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How Music Works
- The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
- By: John Powell
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Have you ever wondered how off-key you are while singing in the shower? Or if your Bob Dylan albums really sound better on vinyl? Or why certain songs make you cry? Now, scientist and musician John Powell invites you on an entertaining journey through the world of music. Discover what distinguishes music from plain old noise, how scales help you memorize songs, what the humble recorder teaches you about timbre (assuming your suffering listeners don’t break it first), and more.
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Music is my business
- By M. Russell on 24-03-11
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How Music Works
- The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-12-10
- Language: English
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The History of Opera
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Here is the colorful story of sometimes temperamental composers and even more temperamental singers working in an art form which has produced some of man's noblest artistic creations. This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples by Naxos artists as well as some of the greatest singers of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso and Fyodor Chaliapin.
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Very enjoyable read
- By Flaminia on 06-11-12
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The History of Opera
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-12-99
- Language: English
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Can't Buy Me Love
- By: Jonathan Gould
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
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Nearly 20 years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. Here Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise.
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Decent Book, awful reader
- By Susie Rainbird on 23-09-14
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Can't Buy Me Love
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-04-13
- Language: English
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Where We Come From
- Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
- By: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Narrated by: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to paint a compelling portrait of the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the current realities of these linked communities and the music they produce. These sounds have become vessels for the marginalised, carrying Black and working-class stories into the light.
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A beautiful listen 🫶
- By Anonymous User on 03-02-24
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Where We Come From
- Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- 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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1966
- The Year the Decade Exploded
- By: Jon Savage
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
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In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient pop moment burst forth. Exploring the canonical figures, from The Beatles and Boty to Warhol and Reagan, 1966 delves deep into the social and cultural heart of the decade through masterfully compiled archival primary sources.
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The appalling narration distracts too much from the book content
- By NEIL BIRCH on 09-01-24
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1966
- The Year the Decade Exploded
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-07-21
- Language: English
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Music
- A Subversive History
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval.
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informative
- By Ruta Kasinskaite on 16-04-20
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Music
- A Subversive History
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- 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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Modernism: The Strange Story of Art and Music in the Twentieth Century
- By: Max Ridgway
- Narrated by: David Wright
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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The 20th century witnessed an explosion of creativity as artists, musicians, and writers rejected centuries of past practice and boldly created new visual forms, new musical languages, and new ways of thinking. This is the story of the individuals who created the art, told within the context of the times in which they lived.
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Good solid overview but......
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-23
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Modernism: The Strange Story of Art and Music in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: David Wright
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-01-19
- Language: English
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester, The Warehouse Project, Parklife, Sankeys, The Haçienda
- By: Sacha Lord
- Narrated by: Sacha Lord
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Sacha Lord's journey is interwoven with the history and culture of the city of Manchester. Listeners will discover Manchester’s vibrant music scene(s) and the challenges it has faced over the decades. The book takes the listener behind the scenes of Sacha's groundbreaking events, including his early nights at the legendary Haçienda club, the establishment of Warehouse Project and Parklife. Sacha's never-told stories are fascinating and entertaining, covering a three-decade structure through 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
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Brought back lots of memories
- By bern on 11-08-24
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester, The Warehouse Project, Parklife, Sankeys, The Haçienda
- Narrated by: Sacha Lord
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- By: Harry Sword
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.
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Underground, Overground, wandering feedback....
- By Bewarethetoon on 01-04-21
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Too Late to Stop Now
- More Rock’n'Roll War Stories
- By: Allan Jones
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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In more than 40 stories from the glory days of rock’n’roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash, Allan Jones remembers a world that once was – one of dark excess and excitement, outrageous deeds and extraordinary talent, featuring legends at both the beginnings and ends of their careers.
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great stories from the world of music
- By jason walker on 30-04-24
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Too Late to Stop Now
- More Rock’n'Roll War Stories
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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The History of Classical Music
- By: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.
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Very pleasant way to read a book !
- By Kindle Customer on 23-12-12
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The History of Classical Music
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-07-00
- Language: English
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Sound Within Sound
- Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
- By: Kate Molleson
- Narrated by: Kate Molleson
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth century. Traversing the globe from Ethiopia and the Philippines to Mexico, Jerusalem, Russia and beyond, journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson tells the stories of ten figures who altered the course of musical history, only to be side-lined and denied recognition during an era that systemically favoured certain sounds—and people—over others.
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Opened my ears to a whole new world
- By Simon on 05-10-23
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Sound Within Sound
- Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Kate Molleson
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-08-22
- Language: English
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - symphonies, concertos and operatic scores - that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated as masterpieces today. The audiobook introduces the key influences, themes and working methods of each individual, setting their works within a wider historical and cultural context.
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Composers
- Their Lives and Works
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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Seven Deadly Sins
- By: Corey Taylor
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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"I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so. 1995 was a full 365-day year of drinking, fucking, lying, raging and exploration for me - not a dull one in the bunch. It was a time of self-shit: self-importance, self-absorption, self-indulgence and selfishness. I was the only person in the known galaxy and I wanted what the fuck I wanted sooner rather than later." The action begins in Iowa, where Corey Taylor committs each of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Great stuff
- By paul on 27-07-15
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Seven Deadly Sins
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-10-11
- 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: Paul Morley
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
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Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself retreating into the sounds of artists he loved when, as an emerging music journalist in the '70s, he wrote for NME. But not wishing to give in to dreary nostalgia, endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare and wondrous - and found it in classical music.
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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: Paul Morley
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
- By: Simon Reynolds
- Narrated by: Liam Wheatley
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
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In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written.
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Very informative
- By dogstarman on 05-07-24
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Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
- Narrated by: Liam Wheatley
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- By: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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Kelefa Sanneh has made a deep study of how our popular music unites and divides us, the tribes it forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges, as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration.
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Excellent Take On How We Describe Music
- By Mr. Findlay J. Napier on 23-11-21
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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Medical Grade Music
- By: Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music. Steve Davis first met Kavus Torabi - guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld - in the mid-2000s at a gig by French underground rock legends Magma. Over the next few years, this unlikely duo's shared affinity for visionary psychedelic music would become the foundation of not only a firm friendship, but also the most infectiously inclusive broadcasting style since the much-mourned death of John Peel.
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This is a joyous book - wonderful musical memories and a stackful of new music recommendations ...
- By Zzorchering on 16-04-21
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Medical Grade Music
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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