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The Vinyl Frontier
- The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
- By: Jonathan Scott
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1977 a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important mixtape ever conceived. It wasn’t from one person to another - it was from Earth to the cosmos. When NASA sent Voyagers 1 and 2 on a grand tour of the outer planets, they knew the ultimate fate of these plucky probes would be to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space.
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The Vinyl Frontier
- The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Kick Out the Jams
- Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing
- By: Dave Marsh
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation. Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh...
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Kick Out the Jams
- Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- By: Susan Shumsky DD
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The spiritual journey of the Beatles is the story of an entire generation of visionaries in the sixties who transformed the world. The Inner Light illumines hidden meanings of the Beatles' India-influenced lyrics and sounds, decoded by Susan Shumsky—a rare insider who spent two decades in the ashrams and six years on the personal staff of the Beatles' mentor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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The Inner Light
- How India Influenced the Beatles
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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The History of Hip Hop Collection
- The Miracle Born in Brooklyn and the Bronx
- By: Eric Reese
- Narrated by: William Butler
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you are a fan of hip-hop, or you are just curious about it, you will not have to look further after finding Eric Reese's The History of Hip Hop. This concise but in-depth audiobook explores all the distinguishing traits of what is not only a genre of music but a lifestyle. Reese traces the history of hip-hop from its beginnings in the 1970s and reveals how it changed in the next decades until it became a worldwide phenomenon. The author gives attention to the influence of hip-hop at every level, including art and fashion.
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The History of Hip Hop Collection
- The Miracle Born in Brooklyn and the Bronx
- Narrated by: William Butler
- Series: The History of Hip Hop, Book 1-3
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-11-21
- Language: English
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So Many Roads
- The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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No longer dismissed as relics of the hippie era, a new generation has lionized the Dead for creating a culture that paved the way for social networking, free music swapping, and the uncompromising anticorporate attitude of indie rock. Now, fifty years after the band first began changing rock 'n' roll both sonically and psychically, So Many Roads paints the most vivid portrait yet of the Grateful Dead, one of the most enduring institutions in American music and culture.
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A Good Starting Point
- By Aaron Searescue on 24-08-16
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So Many Roads
- The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-04-15
- Language: English
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Chasing Chopin
- A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
- By: Annik LaFarge
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still...
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Chasing Chopin
- A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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Plunderphonics
- By: Matthew Blackwell
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Plunderphonics by Matthew Blackwell, read by Sam Rushton. Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illegality a point of...
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Plunderphonics
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Swooning
- A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies
- By: Christopher Lawrence
- Narrated by: Christopher Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A whimsical guide to the conduct of a romance interwoven with the history of classical music, which is, surprisingly, not as nice as you might think.... The history of classical music is littered with murder, sado-masochism, adultery, bigamy, fraud, riches, poverty, nervous breakdowns, bizarre habits, gluttony and terrible, terrible toilet humour (Mozart was the prime exponent of the latter).
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Swooning
- A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies
- Narrated by: Christopher Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 01-11-15
- Language: English
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This Is What It Sounds Like
- What the Music You Love Says About You
- By: Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers
- Narrated by: Susan Rogers
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When you listen to music, do you prefer lyrics or melody? Intricate harmonies or driving rhythm? The “real” sounds of acoustic instruments or those of computerized synthesizers? Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince’s “Purple Rain”), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you. She explains that we each possess a unique “listener profile” based on our brain’s reaction to seven key dimensions of any record: authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm, and timbre.
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This Is What It Sounds Like
- What the Music You Love Says About You
- Narrated by: Susan Rogers
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-09-22
- 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: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Real Ambassadors
- Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
- By: Keith Hatschek
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
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The Real Ambassadors
- Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts
- Historic recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen
- By: Jann S. Wenner
- Narrated by: Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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During fifty years of publishing the “Bible of Rock and Roll,” Jann Wenner recorded a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. From the hubris and pissed-off attitude of Pete Townshend, to the volcano that was John Lennon after the...
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The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts
- Historic recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen
- Narrated by: Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Jerry Garcia, Bono, Bruce Springsteen
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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Mapping Woody Guthrie
- American Popular Music Series, Book 4
- By: Will Kaufman
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction, journalism, poetry, and visual art, that gave voice to the distressed and dispossessed. In this insightful audiobook, Will Kaufman examines the artist’s career through a unique perspective: the role of time and place in Guthrie’s artistic evolution.
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Mapping Woody Guthrie
- American Popular Music Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Series: American Popular Music
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-03-19
- Language: English
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Jacked (Ad-Free)
- By: Wondery | UMG
- Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson
- Original Recording
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Have you ever had a dream? Something you wanted so bad you just couldn’t let it go? For a group of kids in Harlem in the Eighties, their dreams would change pop music forever. Teddy Riley, Timmy Gatling, and Aaron Hall form a group called Guy that would fuse hip-hop and R&B and launch a new sound.
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Math Rock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: Jeff Gomez
- Narrated by: Hunter Johns
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Math Rock by Jeff Gomez, read by Hunter Johns. Math rock sounds like blueprints look: exact, precise, architectural. This trance-like progressive metal music with indie rock and jazz influences has been captivating and challenging listeners for decades. Bands associated with...
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Math Rock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Hunter Johns
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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When Rock Met Disco
- The Story of How The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, KISS, Queen, Blondie and More Got Their Groove On in the Me Decade
- By: Steven Blush
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Rock stars who "went disco" crossed a musical rubicon and forever smashed cultural conformity. The ongoing dance-rock phenomenon demonstrates the impact of this unique place and time. The disco crossover forever changed rock.
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When Rock Met Disco
- The Story of How The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, KISS, Queen, Blondie and More Got Their Groove On in the Me Decade
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music
- 33 1/3, Book 86
- By: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece—edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future.
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music
- 33 1/3, Book 86
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The National's Boxer
- 33 1/3
- By: Ryan Pinkard
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know the Boxer. The fighter who remembers every glove but still remains. That grisly, bruised American allegory who somehow gets up more times than he’s knocked down. This is the fight that nearly broke The National. The one that allowed them to become champions.
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The National's Boxer
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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Ten Masterpieces of Music
- By: Harvey Sachs
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of 10 great works of classical music - works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters - Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky - communicated their life experiences through music, and through music they universalized the intimate.
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Ten Masterpieces of Music
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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A Really Strange and Wonderful Time
- The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999
- By: Tom Maxwell
- Narrated by: Tom Maxwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early...
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A Really Strange and Wonderful Time
- The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999
- Narrated by: Tom Maxwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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