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Title: Music Practice

Subtitle: The Musician's Guide to Practicing and Mastering Your Instrument Like a Professional

Author: David Dumais

Narrator: Jennifer Capunitan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-17

Publisher: David Dumais

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Music Practice: A guide for all musicians.

Learn all the best practice tips, tricks, and techniques used by the greatest musicians in the world - all for the price of a coffee!

Do you want to know how to practice like the professionals do? Are you struggling with your playing? Having trouble getting motivated? Do you want to improve your playing and bring it to the next level?

I decided to write this audiobook because I was struggling with my own practice, and it took me many years to learn new strategies to get myself to where I wanted to be. Now, I want to share these proven strategies with you. Some of them I discovered myself, but most of these I learned from accomplished professionals.

If you are serious about playing, practicing, and improving your skills on your instrument, then this audiobook is for you! Whether you are a beginner or professional, classically trained or not, this audiobook contains proven strategies that can be applied by anybody.

Why should you buy this audiobook?

This audiobook is a compilation of the best practice tips and strategies from the best musicians in the world.

You will learn practice tips used by world class musicians, ranging from pianists to violinists, and trumpeters to clarinetists.

This audiobook contains over 80 tips for practicing everything from rhythm to intonation to challenging passages.

You will learn how to practice effectively and efficiently.

What you will learn and discover:

Members Reviews:

Amazing

Loved this. You have got to get it. Please. Get it. There is so much to learn.

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Title: Good Booty

Subtitle: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

Author: Ann Powers

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.

In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from 19th-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-20th century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today's web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism - not merely sex but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy - became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom.

In a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect - a magnum opus over two decades in the making - Powers offers new insights into our national psyche and our soul.

Members Reviews:

A deep look a sex and culture through the lens of music.

I picked this up at the library and didn't realize it was a cultural studies book, which is of course no fault of the book or author, and I for some reason expecting a work of music history, which is not the goal of the book at all. I think Powers has done a lot of straight music criticism for popular audiences, and that's probably where my confusion came in. I think it's possible that other people might jump to the same conclusion. It's probably my advancing years and the associated cognitive decline that keeps me scratching my head while reading this book. If you enjoy sentences like this one, you're probably the target audience and will love the book: "Music is so much more than the clearly delineated racial dialogue that several early-twentieth-century jazz musicians slyly called âblack notes on white paper,â but it is that, tooâa means for understanding the racial limits power imposes and the ways that, in lust, love, or careless leisure, people challenge, deny, reinforce, and momentarily obscure those limits."

I hate that I have to give a review stars here on Amazon, because I'm sure this is a fine book that will satisfy many folks. But if you are looking for something similar to books like "Sweet Soul Music", "Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll", "Devil's Music, Holy Rollers, and Hillbillies", or the books of Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, or Robert Gordon, etc., this might not be the book for you.

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Titre: Pourquoi la Joconde n'est pas la toile la plus célèbre du Louvre ? (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-14-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume

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Title: A History of Heavy Metal

Author: Andrew O'Neill

Narrator: Andrew O'Neill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-17

Publisher: Headline

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Based on the "absolutely hilarious" (Neil Gaiman) stand-up show.

The history of heavy metal brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Iron Maiden and Metallica to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave of British heavy metal.

It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cutthroat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and teetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen.

Award-winning comedian and lifelong heavy metal obsessive Andrew O'Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences, from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading theatregoers of the Edinburgh Fringe. Now, in his first book, he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music, the subculture and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music.

Members Reviews:

Yes.

Andrew O'Neill is an excellent comic and evidently a great writer too. I loved the live show when I saw it a few years ago so I'm very happy that this massively expanded version exists.

I found it difficult to stop listening to it when I had to sleep or go for a shower or talk to people. I've finished it now but have a head full of smashing recommendations to keep me busy for ages and ages and I'll probably just put it on again tonight.

I don't expect I can swear here even though swearing is great and clever, so I shall finish by saying that I enjoyed the darn heck out of this book. Ten out of ten supportive death metal parents.

THE BIG 4!

If you could sum up A History of Heavy Metal in three words, what would they be?

YES! This book does tick those 4 boxes:

Funny? TICK!

Informative? TICK!

Modern? TICK!

Cool? TICK!

(I hope no one has confused my headline, with the other 'headline' of the Big 4 because that would be both unfortunate, sad and worrying).

This book is literally the best book on this subject, and indeed many other subjects.

What other book might you compare A History of Heavy Metal to, and why?

I might compare it to Society of the Spectacle as the cover of this book is black and red, and the book 'Society of the Spectacle' is published by Black and Red.

But I won't.

What about Andrew O'Neills performance did you like?

The 'asides'. Made it come alive.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

A History of Heavy Metal - Why the Midlands is important.

Any additional comments?

Brilliant stuff!

Death to all but metal

An entertaining romp through my nostalgia which has lead to me using one of those new fangled things to listen to some stuff I'd missed during my "grown up" years (now behind me)

Fascinating listening

Despite some of the more idiotic jokes that lingered a little too long, this book was very entertaining and eye opening. Metal nerds will enjoy, and undoubtedly have their own ideas of what they consider true heavy metal. If you like the genre listen to enlighten yourself and have something more to debate with mates over a beer or two.

A.

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Title: Break the Business

Author: Ryan Kairalla

Narrator: Ryan Kairalla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-17

Publisher: Break the Business LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

For generations, record companies have dominated the music industry. Artists were unable to get their material to the masses without label backing, meaning that the path to stardom inevitably involved artists having to sign exploitative record contracts. These "record deals" were profoundly one-sided, and usually imposed brutal, predatory terms on artists. Fortunately, times have changed and artists no longer need labels. It is a new music business, and it is time for a new kind of music business book. Break the Business is the musician's guide to achieving music industry success through embracing an independent, entrepreneurial, and artist-centered business model.

Members Reviews:

Read this before you ever consider signing a record deal

Fantastic book! Easy to read and pretty humorous in parts. Most importantly he tells you the truth about record labels and their contracts. You've heard stories like 30 seconds to Mars who sell 2 million copies, never gets paid a dime and still owes EMI 1.4 million. Ryan explains in layman terms how this kind of thing happens and how to avoid it. Ryan then moves on to giving helpful hints on moving on to being a successful indie artist.

Sobering and Empowering

Totally burst my bubble about what I thought the business was, but the same time laid out a clear course to what it can be. "My" business - not "Theirs". Hope every up and coming artist who dreams of making it big reads this book first. It will save them from making the mistake of thinking that the fate of their music is in any hands but their own.

Love this book

Love this book. It offers legal insight and practical tips for navigating the music industry. I think any indie artist who is working on building their career must read this. Great writing, easy to read.

Great! Very informative and enlightening

Great! Very informative and enlightening!

Five Stars

Awesome book! Very helpful!

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Title: The Show That Never Ends

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

Author: David Weigel

Narrator: Rudy Sanda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their successors Rush, Styx, and Asia. With inside access to all the key figures, Washington Post national reporter David Weigel tells the story with the gusto and insight prog rock's fans (and its haters) will relish. Along the way he explains exactly what was "progressive" about prog rock, how it arose from psychedelia and heavy metal, why it dominated the pop charts but then became so despised that it was satirized in This Is Spinal Tap, and what fuels its resurgent popularity today.

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Title: We Gotta Get Out of This Place

Subtitle: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

Author: Doug Bradley, Craig Werner

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it was Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools". And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die", "Who'll Stop the Rain", or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why US troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans-black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and "grunts" - whose personal reflections drive the book's narrative.

Critic Reviews:

"Doug Bradley and Craig Werner's account of music's connection to the Vietnam War is intimate and deeply informative, with a scope that encompasses both the war itself and the way that music has helped raise awareness of veterans' issues long after its end...Nuanced and frequently moving." (Rolling Stone)

Members Reviews:

Must read

Great book for anyone that loves music, history. Very powerful, gripping tales that came from the hearts who lived the terror over there and here.

Music memories

Bought this for a friend who can relate to this book. Bringing back lots of memories and he is really enjoying this book.

Great book!

I was in Vietnam and found out more about the music than I ever knew. Great book!

Five Stars

Absolutely brilliant. Rolling Stone rightly named it #1 music book of 2015.

Boomer book

If you grew up in this era, this will be a nostalgic read. You may find yourself humming some of the songs. The writing is uneven, sometimes repetitive.

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Title: The Holy or the Broken

Subtitle: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

Author: Alan Light

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Today, "Hallelujah" is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows as diverse as Shrek and The West Wing, of tribute videos and telethons. It has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Bob Dylan, U2, Justin Timberlake, and k.d. lang, and it is played every year at countless events - both sacred and secular - around the world.

Yet when music legend Leonard Cohen first wrote and recorded "Hallelujah", it was for an album rejected by his longtime record label. Ten years later charismatic newcomer Jeff Buckley reimagined the song for his much-anticipated debut album, Grace. Three years after that, Buckley would be dead, his album largely unknown, and "Hallelujah" still unreleased as a single. After two such commercially disappointing outings, how did one obscure song become an international anthem for human triumph and tragedy, a song each successive generation seems to feel they have discovered and claimed as uniquely their own?

Members Reviews:

Per the other reviews - it's a fascinating* story but ...

Per the other reviews - it's a fascinating* story but particularly the 2nd half of the book is less interesting and only for those who get slightly obsessive.

* In fact I found it put me into a rather emotional state that I don't really know how to describe but found quite unique. Not sure books have done that for me before so was worth the price of admission for moving me in a weird inexplicable way!

Just not my cup of tea (with oranges)

I should have known better. While a real admirer of Leonard Cohen and his songs and poetry, I'm far from sufficiently avid to be willing to read an entire book about a single song. I bought it because "Hallelujah" is one of the most enigmatic popular songs I've ever heard. It can be haunting, heartbreaking, even reassuring, or--and this applies to most performances I've heard--treacly, and I mistakenly thought I could gain some understanding of how such variation in what is basically simple material could be. But the author dwells on the (to my ears) vapid, whiny Jeff Buckley recording and pretty much ignores others that are so much more insightful and thrilling.

LC and Hallelujah

Such a unique book with so many interesting people all tied together with the song. Very well done and I love the ability to hear so many of the versions discussed.

It is powerful that it can be used in so many different scenerios and that different choices can be made from the verse selections. I still like the London DVD version best.

Light's Writing!!!

I had the privilege of meeting Alan Light, the author, last fall at an event hosted at Vanderbilt, which is what prompted me to buy the book. He's an acclaimed music writer with an impressive resume and it shines through in this book. His interviews with Cohen, other musicians, and the crafting of histories around 'Hallelujah' gave me a new appreciation for this song and the artists who perform it. The song itself stands out as a great work of art, but after reading Light's composition of the song's importance in music history, I can see this book also rising in prestige.

Bland

Run-of-the-mill.

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Title: Meet Me in the Bathroom

Subtitle: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

Author: Lizzy Goodman

Narrator: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-17

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 163 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.

In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war - and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.

Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it - including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend - and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many other musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock and roll.

Members Reviews:

Best music book I've ever read.

Couldn't put it down. I learned more about the origins of one of the most important 10yrs in recent music history than any other resource I've ever seen. Immediately joins the pantheon of must-read music books.

Rates with the best rock bios.

Found myself pausing this read quite often to look up songs on Spotify. As much as I enjoy the oral history part of this book, it's Goodman's analysis of the music and the environs it sprang from that I appreciate most. Will most likely listen to this one again, and soon.

Not For Old man

Would you try another book from Lizzy Goodman and/or Charlie Thurston and Nicol Zanzarella ?

Did not understand and did not find the story interesting

Would you ever listen to anything by Lizzy Goodman again?

No

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Moved to fast to follow the story

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Nothing

nothing earth shattering in the book

a basic compilation of various articles and interviews. the thread is thinly stretched to include artists not from NYC. failed miserably at capturing the essence of the city at that time

All stories from the ppl that lived through it!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend the physical book. At first I didn't like the sound of the narrators.

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Title: American Epic

Subtitle: When Music Gave America Her Voice

Author: Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Elijah Wald

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music - blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American - without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip-hop today.

In the 1920s and 1930s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios in major cities in search of new styles and markets. Ranging the mountains, prairies, rural villages, and urban ghettos of America, they discovered a wealth of unexpected talent - farmers, laborers, and ethnic minorities playing styles that blended the intertwining strands of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Fortunately, thanks to the continuing efforts of cultural detectives and record devotees, the stories of America's earliest musicians can finally be told. Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty spent years traveling around the United States in search of recollections of those musical pioneers. Their fascinating account, written with the assistance of Elijah Wald, continues the journey of the series and features additional stories.

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