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Title: Mr. Media: The Margo Martindale Interview

Author: Margo Martindale

Narrator: Bob Andelman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-13

Publisher: Mr. Media Interviews

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Imagine stretching a rubber band between the index finger on one hand and the thumb on the other. Now visualize pulling your fingers as far apart as possible. That's it...keep pulling...and pulling...OUCH! Somebody will always get hurt when you do that. That's what I pictured happening upstairs to Margo Martindale's character, Janice Trimble, in her new movie, Scalene. And that's just in the opening minutes.

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Title: The Royal Opera House in the 20th Century

Author: Frances Donaldson

Narrator: Jane Carr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is home of two of the most famous opera and ballet companies in the world. In this official history, Frances Donaldson discusses Covent Garden's many legendary achievements - Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, the unparalleled partnership of Fonteyn and Nureyev, the recent Otello with Domingo. She follows the attitude of the English to opera and their Opera House, and the crusade for opera to be sung in English. She looks at the internal politics and at the often charismatic personalities who have worked at the Opera House: Thomas Beecham, George Solti, Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton.

Underlying the story, despite the many successful seasons, are the ever-present problems of financial support and uncertainty of the future. The history is superbly well-documented from the Royal Opera House archives. Comments from journalists of the time -whose critical reviews sometimes led to singers of international acclaim refusing to return to Covent Garden - lend spice to this fine analysis of administrative and artistic management at the Garden.

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Title: Folk Music in the United States

Subtitle: An Introduction

Author: Helen Myers, Bruno Nettl

Narrator: Steven A. Berner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Folk Music in the United States gives listeners a broad overview of many kinds of folk music found in this country, from the songs of rural Appalachia and New England through the indigenous music of the American Indians and the African music brought by slaves, to the folk songs of European minorities. It traces the way folk music lives in the modern city, in the academic world, and in the contemporary music of American composers.

The audiobook introduces listeners to the study of folk music as a kind of music and as an aspect of human culture. It uses music as an index to understanding American culture while it introduces listeners to various concepts in the field of ethnomusicology.

The book is published by Wayne State University Press.

Members Reviews:

Mechanical narration almost ruins the content

Would you consider the audio edition of Folk Music in the United States to be better than the print version?

I haven't read the print version, but I think I would have rather read it.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The story itself was interesting.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narration sounded very artificial, uncannily like text-to-speech synthesis. Very distracting.

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Title: The Who's 'The Who Sell Out' (33 1/3 Series)

Author: John Dougan

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire...the album sold well, but not spectacularly, [and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness: 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a DJ, with cool, anglocentric commercials to boot.

In the 36 years since its release, Sell Out, though still not the best selling release in The Who's catalog, has been embraced by a growing number of fans who regard it as the band's best work; one of the few recordings of the late 1960s that best represents the ambitious aesthetic possibilities of the concept album; without becoming mired in a bog of smug, self-aggrandizing, high art aspirations. Sell Out, powerfully and ecstatically, articulates the nexus of pop music and pop culture.

As much as it is an expression of the band's expanding sonic palette, Sell Out also functions as a critique of the rock-and-roll lifestyle. Not the cliched mantra of sex, drugs, and rock and roll but in the ways that commercial advertising fabricates a youth-oriented cultural reality by hawking pimple cream, deodorant, food, musical equipment, etc., and linking it with rock and roll. In this sense Sell Out is a reflective work, one that struggles with rock and roll as a cultural expression that aspires to aesthetic permanence while marketed as ephemera. From this conflict emerges a pop art masterpiece.

Editorial Reviews:

John Dougan scrutinizes The Who Sell Out with the clinical eye of a fan whose appreciation of the Who encompasses both their greatness and their flaws. Dougan examines the album's high-concept ambitions, which seemed to target pop intellectuals while at the same time, linked a commercialized and mass-marketed youth culture to rock and roll. Recipient of both Audie and Earphones Awards, narrator Jonathan Davis gives a lithe, effortless performance that weaves together Dougan's conclusions, finding a conflicted nostalgia within his words.

Members Reviews:

Good, but...

'This is a treatise not only on the album in question, but also on pop art and the origins of pop radio in Britain going right back to the earliest days of the BBC. This is a good essay, but it takes up way more than half the book. I'd have been much happier if the pop art and pop radio essay (both of which are useful, even essential, factors in understanding this album) occupied around a third of the book, with the remainder of the book dealing with the album itself. It is, after all, supposed to be about 'Sell Out'!

I didn't mind the author's experiences on learning to love rock music and especially The Who, but I would have liked more anecdotes and background to the album itself. There wasn't a whole lot more on that, than you can find in Dave Marsh's excellent booklet that accompanied the 1995 CD reissue. I rather suspect that may have been the author's primary source material.

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Title: Modern Dance

Subtitle: Second Edition

Author: Janet Anderson

Narrator: Beth Richmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Modern dance was a movement that began at the turn of the 20th century, when American dancers Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis broke from formal dance traditions with their own personal vision of movement. Soon, their visions evolved through Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman, who would all go on to teach their methods and present modern dance as a serious art form. Avant-garde choreographers, including Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, stripped dance down to the essence of movement itself, while Alwin Nikolais, Alvin Ailey, and Twyla Tharp incorporated unconventional influences and elements to create a diverse and unique tapestry of dance.

Modern Dance, Second Edition was originally published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading educational publisher.

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Title: Reinventing Dance in the 1960s

Subtitle: Everything Was Possible

Author: Sally Banes

Narrator: Margaret Durante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-11

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this impressive volume of essays an impressive range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era, such as Anna Halprin's West Coast experiments, the innovative Judson Dance Theater, avant-garde dance subcultures in New York, the work of Merideth Monk and Kenneth King, and parallel movements in Britain. The contributors include Janice Ross, Leslie Satin, Noel Carroll, Gus Solomons Jr., Deborah Jowitt, Stephanie Jordan, Joan Acocella, and Sally Banes. Foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov. The book is published by University of Wisconsin Press.

Critic Reviews:

"This thoughtful collection of essays edited by Sally Banes, preeminent historian of U.S. dance, looks back at that tumultuous decade (1960s) from a multiplicity of new perspectives." (Lynn Garafola, Barnard College)

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Title: Sebastian Junger in Conversation with Henry Weinstein (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Subtitle: Panel 2121

Author: Sebastian Junger

Narrator: Henry Weinstein

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-10

Publisher: Los Angeles Times

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

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Title: Beyond Baseball: The Sport of Dreams (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Subtitle: Panel 2093

Author: Edward Achorn, Jesse Katz, Mark Kurlansky

Narrator: David Davis

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-10

Publisher: Los Angeles Times

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

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Title: Bill McKibben in Conversation with Susan Salter Reynolds (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Subtitle: Panel 2052

Author: Bill McKibben

Narrator: Susan Salter Reynolds

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-10

Publisher: Los Angeles Times

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

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Title: Page and Screen (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Subtitle: Panel 2032

Author: David Freeman, Leslie Schwartz, Diana Wagman

Narrator: John Sacret Young

Format: Original Recording

Length: 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-10

Publisher: Los Angeles Times

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.