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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- By: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury - contributor
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers who forged a sisterhood, found salvation, and fervently crashed the gates of punk rock during the '90s, accidentally becoming feminist icons along the way. More than that, this is a story about the enduring friendship among the book's three central voices: Theo Kogan, Sydney Silver, and Gina Volpe.
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- By John Williams (Artist) on 31-08-22
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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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'70s Teen Pop
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: Lucretia Tye Jasmine
- Narrated by: Megan Gage
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn’t primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop encompasses several kinds of musical styles, not limiting itself to just one—teen pop wants to play. Although it’s very difficult to attain and maintain social progress and play it forward—there are so many tragedies—'70s Teen Pop examines how liberation and a true counterculture can be possible through music.
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'70s Teen Pop
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Megan Gage
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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The Book of Salsa
- A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
- By: César Miguel Rondón, Frances R. Aparicio - translator, Jackie White - translator
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish.
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The Book of Salsa
- A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-02-14
- Language: English
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The History of the Musical (Unabridged)
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Kim Criswell
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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In this audio-original production, author Richard Fawkes traces the development of the musical, highlighting composers and lyricists including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. Presented by the vivacious singer Kim Criswell, star of Cats, and including nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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Enjoyable and insighful
- By Anonymous User on 25-07-20
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The History of the Musical (Unabridged)
- Narrated by: Kim Criswell
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-12-01
- Language: English
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Excavate!
- The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
- By: Tessa Norton, Bob Stanley
- Narrated by: Dean Williamson, Maxine Peake, Pat Nevin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Over a prolific 40-year career, The Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation. Their front man and lyricist, Mark E Smith, spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; The Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M R James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work.
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Disingenuous
- By Voice of reason on 22-05-21
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Excavate!
- The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
- Narrated by: Dean Williamson, Maxine Peake, Pat Nevin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Here We Are Now
- The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
- By: Charles R. Cross
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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Simply stated, Kurt Cobain changed the cultural conversation in his all-too-brief life, and even after his shattering death. With interviews and commentary from all corners of the pop culture universe, from the people who knew Cobain to those who continue to help his legend grow, Here We Are Now explores what a singular life meant, and how that meaning can be measured, when and if it can be.
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Not a Biography, a Legacy
- By Ms. L. Murphy on 12-11-18
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Here We Are Now
- The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-03-14
- Language: English
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Map of the Soul 7
- Persona, Shadow & Ego in the World of BTS
- By: Murray Stein
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Map of the Soul: 7 is a capstone of a three-album project intended to reveal the inner landscape of the human soul that is packed with rich symbolism and woven together with BTS’s signature sound and moves. Starting with the lyrics, this book launches into a deep, engaging examination of the album in the light of the psychology of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. The many layers of meaning embedded in the number 7 are brought to light, along with several fundamental concepts of Jungian psychology.
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Map of the Soul 7
- Persona, Shadow & Ego in the World of BTS
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-08-20
- Language: English
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
- By: Greil Marcus
- Narrated by: Henry Rollins
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects 10 songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 and then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock 'n' roll as a thing in itself in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out - a new language, something new under the sun.
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
- Narrated by: Henry Rollins
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-01-15
- Language: English
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Perreo, una revolución
- By: Cazzu
- Narrated by: Cazzu
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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Durante años, Cazzu se enfrentó a una pregunta: “¿Cómo se siente tener éxito en un género musical tan machista?”. Y como le ocurre a casi cualquier mujer virtuosa y con notoriedad, le pidieron que diera explicaciones. Pero ¿por qué se lo preguntaban más a ella que a los hombres? Y, sobre todo, ¿es realmente machista el reggaetón? Este libro nació como respuesta y como exploración a esa dualidad que anida en el género: letras que sexualizan a las mujeres, pero también mujeres que expresan su deseo, saben lo que quieren, cómo y cuándo.
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Great and clear writing style. Very good analysis of the musical scene for women.
- By Amazon Customer on 29-06-25
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Perreo, una revolución
- Narrated by: Cazzu
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: Spanish
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George Frideric Handel
- A Life with Friends
- By: Ellen T. Harris
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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An intimate portrait of Handel’s life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer’s favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself - known to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives.
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George Frideric Handel
- A Life with Friends
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-10-14
- Language: English
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Jeff Buckley's Grace
- 33 1/3
- By: Daphne A Brooks
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley's fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the release of the album. With access to rare archival material, Brooks illustrates Buckley's passion for life and hunger for musical knowledge, and shows just why he was such a crucial figure in the American music scene of the 1990s.
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Jeff Buckley's Grace
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't
- The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, the Screaming Trees
- By: Barrett Martin
- Narrated by: Barrett Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle music scene during the heyday of grunge. Except it never happened. It wasn't because the band didn't have great songs—indeed, the Trees were revered for their ability to write a great song that was both artistically original and commercially viable, which is no easy task. Other Seattle bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were fans of the Screaming Trees, playing shows with them and collaborating on albums, long before their own bands broke through into the mainstream.
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The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't
- The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, the Screaming Trees
- Narrated by: Barrett Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-12-23
- Language: English
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Five Straight Lines
- A History of Music
- By: Andrew Gant
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 27 hrs and 12 mins
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This audiobook takes the listener on a grand musical tour from its origins in prehistory to the 21st century. It describes its roles in culture and religion in ancient China and the Middle East and how it developed in the Mediterranean world of classical Greece and Rome. Andrew Gant considers the evolution of music in medieval Europe and looks at what led to the astonishing revolution of musical forms and genres that took place in the Renaissance, first in Italy and then across the rest of Europe.
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Five Straight Lines
- A History of Music
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 27 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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And After All
- A Fan History of Oasis
- By: Melissa Locker
- Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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And After All gives the mic to the fans that launched Oasis to stratospheric fame and takes a deep dive into the band’s formation, history, and reunion. Through the lens of the fans who were there for all the songs, feuds, and incredible shows, journalist Melissa Locker examines the path Oasis charted as they cemented their place in modern rock history.
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And After All
- A Fan History of Oasis
- Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Exploring American Folk Music
- Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
- By: Kip Lornell
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun - and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States. A chapter includes detailed information about the roots of hip hop.
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Exploring American Folk Music
- Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-11-14
- Language: English
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The Tenderness of Silent Minds
- Benjamin Britten and His War Requiem
- By: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Tawnya Rollingson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions.
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The Tenderness of Silent Minds
- Benjamin Britten and His War Requiem
- Narrated by: Tawnya Rollingson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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Life & Works - Franz Schubert
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Tom George, Peter Yapp, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognized master who died almost penniless at the age of 31.
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Schubert realised
- By karen on 01-02-18
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Life & Works - Franz Schubert
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, Tom George, Peter Yapp, Stephen Critchlow, Sean Barrett, Jonathan Keeble, Charlie Simpson
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-11-12
- Language: English
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Hey, Where's My Hairspray...
- My Guide to Hair Metal Bands of the 80’s A Thru M
- By: M.L. Stephens
- Narrated by: Curt Caster
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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This audiobook is not meant to be a band biography; it's a condensed guide of fun facts and information. If you are curious about what happened to that band you heard on the radio the other day, then download this audiobook!
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Pure gold!
- By kayedee on 16-07-25
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Hey, Where's My Hairspray...
- My Guide to Hair Metal Bands of the 80’s A Thru M
- Narrated by: Curt Caster
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- By: Uwe Schütte
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and machine - to change the course of modern music. This is the story of Kraftwerk as a cultural phenomenon, who turned electronic music into avant-garde concept art and created the soundtrack to our digital age.
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Interesting enough if a little dry
- By Stephen George on 19-06-20
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Kraftwerk
- Future Music from Germany
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-02-20
- Language: English
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Can You Dig It?
- By: Pete Chelala, Bryan Master, Julian Voloj
- Narrated by: Chuck D
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How did hip-hop happen? To understand that, we have to go back to before the ‘birth’ of the culture.
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Getting an education
- By Mantha70 on 29-12-23
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