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A Little History of Music
- By: Robert Philip
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today’s mass-produced songs. This is a truly global story. Looking to Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, Philip reveals how musicians have been brought together by trade and migration and examines the vast impact of colonialism.
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A Little History of Music
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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Vocal Break
- On Women, Music and Power
- By: Lauren Elkin
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding For millennia, women’s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous. Women singing were cast...
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Vocal Break
- On Women, Music and Power
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-05-26
- Language: English
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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there. Taking the form of an “oral” history, this books contains more than 130 interviews, along with essential background information from acclaimed music writer Greg Prato.
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Unlistenable
- By Dave Taste on 28-06-22
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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-11-21
- Language: English
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- By: John Eliot Gardiner
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it.
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Great book .... terrible narration!
- By Rod288 on 02-04-16
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-09-14
- Language: English
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Silhouettes And Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- By: Adam Steiner
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie’s career. Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful...
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Silhouettes And Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)
- By: Paul Morley
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Paul Morley, Roger May
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents A Sound Mind by Paul Morley, read by Paul Morley, Roger May and Olivia Dowd. An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (pun intended)' Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together...
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..he fell in love with late 20th C Classical Music
- By Bob Knowles on 30-11-20
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A Sound Mind
- How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Paul Morley, Roger May
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Camp!
- The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
- By: Paul Baker
- Narrated by: Paul Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR 'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times 'The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a cover for a toilet roll, a tantrum over wire coat hangers, a 1950s muscle magazine...
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A sashay through history
- By Emma Dermott on 01-07-23
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Camp!
- The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
- Narrated by: Paul Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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BOWIELAND
- Walking In The Footsteps Of David
- By: Peter Carpenter
- Narrated by: Peter Carpenter
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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'Fabulous... What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of London Orbital 'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance" STUART MACONIE 'Bowieland will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage...
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One for serious fans and Bromley boys - like me!
- By veyza on 23-04-25
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BOWIELAND
- Walking In The Footsteps Of David
- Narrated by: Peter Carpenter
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-03-25
- Language: English
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Hip Hop America
- By: Nelson George
- Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between Black youth culture and the mass media.
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Hip Hop America
- Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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All Things Must Pass Away
- Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs
- By: Kenneth Womack, Jason Kruppa
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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George Harrison and Eric Clapton shared a legendary and tumultuous friendship that shaped not only their respective lives and careers, but the shifting face of rock itself in the early 1970s. All Things Must Pass Away traces that friendship from its earliest roots in 1964, when Beatles-averse blues-rocker Eric met George backstage at the Hammersmith Odeon, through the messy trials of Clapton's affair with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, to the turn of the century, as the two elder statesmen of rock traded honors during Harrison's final days.
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Interesting, but limited in scope
- By Kindle Customer on 11-07-23
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All Things Must Pass Away
- Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- By: Hugo Wilcken
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers. "Impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating." —The New York Times Although...
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Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne
- How Metal Teaches Us to Live
- By: Keith Kahn-Harris
- Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us. What is a ‘good death’? How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious...
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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne
- How Metal Teaches Us to Live
- Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Time's Echo
- The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
- By: Jeremy Eichler
- Narrated by: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich - lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving works of music.
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A a beautifully written and moving book.
- By Elizabeth on 02-11-23
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Time's Echo
- The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
- Narrated by: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-09-23
- Language: English
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The Story of Grunge
- By: Michael Stewart Foley, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael Stewart Foley
- Length: 3 hrs
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You can’t truly understand the last decade of the 20th century without a look at the muddy, electrifying rock music that would come to define it: grunge. For such a short-lived genre—at least in the mainstream—grunge had a lasting impact on American music and culture. It also provides a unique lens through which to examine the post-Reagan, pre-internet America of the 1990s. In the six lectures of The Story of Grunge, you’ll explore the rise and evolution of the genre, tracing it from Seattle subculture to MTV and the Billboard charts, all the way to its decline and evolution into new forms.
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Really interesting and informative
- By Bronwen Ritchie on 20-01-26
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The Story of Grunge
- Narrated by: Michael Stewart Foley
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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Poetic and Personal in the greatest way ever
- By Spike Solo Aitchison on 27-12-24
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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The Way It Was
- My Life with Frank Sinatra
- By: Eliot Weisman
- Narrated by: David Aston Reese
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman. By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular music and pop culture for forty years, who had risen to the...
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Fascinating insight and entertaining
- By Ben E. on 06-12-20
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The Way It Was
- My Life with Frank Sinatra
- Narrated by: David Aston Reese
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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Inner City Pressure
- The Story of Grime
- By: Dan Hancox
- Narrated by: Ash Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is currently playing Hamilton in the West End production...
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So good. Full of throwbacks and insight
- By Amazon Customer on 05-12-21
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Inner City Pressure
- The Story of Grime
- Narrated by: Ash Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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Opera Wars
- Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
- By: Caitlin Vincent
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Blunt, irreverent, and at times delightfully subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera’s colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future—a “colorful, witty look behind the velvet curtain”...
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Opera Wars
- Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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40-Foot Lemon
- The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart
- By: Geoff Harkness
- Narrated by: Geoff Harkness
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart takes listeners into the studio and onto the stage during U2’s most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of Pop, where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents, striving to create a masterpiece. Instead, with tour dates already booked, U2 handed in an unfinished album.
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Great read, well researched and entertaining.
- By Gary O'Farrell on 14-08-24
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40-Foot Lemon
- The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart
- Narrated by: Geoff Harkness
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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