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    Jazz

    A History of America's Music

    Narrated by LeVar Burton ...

    Abridged

    8 hours 59 min

    A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, this companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part PBS TV series is an exploration of the music that celebrates all Americans at their best.Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music: Louis Armstrong, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Disgraceland

    Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

    by Jake Brennan ...
    Narrated by Jake Brennan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    Narrated by David Byrne, Andrew Garman ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 10 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Guitar: Learn To Play Guitar for Beginners

    Narrated by Matt Montanez ...

    Unabridged

    52 min

    All-in-one Guitar Course With a Proven Step-by-step Learning System.Today only, get this audio bestseller for a special price.Would You Like to Eliminate Every Struggle That You Are Faced With When Starting to Play Guitar?This audiobook is your "Free Pass" to playing guitar. It is the most direct and to the point complete audio program guitar course.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn.. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Holding the Note

    Profiles in Popular Music

    by David Remnick ...
    Narrated by David Remnick, Matt Godfrey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing “Respect” or Bob Dylan performing “Blind Willie ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    Learning To Read Guitar Music How and Why

    by Ged Brockie ...
    Narrated by Ged Brockie ...

    Unabridged

    31 min

    Do you play the guitar and wish you could read music? Perhaps you have thought or heard that reading music and playing the guitar is difficult. If so, this audio book is for you.This audio book contains a discussion by professional guitarist of international reputation Ged Brockie on why as a guitarist you should consider learning to read music and the reasons why it will change your musical life. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Kristof Magnusson über Pet Shop Boys (Ungekürzt)

    Narrated by Kristof Magnusson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 33 min

    Go West! Ein autobiografischer Blick auf eine Band, die mühelos und widerspruchsfrei ganz unterschiedliche Gruppen von Fans miteinander vereint: von Intellektuellen, die sie als ambitionierte Konzeptkünstler bewundern, über Familien bis hin zur schwulen Partyszene. Kristof Magnusson nahm zum ersten Mal Popmusik im späten Grundschulalter wahr - und da waren die Pet Shop Boys für ihn der Inbegriff ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Vince Ebert: Die jetzt aber wirklich große Show!

    Stand-up Kabarett

    by Vince Ebert ...
    Narrated by Vince Ebert ...

    Abridged

    53 min

    Comedy ist wie das Leben: Am einen Tag geht's runter, am anderen läufts auch nicht gut! Vince Ebert, geboren am 23.5.68 im Odenwald, hatte als Diplomphysiker gar keine Wahl: Er musste auf die Comedy-Bühne. 1998 mit dem ersten Soloprogramm gestartet, kam er schnell auf die Bühnen renommierter deutscher Theater und ins Fernsehen: Ottis Schlachthof im BR, WDR Nightwash, Mitternachtsspitzen, Pro ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Com amor, Janis

    by Laura Joplin ...
    Narrated by Bárbara Aravolo ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 18 min

    O livro que inspirou o aclamado documentário da Netflix "O livro que todo fã de rock precisa ler." Melissa Etheridge "Um mergulho em uma das mais trágicas e fascinantes vidas do rock and roll." Los Angeles Times Janis Joplin brilhou na cena musical dos anos 1960. Com uma voz rouca inconfundível e performances inesquecíveis no palco, a rainha do rock teve a vida interrompida tragicamente aos 27 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Chromatics Camp At The Musical Mountain

    Narrated by Daniel Smerdon ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 45 min

    There’s a rumour spreading quickly on the farm that triggers immediate emergency escape plans for this unknowing bunch of fruit and vegetables. And there’s a certain upcoming birthday to celebrate, but it’s too dangerous to stay on the farm. Where can they flee to? Make no mistake; this is a day full of twists and turns. Just how does an ordinary Saturday morning lead to an unexpected adventure of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ten Masterpieces of Music

    by Harvey Sachs ...
    Narrated by Paul Bellantoni ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 40 min

    In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of ten great works of classical music?works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters?Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    But Beautiful

    A Book About Jazz

    by Geoff Dyer ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Futuromania

    Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today

    Narrated by Rich Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 47 min

    A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the FutureSimon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future—the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Wolfgang Niedecken über Bob Dylan - KiWi Musikbibliothek, Band 11 (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

    Narrated by Wolfgang Niedecken ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Wolfgang Niedecken ist Deutschlands erfolgreichster Mundart-Rockmusiker und Frontmann der Kölner Band BAP. Der wichtigste Einfluss auf seine Musik ist das Werk von Bob Dylan: er hat zahlreiche Cover-Versionen der Songs von Bob Dylan veröffentlicht, hat Bob Dylan mehrfach getroffen und in der höchst erfolgreichen ARTE-Produktion "Bob Dylans Amerika" als Protagonist mitgewirkt. Er ist ein profunder ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Won't Back Down

    Heartland Rock and the Fight for America

    by Erin Osmon ...
    Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 54 min

    One of America’s leading music journalists on heartland rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics of the 1980s.Hear “American Girl” or “Born in the U.S.A.” and, like it or not, chances are you begin to hum along. The soundtrack of grocery stores, pool halls, bowling alleys, flea markets, chain restaurants, drug stores, and political rallies—heartland rock, while beloved by some and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Anthems We Love

    29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives

    by Steve Baltin ...
    Narrated by Steve Baltin, Cameron Crowe ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    Read by the author.**"**Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " —Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–nominated director, producer, and screenwriter (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Say Anything, and Pearl Jam Twenty)From U2 to Carly Simon, the Temptations t... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Century of Song

    101 Songs that Shaped American Music

    by Noah Lefevre ...
    Narrated by Brian Telestai ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    Discover the Music that Changed EverythingEmbark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them.Noah Lefevre, creator of Polyphonic, explores how our favorite music does more than entertain. From Aretha Franklin carving out her own space in what had been considered a man's world by reworking the chauvinistic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    One Way Out

    The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band

    by Alan Paul ...
    Narrated by Dan John Miller ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    One Way Out is the powerful biography of the Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at a legendary American rock band that has meant so much to so many for so long.For twenty-five years, Alan Paul has covered the Allman ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Inner Game of Music

    by Barry Green ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Abbott ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    The Inner Game of music is that which takes place in the mind, played against such elusive opponents as nervousness, self doubt, and fear of failure. Using the same principles of "natural learning" W. Timothy Gallwey developed so successfully for tennis, golf, and skiing and applying them to his own field, noted musician Barry Green shows how to acknowledge and overcome these internal obstacles in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Philosophy of Modern Song

    by Bob Dylan ...
    Narrated by Bob Dylan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Why Bushwick Bill Matters

    Narrated by André Santana ...
    Series series Why Music Matters

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    In 1989 the Geto Boys released a blistering track, “Size Ain’t Shit,” that paid tribute to the group’s member Bushwick Bill. Born with dwarfism, Bill was one of the few visibly disabled musicians to achieve widespread fame and one of the even fewer to address disability in a direct, sustained manner. Initially hired as a dancer, Bill became central to the Geto Boys as the Houston crew became one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rust in Peace

    The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Megadeth’s iconic record, Rust in Peace, from the band’s lead vocalist and guitarist.When Rust in Peace was released in 1990, the future of Megadeth was uncertain. Fresh off their performance at the record-breaking Monsters of Rock festival, and with knockout new albums from Slayer, Anthrax, and Metallica dominating the charts, the pressure to produce ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    張艾嘉的音樂故事─曖魅

    Narrated by 張艾嘉 ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 15 min

    東方人愛聽鄉野傳奇、西方人流行都市傳說,演出者與作曲家如何用聲音與音符述說這些精采故事,讓人聽得拍案叫絕又盪氣迴腸?愛情故事,向來為世人歌詠,那些千回百折的幽微心事,如何透過甜苦交織的幽幽訴說與百轉千回的曲調,讓人感同身受?張艾嘉的音樂故事,以鄉野傳奇為主軸,結合聲音演繹與古典樂曲,在音樂彈奏與視覺效果的演出中,不只能聽到魔性奇幻又刻骨銘心的經典樂曲名作,還能感受張艾嘉豐富多變的聲音表情以及鋼琴炫技的繽紛燦爛播講介紹:張艾嘉知名演員、編劇和電影導演,曾獲臺灣金馬獎與香港電影金像獎,曾任臺北金馬影展執行委員會主席。更曾兩奪香港電影金像獎最佳女主角和兩奪編劇獎,三奪金馬獎,2018年更成為亞洲電影大獎最佳女主角和終身成就獎得主。身兼編、導、演、監製及歌手的全才女強人-張艾嘉,以說故事,名聞全球,這次她用自己豐富多變的聲音表情,說起因樂故事,更找來享譽國際的知名鋼琴家嚴俊傑一同演出,讓聲音與樂曲 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Adorning the Dark

    Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

    Narrated by Andrew Peterson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone.Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has performed thousands of concerts, published four novels, released ten albums, taught college and seminary classes on writing, founded a nonprofit ministry for Christians in the arts, and executive-produced a film—all in a belief that God calls us to proclaim ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus