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: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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Won't Back Down
- Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
- By: Erin Osmon
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Erin Osmon’s rollicking Won’t Back Down tells the story of the origins, chart-topping development, and tangled legacy of Heartland Rock, the music that ruled the airwaves of the 1980s and remains instantly recognizable to millions. Osmon delves into the making of its classic albums and songs, including Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind,” John Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” and Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.”
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Won't Back Down
- Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-04-26
- Language: English
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Songs of Nashville
- The Real Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits
- By: Jake Brown
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking listeners inside the songwriting mecca of Nashville’s Music Row for the real stories behind country’s most influential songs—and featuring exclusive interviews with songwriters like Vince Gill, Clint Black, Buddy Cannon, Jelly Roll, and Taylor Swift co-writer Liz Rose—Songs of Nashville gives you a front-row seat to the lives and work of the artists who’ve shaped country music.
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Songs of Nashville
- The Real Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- 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 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- The Outrageous, Definitive, & Untold History
- By: Craig J. Inciardi
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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The Indiana Jones of rock history and founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum narrates the Hall's wild history and his quest to build its collection from scratch—from Ozzy Osbourne's country manor to Keith Moon’s childhood bedroom and Art Garfunkel’s personal archives—including stories about Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and more.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- The Outrageous, Definitive, & Untold History
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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Wild Thing
- The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
- By: Philip Norman
- Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed for its astounding portrait of Jimi Hendrix, Philip Norman’s Wild Thing has become the definitive biography of rock’s most outrageous—and tragic—genius. Today, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars...
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Wild Thing
- The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
- Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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The Midnight Special
- The Secret Prison History of American Music
- By: Colin Asher
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This innovative history explores the rich tradition of music behind bars, and how prisoners have shaped the American sound from blues to hip-hop. In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But The Midnight Special reveals an untold story about the way...
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The Midnight Special
- The Secret Prison History of American Music
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-06-26
- Language: English
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Freedom's Gate
- Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba,and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub that Shaped the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Soyica Diggs Colbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement. Before they became household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place...
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Freedom's Gate
- Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba,and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub that Shaped the Civil Rights Movement
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-10-26
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Dearly Beloved
- Prince, Spirituality, & This Thing Called Life
- By: Pamela Ayo Yetunde
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life." When Prince spoke those words over celestial organ sounds in the opening moments of "Let's Go Crazy," he wasn't just inaugurating yet another Billboard Hot 100 hit—one of forty-seven in his career; he was also giving voice to the deep-seated and richly complex spiritual underpinning of his art.
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Dearly Beloved
- Prince, Spirituality, & This Thing Called Life
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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