American Entertainment History

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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    • The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
    • By: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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 Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
    • By: Yunte Huang
    • Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon....

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    • An Oral History of the Comedy Club That Revolutionized Stand-Up
    • By: Budd Friedman, Tripp Whetsell, Jay Leno - foreword
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1963, 30-year-old Friedman - who had recently quit a job as a Boston advertising executive and came to New York to become a theatrical producer - opened a coffee house for Broadway performers....

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    • By: Elizabeth Partridge
    • Narrated by: June Angela
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • This important work of nonfiction discusses powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history....

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    • Visionaries of American Theater
    • By: Iris Dorbian
    • Narrated by: Michella Moss
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money....

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    • By: Peter Benjaminson, Greil Macus - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In January 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest Black-owned business in the United States....

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    • An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
    • By: Daniel de Visé
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Blues Brothers hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the film, had a greater mission: to honour the then-seemingly forgotten tradition of rhythm and blues, some of whose greatest artists....

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    • From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
    • By: Soren Baker, Xzibit - foreword
    • Narrated by: James Shippy, Soren Baker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Filled with interviews with key players such as Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, and dozens more, as well as breakout bios of notorious characters, lists, and more, The History of Gangster Rap is the be-all-end-all book that contextualizes the importance of gangster rap as a cultural phenomenon....

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    • The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • By: Stephon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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    • A History
    • By: Jeremy Dauber
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through comics’ progress in the 20th century and beyond....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes....

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    • The Making of an American Movie Studio
    • By: David Thomson
    • Narrated by: David Thomson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early 20th century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity....

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    • The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
    • By: Judith Tick
    • Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
    • Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist....

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    • In Praise of Black Performance
    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • An electrifying celebration of Black performances, cultures and communities in the United States....

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    • The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
    • By: Imani Perry
    • Narrated by: LisaGay Hamilton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements....

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