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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brementown Musicians: A Tale with Music Author: Ina Allen Narrator: John Pruessner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Brementown Musicians CD presents a story of four aging domestic animals who, after a lifetime of hard work, are about to be disposed of by their masters. In this slightly varied adaptation of the classic Grimm Brothers folktale, the animals, embarking on the road but not knowing where to go or what to do, are greeted by a guiding spirit who encourages them not to feel downtrodden or worthless but to recognize their inherent worth and talents by connecting to the music that resides inside them. All the animals have a characteristic musical piece that is unique to them which resonates their true nature. As the story unfolds, children hear classical music drawn from three centuries of piano literature, with each piece varied in style, tempo, and temperament. The selections, chosen with children in mind, are short pieces taken from famous composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofieff. The interplay (though never overlap) of storytelling and music listening encourages children’s imagination while fostering an appreciation for the arts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition Author: Julian Stallabrass Narrator: Corrie James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Contemporary art has never been so popular—but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art continues to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality. In this Very Short Introduction Julian Stallabrass gives a clear view on the diverse and rapidly moving scene of contemporary art. Exploring art's striking globalization from the 1990s onwards, he analyzes how new regions and nations, such as China, have leapt into astonishing prominence, over-turning the old Euro-American dominance on aesthetics. Showing how contemporary art has drawn closer to fashion and the luxury goods market as artists have become accomplished marketers of their work, Stallabrass discusses the reinvention of artists as brands. This new edition also considers how once powerful art criticism has mutated into a critical and performative writing at which many artists excel.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Art History: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition Author: Dana Arnold Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artifacts that make up art history. Beginning with a consideration of what art history is, she explains what makes the subject distinctive from other fields of study, and also explores the emergence of social histories of art (such as Feminist Art History and Queer Art History). Using a wide range of images, she goes on to explore key aspects of the discipline including how we write, present, read, and look at art, and the impact this has on our understanding of art history. This second edition includes a new chapter on global art histories, considering how the traditional emphasis on periods and styles in art originated in western art and can obscure other critical approaches and artwork from non-western cultures. Arnold also discusses the relationship between art and history, and the ways in which art can tell a different history from the one narrated by texts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook Author: David Rotenberg Narrator: David Rotenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 15, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher. Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America's most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg's techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions and beats, and more. Although his methods loosely draw on the great acting teachers like Hagen and Meisner back to Stanislavski, he teaches new techniques suited to the best of today's screen actors. This is a major new work in the actor's library and will be pulled off the shelf time and again to find that key into a scene, to prepare for an audition, or to find that right technique to make the art come alive again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ Author: Tony Reinke Narrator: Graham Geisler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 9, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: John Newton is famous for his legendary hymn "Amazing Grace." Many have celebrated his dramatic conversion from a life in the slave trade to his eventual work to end it. But often overlooked are Newton's forty years as a pastor ministering to parishioners and friends unsettled by the trials, doubts, and fears of life. Newton is perhaps the greatest pastoral letter writer in the history of the church. He took up his pen day after day to help others fix their eyes on Christ, which, he writes, is the underlying battle of the Christian life. Through a careful study of scores of letters, Tony Reinke brings together Newton's brilliant vision of the Christian life in one accessible place.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Vida de clown. La tragicomedia del ser Author: Alain Vigneau Narrator: Alain Vigneau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 7, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: «Vida de clown» es una biografía diferente, apasionada, hilarante y arrebatadora. A mitad de camino entre las películas de Fellini y la poesía del surrealismo, la vida de Alain es un profundo testimonio de resiliencia que nos invita a perseguir nuestros sueños a través del humor y el amor. Alain Vigneau solo tenía siete años cuando su madre fue asesinada. Ese terrible suceso podría haberle impedido avanzar, pero acabó dotándole de una gran sensibilidad y amor por la vida, un amor que ha invertido a lo largo de toda su trayectoria en ayudar a los demás: como pastor, como clown de Payasos sin Fronteras, como investigador de arteterapia... A través de este relato personal, Alain nos descubre que la nariz de payaso nos ayuda a curar nuestras heridas y nos permite ser nosotros mismos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Alain Vigneau, nacido en Francia en 1959, fue pastor en el Pirineo, ejerció de clown durante 23 años, tanto en teatros como en escenarios bélicos junto a Payasos sin Fronteras, también colaboró durante una década con el psiquiatra Claudio Naranjo y ahora se dedica a la investigación en los ámbitos terapéuticos y artísticos del mundo del Clown, siendo reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los mayores exponentes en este ámbito.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense Author: Edward White Narrator: Qarie Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book’s twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock’s life and work: “The Boy Who Couldn’t Grow Up,” “The Murderer,” “The Auteur,” “The Womanizer,” “The Fat Man,” “The Dandy,” “The Family Man,” “The Voyeur,” “The Entertainer,” “The Pioneer,” “The Londoner,” and “The Man of God.” Each of these angles reveals something fundamental about the man he was and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just the life Hitchcock lived but also the various versions of himself that he projected and those projected on his behalf. White’s portrayal illuminates a vital truth: Hitchcock was more than a Hollywood titan; he was the definitive modern artist, and his significance reaches far beyond the confines of cinema.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Blues Author: Chris Thomas King Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King presents facts to disprove such myths. For example, as early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman’s paradise—the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation. Moreover, this book is the first to argue that the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. Protestant states such as Mississippi and Alabama could not have incubated the blues. New Orleans was the only place in the Deep South where the sacred and profane could party together without fear of persecution. Expecting these findings to be controversial in some circles, King has buttressed his conclusions with primary sources and years of extensive research, including a sojourn to West Africa and interviews with surviving folklorists and blues researchers from the 1960s folk-rediscovery epoch. They say the blues is blasphemous—the devil’s music. King says they’re unenlightened, that blues music is about personal freedom.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: CenterStage: Twelve of My Most Fascinating Interviews Author: Michael Kay Narrator: Seth Myers, Lorne Michaels, Bobby Orr, Jerry Jones, Quentin Tarantino, Snoop Dogg, Larry David, Michael Kay, Paul Simon, Mike Tyson, Rob Reiner, Alan Alda, Bill Russell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the longtime host of the New York Yankees’ television broadcasts, ESPN Radio’s The Michael Kay Show, and YES Network’s Emmy Award–winning CenterStage comes an “entertaining…greatest-hits collection” (Kirkus Reviews) of his most memorable interviews with the most intriguing personalities in sports and entertainment—from Jay-Z to Mike Tyson to Serena Williams to Adam Sandler to Bon Jovi to Larry David. Emmy Award–winning television announcer and interviewer Michael Kay’s eighteen years as host of YES Network’s CenterStage have given him access to many remarkable figures in sports and entertainment. Now, this absorbing selection of the best, most revealing—and often surprising—interviews is available in one amazing collection, including some of the behind-the-scenes stories that didn’t appear on camera. From Kay’s very first CenterStage interview in 2001 with quarterback Steve Young, the show’s creators knew they had something special. Kay’s ability to get celebrities and otherwise private personalities to open up and share candid insights has become his trademark. Among the interviews featured in the book are those with Red Auerbach, Charles Barkley, Mike Tyson, Bobby Orr, Sly Stallone, Jay-Z, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, John McEnroe, Rob Reiner, Seth Meyers, Serena Williams, Alan Alda, David Halberstam, Larry David, Bob Costas, Billy Crystal, Lindsey Vonn, Chris Evert, and Quentin Tarantino. For any pop culture fan or sports enthusiast, this prized collection “should be high on your reading list” (Alex Rodriguez, three-time American League MVP).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Until I Smile At You': How one girl's heartbreak electrified Frank Sinatra's fame Author: Peter Jennings Narrator: Tom Sandler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Until I Smile At You” is a biography/memoir profiling one of the 20th century’s most enduring musical talents: Ruth Lowe, who overcame her grief by writing the song that launched Frank Sinatra’s career into the stratosphere in 1940, “I’ll Never Smile Again”. As Nancy Sinatra writes in the Foreword, “There’s a reason why ‘I’ll Never Smile Again’ has endured: it was a perfect song, interpreted by the perfect singer, at the perfect time.” The book details how Ruth managed to defeat the roadblocks that threatened her life, adopting a fearless attitude by overcoming challenges that might otherwise have broken her soul. And in today’s era of women claiming their full rights, “Until I Smile At You” also reveals Ms. Lowe as one of the earliest liberated females who worked in a man’s world (Tin Pan Alley) and never let her gender, nor her attractive good looks, get in the way of her outstanding talent. That’s why she’s been called, “One of the Architects of the American Ballad”, she is the recipient of a Grammy Award, her songs have been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, her signature tune has been selected as one of the best pop songs of all time and she’s soon to be added to the Great American Songbook Foundation Hall of Fame. “Until I Smile At You” opens up Ruth’s life for the first time, revealing her “on the road” adventures across North America as a member of the all-female band, Ina Ray Hutton’s “Mellowdears”. We also read about luminaries whom the author interviewed and who cast a warm glow on Ruth’s talents such as Bernie Taupin (Elton John’s lyricist), Sir Tim Rice (lyric writer for Andrew Lloyd Webber), Alan Bergman (award-winning songwriter for Barbra Streisand, Sinatra, etc.), the late Frank Sinatra Jr., music historian Chuck Granata, Sinatra biographer James Kaplan, singer David Clayton-Thomas, etc.