Showing results by publisher "Recorded Books" in History & Criticism
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Music Is History
- By: Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Questlove
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past 50 years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song’s significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and identity.
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Music Is History
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-10-2021
- Language: English
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Psalms of My People
- A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-Hop
- By: Lenny Duncan
- Narrated by: Lenny Duncan
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you must understand hip-hop, and Psalms of My People is your guide. Treating hip-hop like sacred scripture, lenny duncan traces its history—the artists, their lyrics, and the cultural context—to reveal its role as a conduit to tell the modern story of Black liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights Era through the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of america.
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Psalms of My People
- A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-Hop
- Narrated by: Lenny Duncan
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2024
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace
- A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
- By: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, “Amazing Grace” has become an unparalleled anthem for humankind. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway in all corners of the modern world? With this short, engaging cultural history, James Walvin offers an explanation.
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Amazing Grace
- A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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