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  • Swooning cover art

    • Swooning

    • A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies
    • Written by: Christopher Lawrence
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lawrence
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release Date: 01-11-15
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • The Indispensable Composers

    • A Personal Guide
    • Written by: Anthony Tommasini
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release Date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....

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    • Great Piano Works Explained

    • Written by: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release Date: 07-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In Great Piano Works Explained, you’ll study masterpieces from a wide selection of the great composers, deepening your skill in hearing and appreciating these timeless creations of the human spirit....

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  • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us cover art

    • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

    • Written by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release Date: 15-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Trips

    • Rock Life in the Sixties - Augmented Edition
    • Written by: Ellen Sander
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release Date: 05-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • As a pioneering rock journalist for Hit Parader, Vogue, Saturday Review, and other publications, Ellen Sander had a backstage pass to the hottest music scenes of the 1960s....

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    • Can You Dig It?

    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • How did hip-hop happen? To understand that, we have to go back to before the ‘birth’ of the culture....
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    • Highways and Heartaches

    • How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music
    • Written by: Michael Streissguth
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release Date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • In this enlightening and entertaining book, experience the evolution of country music, from the 1970s Appalachian hillbilly chitlin' circuit to the 1980s country music boom that paved the way for modern Americana....

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    • Delta Blues

    • The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
    • Written by: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release Date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the 19th century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, Delta Blues tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music....

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    • The Fight for Free Speech

    • Rock Icon Dee Snider Addresses a 1985 Us Senate Hearing on Music Content Labeling
    • Written by: Dee Snider
    • Narrated by: Dee Snider
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release Date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • On September 19, 1985, a US Senate hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all music albums containing alleged offensive material.

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    • Johann Sebastian Bach

    • The Learned Musician
    • Written by: Christoph Wolff
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release Date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
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    • This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music....

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    • Amazing Grace

    • A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
    • Written by: James Walvin
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release Date: 31-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • A fascinating journey through the history of one of the transatlantic world’s most popular hymns....

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    • George Frideric Handel

    • A Life with Friends
    • Written by: Ellen T. Harris
    • Narrated by: Andi Arndt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release Date: 09-10-14
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • The History of Opera

    • Written by: Richard Fawkes
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release Date: 26-12-99
    • Language: English
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    • Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there are as many musical styles as there are composers....

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    • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

    • How the Swampers Changed American Music
    • Written by: Carla Jean Whitley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release Date: 08-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers"....

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