus introducing the nation to vocal rhythm & blues and paving the way for the most successful groups of the 1950s. In the first scholarly treatment of this influential musical genre, Stuart Goosman chronicles the Orioles' story and that of myriad other black vocal groups in the postwar period.
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Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues
- Narrated by: Armand Hutton
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2012
- Language: English
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Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas
- Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics
- By: Ace Collins
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Much like The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs Of Christmas, The Stories Behind The Great Traditions of Christmas and More Stories Behind The Best Loved Songs of Christmas this new Collins Christmas book will fill a void in the book world. With a look at these secular classics, people who...
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Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas
- Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2010
- Language: English
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Keyboard Conversations®: The Romance of the Piano
- By: Jeffrey Siegel
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Siegel
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers...
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Keyboard Conversations®: The Romance of the Piano
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Siegel
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2006
- Language: English
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