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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Buying Art: How to evaluate and buy art like a professional collector Author: Alan Bamberger Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 45 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'The very best book on the subject ever published' —Bernard Ewell, Personal Property Journal (the trade publication of the American Society of Appraisers) The art world can appear impenetrable to the beginner. This classic book, in print since 1990, is an invaluable primer that will help anyone to penetrate the thickets of inscrutable 'insider info' and esoteric jargon. Updated for today's art market, including online buying, The Art of Buying Art is without a doubt the most accessible book on how to research, evaluate, price, and buy artworks—for anyone who wants to buy art. No previous knowledge of art or the art business is necessary. Topics include: how to research and evaluate art prices like the professionals; how to build a quality collection; how to spot fakes and forgeries; how to buy art at auctions and directly from artists; how to negotiate prices; and how to tell the difference between an original and a reproduction. Bamberger provides the information needed to transform anyone into an informed art consumer, to protect collectors from bad buys, and to help them locate the best art at the correct prices.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio Author: Katherine Rye Jewell Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned to college radio to defy the mainstream—and they ended up disrupting popular music and commercial radio in the process. In this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power to the politics of higher education as much as they did to upstart bohemian music scenes coast to coast. Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music—they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlooked contributions to popular culture that students, DJs, and listeners never anticipated. More than an ode to beloved stations, this book will resonate with both music fans and observers of the politics of culture.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon Author: Joel Selvin Narrator: David Bendena Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Jim Gordon was the greatest rock drummer of all-time. Just ask the world-famous musicians who played with him—John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition, perfect sense of time, and his “big fill”—the mathematically-precise clatter that exploded like detonating fireworks on his drum breaks. And as bestselling author and award-winning journalist Joel Selvin reveals, the story of Jim Gordon is the most brilliant, turbulent, and wrenching rock opera ever. This riveting narrative follows Gordon as the very chemicals in his brain that gifted him also destroyed him. His head crowded with a hellish gang of voices screaming at him, demanding obedience, Gordon descended from the absolute heights of the rock world—playing with the most famous musicians of his generation—to working with a Santa Monica dive-bar band for $30 a night. And then he committed the most shocking crime in rock history. With full cooperation from the late Gordon's family and based on his trademark extensive, detailed research, Joel Selvin’s account is at once an epic journey through an artist’s monumental musical contributions, a rollicking history of rock drumming, and a terrifying downward spiral into the unimaginable madness that Gordon fought a valiant but losing battle against. One of the great untold stories of rock is finally being told.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class Author: Michael Gross Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial America's founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the clans progress, prosper, and periodically stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime mis-use of astonishing economic and political power; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. In previous acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues' Gallery, Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential contribution to American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Morgen, morgen und wieder morgen (Ungekürzt) Author: Gabrielle Zevin Narrator: Slim Weidenfeld, Moritz Pliquet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Mitte der 90er-Jahre in Massachusetts: An einer U-Bahn-Station trifft Sadie, hochbegabte Informatikstudentin und angehende Designerin von Computerspielen, ihren früheren Super-Mario-Partner Sam wieder. Die beiden beginnen, gemeinsam an einem Spiel zu arbeiten, und schnell zeigt sich, dass sie nicht nur auf freundschaftlicher, sondern auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Computerspiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen. Ein Jahrzehnte umspannender Roman über Popkultur und Kreativität, Wagnis und Scheitern, über Verlust und über die Magie der Freundschaft.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - In Liebe, Pamela Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Wagener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 21, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Popikone, Sexsymbol, Tierrechtsaktivistin, Schauspielerin, Sinnbild des Lebensgefühls der Neunzigerjahre – all diese Beschreibungen treffen zu. Allerdings werden sie dem Phänomen Pamela Anderson nicht gerecht. Die Frau, die von vielen allzu schnell als Baywatch-Nixe oder Playboy-Häschen abgetan wird, kann auf ein schillerndes Leben zwischen Glamour, Skandalen und dem Engagement für Minderheiten und Schutzlose zurückblicken. In ihrer offenherzigen Autobiografie erzählt sie von ihrer Kindheit in ärmlichen Verhältnissen und dem beschwerlichen Aufstieg zur weltweit bekannten Verfechterin von Frauenrechten und Emanzipation. Dabei kommen so unterschiedliche Themen zur Sprache wie Missbrauch, ihr turbulentes Eheleben, das brisante Sexvideo mit Mötley-Crüe-Schlagzeuger Tommy Lee und die Liebe für die Literatur. Pamela Anderson scheut sich nicht, ihre verletzliche, liebevolle und sensible Seite zu zeigen, die sie sich trotz aller Fehleinschätzungen und Anfeindungen bewahrt hat. Ihre Worte fesseln, bewegen, rütteln auf, klingen dabei aber wie im Gespräch mit einer guten Freundin geäußert, die man seit Jahren zum ersten Mal wiedersieht.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock Author: David Hamilton Golland Narrator: Michael Butler Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock 'n' roll glory is a complex story of ambition, larger-than-life personalities, and clashes. David Hamilton Golland unearths the band's true and complete biography, based on over a decade of interviews and thousands of sources. When Steve Perry joined jazz-blues progressive rock band Journey in 1977, they saw a rise to the top, and their 1981 album Escape hit #1. But Perry's quest for control led to Journey's demise. They lost their record contract and much of their audience. After the unlikely comeback of 'Don't Stop Believin'' in movies, television, and sports stadiums, a new generation discovered Journey. A professional historian, Golland dispels rehashed myths and also shows how race in popular music contributed to their breakout success. As the economy collapsed and as people abandoned the spirit of Woodstock in the late 70s, Journey used the rhythm of soul and Motown to inspire hope in primarily white teenagers' lives. Decades later, the band and their signature song remain classics, and now, with singer Arnel Pineda, they are again a fixture in major stadiums worldwide.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds Author: Michael Broyles Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock 'n' roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today's world? In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s—shaped America's musical future. Drawing connections between new styles of music like the minstrel show, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, and emerging technologies like the locomotive, the first music recordings, and the transistor radio, Broyles argues that these decades fundamentally remade our cultural landscape in enduring ways. These connections revealed racial fault lines running through the business of music, in an echo of American society as a whole. Broyles combines broad historical perspective with an eye for the telling detail and presents a variety of characters to serve as focal points, including the original Jim Crow, a colorful Hungarian dancing master named Gabriel de Korponay, 'Empress of the Blues' Bessie Smith, and the singer Johnnie Ray, whom Tony Bennett called 'the father of rock 'n' roll.' Their stories, and many others, animate Broyles's masterly account of how American music became what it is today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth Be Told: Tales from a Baggy Mouth Author: Linda Robson Narrator: Linda Robson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Written with the warmth and humour that have made her so popular, in her first every memoir, Linda describes her eventful life, from growing up in a Catholic household in Islington to appearing on British television screens in 'Birds of a Feather'. Sharing her ups and down on 'Loose Women', Linda has claimed a place in the nation's heart, offering her audiences a tiny glimpse into her life behind the scenes. But how did she become the television figure we see today? In All Honesty recounts the twists and turns of Linda's five decades spent acting on television, her relationships on and off screen, and the struggles she's faced during this time. Entertaining, funny and shockingly honest, this memoir will take you from laughter to tears as you discover how she became the Linda Robson we love today, and is sure to appeal to her many fans, old and new. ©2023 Linda Robson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El coleccionista de experiencias: (Narrado por el autor) Author: Arturo López Gavito Narrator: Arturo López Gavito Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Arturo López Gavito es un polifacético disruptor, cuya trayectoria lo ha llevado a explotar sus talentos como destacado productor musical, mercadólogo, locutor, mánager, crítico de televisión, conferencista, alto ejecutivo y emprendedor. Apasionado por el coleccionismo, en este libro Gavito nos comparte un catálogode memorias en el que revela episodios entrañables de su historia: anécdotas tras bambalinas junto a las celebridades que ha conocido y entrevistado, la pasión por la música que ha desarrollado desde su infancia, cómo consiguió su primer trabajo en el radio siendo adolescente, cómo descubrió a Moenia y Molotov y los retos de censura que por ello enfrentó, ser la mente maestra detrás del éxito de marketing de la película Coco o del posicionamiento de los contenidosde Marvel en México, su amor por la cocina y cómo sus ideas disruptivas le han supuesto no solo retos sino enemigos. A la par, Arturo va entremezclando sus recuerdos con profundas reflexiones y aprendizajes sobre disciplina, estructura, visión, creatividad, espiritualidad y capacidad autogestiva, valores que han estructurado el éxito de este gran personaje. El coleccionista de experiencias es un disfrutable viaje por la vida de uno de los referentes mexicanos más versátiles de nuestro tiempo.