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There Goes Gravity
- A Life in Rock and Roll
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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From a legendary journalist with four decades of unprecedented access and untold stories, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed everyone from John Lennon to Bono to Patti Smith, Eminem to Lady Gaga to Jay-Z and Kanye West...
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There Goes Gravity
- A Life in Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-04-14
- Language: English
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
- 33 1/3
- By: Leah Kardos
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting, production and sound design.
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AI voice?
- By MR N G CUBLEY on 13-11-25
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- 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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Excellent
- By Mr. Tge White on 17-07-23
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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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Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy,Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales of the imagination, Highways and Byways is a collection of stories taking readers on an...
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Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-04-25
- Language: English
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Well of Souls
- Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
- By: Kristina R. Gaddy, Rhiannon Giddens - foreword
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood.Preview -
Well of Souls
- Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
- By: Karen Tongson
- Narrated by: Karen Tongson
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy - the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age 32 from the effects of an eating disorder.
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Fantastic
- By Richard Wyatt on 12-11-20
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
- Narrated by: Karen Tongson
- Series: Music Matters
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- Language: English
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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- By: Josh Baron, Dean Budnick
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more - and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox - Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.
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Ticket Masters
- The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-01-13
- Language: English
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Mozart in the Jungle
- Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
- By: Blair Tindall
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In a book that inspired the Amazon original series starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Malcolm McDowell, oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician, from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, trading sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city.
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Pronounce Classical terms Correctly!
- By Brooke Michelle Bowers on 26-03-24
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Mozart in the Jungle
- Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 31-03-15
- Language: English
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I Thought I Heard You Speak
- Women at Factory Records
- By: Audrey Golden
- Narrated by: Audrey Golden, Ebony Jonelle, Jessica Joslin
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance. Told entirely in their voices, I Thought I Heard You Speak is an oral history that reveals the true cultural reach of the label and its staying power in the twenty-first century.
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Setting the record strait
- By Mrs Vivienne Wilson on 25-06-23
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I Thought I Heard You Speak
- Women at Factory Records
- Narrated by: Audrey Golden, Ebony Jonelle, Jessica Joslin
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall
- 33 1/3
- By: Stephen Catanzarite
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplored depths, arguing that it's a concept album about love and the fall of man.
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U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
- American Made Music Series
- By: Richard J. Ripani
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called "doo-wop", "soul", "funk", "urban contemporary", or "hip-hop", R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes all of these styles and genres. It is in fact a modern-day incarnation of a musical tradition that stretches back to 19th-century America, and even further to African beginnings.
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Soul Analysis
- By Danny on 24-12-12
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The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-12-12
- Language: English
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Trip-Hop
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: R.J. Wheaton
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Trip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums. But the music at its best still sounds experimental and dramatic; and its influence lingers through artists like FKA twigs, Sevdaliza, James Blake, Billie Eilish, and Lana Del Rey. This short book is a guide to ’trip-hop’ in its context of the weird 1990s.
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Trip-Hop
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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J Dilla's Donuts
- 33 1/3
- By: Jordan Ferguson
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next.
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J Dilla's Donuts
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Then Sings My Soul
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- By: Robert J. Morgan
- Narrated by: Steven Grimsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Over one million copies sold! Have you ever wanted to learn more about hymns, but weren’t sure where to start? Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan shares the incredible stories behind the beloved traditional hymns of faith. Each week millions of Christians around the world use hymns composed...
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Then Sings My Soul
- 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories
- Narrated by: Steven Grimsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Linthead Stomp
- The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
- By: Patrick Huber
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers.
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Linthead Stomp
- The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
- Narrated by: Dick Terhune
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-02-14
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- By: Mary Valle
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Eight years after its founding in Basildon, Essex, Depeche Mode, rooted in 1970s Krautrock, combined old-fashioned touring, well-crafted songs, and the steadfast support of KROQ to dominate Southern California, the United States, and then the world, kicking open the doors for the likes of Nirvana in the process. 101 is the hidden-in-plain-sight hinge of modern music history.
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska (Expanded 2nd Edition)
- By: Aaron Carnes
- Narrated by: Aaron Carnes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In Defense of Ska podcast creator/host Aaron Carnes presents the case that ska never died, by jumping headfirst into ska's "lost years," i.e., the period after the 90s third-wave ska boom.
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In Defense of Ska (Expanded 2nd Edition)
- Narrated by: Aaron Carnes
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-01-25
- Language: English
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Schubert
- A Musical Wayfarer
- By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one.
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Schubert
- A Musical Wayfarer
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
- By: Ben Wynne
- Narrated by: Kurt von Schmittou
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the 19th century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists - one white, one black - who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music.
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Shows the shared roots of blues and country music.
- By Hoops on 29-07-18
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
- Narrated by: Kurt von Schmittou
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-06-17
- Language: English
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