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How Black Music Took Over the World
- By: Melvin Gibbs
- Narrated by: Shamaan Casey
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Bloomsbury presents How Black Music Took Over the World by Melvin Briggs, read by Shamaan Casey Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone move us the way they do? What drives the soulful notes of the Delta blues? What makes Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter inescapably great?...
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How Black Music Took Over the World
- Narrated by: Shamaan Casey
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Escaping Babylon
- An Intimate History of Black British Music
- By: Jesse Bernard
- Narrated by: Jordan Peters
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Shapeshifting, collaborative, endlessly inventive and robustly empowering: Black music has transformed British culture and society, and gifted generations of Black Britons a powerful means to reject misrepresentation and find freedom and joy in sound. From the height of jungle and hip-hop in the...
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Escaping Babylon
- An Intimate History of Black British Music
- Narrated by: Jordan Peters
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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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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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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Black Music
- By: LeRoi Jones
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.
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Black Music
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-11-14
- Language: English
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More Fun in the New World
- The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
- By: John Doe, Tom Desavia
- Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia, Various
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk...
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More Fun in the New World
- The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
- Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia, Various
- Series: Under the Big Black Sun, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Audio Snaps Volume Two
- The First Six Chapters of His Book Black Vinyl White Powder
- By: Simon Napier-Bell
- Narrated by: Simon Napier-Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Abridged
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Audio Snaps is a series of 100-minute audio books, each featuring a dozen or so stories from each of my five books. Black Vinyl White Powder is a bit different from the other books in that it was written as a continuous narrative moving through story after story.
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Audio Snaps Volume Two
- The First Six Chapters of His Book Black Vinyl White Powder
- Narrated by: Simon Napier-Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-05-25
- Language: English
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- By: Natasha Lasky
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it spelled the end for Britney Spears’ career.
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Little Richard's Witness
- Liner Notes on Black Religion and Sexuality
- By: Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs
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An intimate view into the life of Little Richard, the trailblazing artist who helped create rock 'n' roll out of the Black church traditions of the Jim Crow South—a rousing elegy for the Black church boy who harnessed his queerness to become one of the world’s great performers, even as he...
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Little Richard's Witness
- Liner Notes on Black Religion and Sexuality
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 23-02-27
- Language: English
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Good Booty
- Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
- By: Ann Powers
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race. In...
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Good Booty
- Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-08-17
- Language: English
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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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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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In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
- American Made Music Series
- By: Mike Smith
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Smith tells the joyful story of the musicians, the radio DJs, the record labels, and the live venues where jazz not only survived but thrived in the 1960s. In an era marked by turmoil and struggle, popular jazz offered a powerful outlet for joy, resilience, pride, and triumph.
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In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 23-06-25
- 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: 23-08-12
- Language: English
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Spray Paint the Walls
- The Story of Black Flag
- By: Stevie Chick
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Formed in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1978, for eight brutal years Black Flag made and played brilliant, ugly, no-holds-barred music on a self-appointed touring circuit of America’s clubs, squats, and community halls. They fought with everybody: the police, the record industry, and even their own fans. They toured overseas on pennies a day and did it in beat-up trucks and vans. Spray Paint the Walls tells Black Flag’s story from the inside, drawing on exclusive interviews with the group’s members, their contemporaries, and the bands they inspired.
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Spray Paint the Walls
- The Story of Black Flag
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 12-09-22
- Language: English
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Rooted: How Black and Brown People Created Classical Music
- By: Vincent Sneed
- Narrated by: DeeDee Ash
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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This highly captivating audiobook takes listeners on a journey through the history of classical music. However, author and music educator Vincent Sneed demonstrates that this history does not begin in Europe, but instead, the origins of classical music reside in places such as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Sneed details how the music of composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven would never have existed if it had not been the ingenuity and innovation of black and brown people.
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Rooted: How Black and Brown People Created Classical Music
- Narrated by: DeeDee Ash
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-02-26
- Language: English
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How Black Music Took Over the World
- By: Melvin Gibbs
- Narrated by: Shamaan Casey
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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One of the world’s greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world’s most popular form. “An insightful, revelatory, and informative read.” —Meshell Ndegeocello, singer-songwriter...
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How Black Music Took Over the World
- Narrated by: Shamaan Casey
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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Alma Negra Alma Branca [Black Soul White Soul]
- O Verdadeiro Rosto Do Blues [The True Face of Blues]
- By: Patrizia Barrera
- Narrated by: Manuel Caetano
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Uma viagem no mundo antigo do blues: como nasceu, as suas origens, o seu percurso no mundo. E depois muitas histórias e biografias sobre os seus protagonistas, brancos e negros, que contribuíram para criá-lo e para difundi-lo ao grande público.
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Alma Negra Alma Branca [Black Soul White Soul]
- O Verdadeiro Rosto Do Blues [The True Face of Blues]
- Narrated by: Manuel Caetano
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: Portuguese
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
- The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
- By: Daphne A. Brooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
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Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry? Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with the work of their musical peers.
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
- The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-05-22
- Language: English
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A Little Devil in America
- Notes in Praise of Black Performance
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity—from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé ONE...
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A Little Devil in America
- Notes in Praise of Black Performance
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- 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: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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