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Title: How to Learn Guitar

Subtitle: The Ultimate Teach Yourself Guitar Book

Author: Pauric Mather

Narrator: Nick Cracknell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-17

Publisher: Pauric Mather

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Unbelievable Value for Money

What You Will Learn:

For thousands of people this is "The Ultimate Teach Yourself Guitar Book". It helped them to learn fastereasier & more efficiently than any other teaching method. Inside is the most complete, individual & personalised program of lessons you will ever find.

Better Than a Guitar Teacher

You'll See Yourself Improving Every Day

All your practice is pre-planned from start to finish. That is the key to your success. It also helps you achieve in weeks, what took many people years to learn.

Yet, this is a simple book. Clear, practical, & easy to follow. The author, Pauric Mather has crafted each lesson so well, you need no knowledge of music whatsoever to learn from it. Everything is superbly explainedand shown to you exactly as played by top guitarists.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Highly recommend this book for all levels from beginner to intermediate. The techniques are worth the read.

Great!!

This teaches things you don't think of. Great!!

Five Stars

It teaches you if you have patience

Three Stars

Good book

Five Stars

If you buy this book you are going to be surprised because it helps you a lot.

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Title: Can't Stand Up for Falling Down

Subtitle: Rock 'n' Roll War Stories

Author: Allan Jones

Narrator: Matt Bates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-17

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s, a gilded time for the music press.

By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful, the Stop Me...stories collected here include encounters with some of rock's most iconic stars, including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam. From backstage brawls and drug blow-outs, to riots, superstar punch-ups, hotel room confessionals and tour bus lunacy, these are stories from the madness of a music scene now long gone.

Allan Jones is an award-winning British music journalist and editor. In 1974, he applied for a job on the UK's best-selling music paper as a junior reporter, signing off his application with 'Melody Maker needs a bullet up the arse. I'm the gun, pull the trigger'. He was editor of Melody Maker from 1984 to 1997 and until 2014 editor of music and film monthly Uncut.

Members Reviews:

Funny, touching and informative

Allan Jones operated at the top of music journalism business from soon after he was hired by the New Musical Express in the mid-1970's. By pure coincidence he was also friendly with the Clash's Joe Strummer from the early part of the decade when Strummer was a grave digger in South Wales and Jones was at art school there. This was the period when jouralists could be friendly with rock stars and travel as part of a band's tour party and not only witness but also participate in the sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Written as a sequence of shortish stories the book starts at the time when Lemmy Kilminster was famous as the bassist in Hawkwind up to the point when new wave artists like Squeeze and Elvis Costelloe were cracking America and Def Leppard began to popularise big hair, tight jeans and white trainers. Jones really had a front row seat for all of this so we get to hear for instance what it's like to meet Lemmy and get on with him well enough to go on a speed fuelled bender. Not everyone was as clubbable as Lemmy however so we suffer with the author as he's beaten to a pulp by Black Sabbath's Toni Iommi and deal with the extraordinarily charmless Elvis Costelloe. And while it's no suprise to hear another anecdote confirming that Van Morrison is a rude git Jones' capacity for getting along with people means we get to hear what it's like to get along with Lou Reed well enough to be invited to hang out with him.

As the book progresses some artists crop up repeatedly as Jones' work intersects with their rising or falling careers. His writing about the Clash is really interesting on that front as he was friendly with Strummer from the days when he was scratching around to find venues that would allow his early bands to play through the period when he reinvented himself as a punk and the singer of the Clash and on to the point where the band were huge and a view was growing that Strummer was a slightly ridiculous political poser.

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Title: Equipment for Living

Subtitle: On Poetry and Pop Music

Author: Michael Robbins

Narrator: Rudy Sanda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

How can art help us make sense of the world? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all.

Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins's mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. His singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, W. B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick's Cups) will change the way you listen to music and read poetry. He weaves a discussion of poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, attaining insights few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.

Members Reviews:

... picked up this collection of essays after enjoying Robbins' brilliant first collection of poems

I picked up this collection of essays after enjoying Robbins' brilliant first collection of poems, Alien vs. Predator. I really enjoyed most of this, but not all, mostly because I don't share his enthusiasm for heavy metal. Nor did he convince me to go back and listen another time.

I can't think of an essayist who combines poetry and pop music so well (or at least in alternate chapters in one volume). Robbins does that pretty well; the essays are much richer than the typical book or music review, pulling out colorful strands of the lost history of poetry, without suffering from the ostentatious academic persiflage that plagues post-graduate cultural criticism. (Robbins defines criticism as "parasitic literature" in an essay about Pauline Kael.) At the same time, like his poems, he keeps it entertaining.

Poets are usually much better essayists than essayists who try their hand at poetry. Joseph Brodsky is one example. And the essay that precedes "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass is a masterpiece. (OK, there are a few essayists whose poems are surprisingly good, considering it's not their primary metier. Clive James is one that immediately comes to mind. But I digress...) Robbins has the poet's talent for compressed expression that can suddenly render a startling aphorism or assertion such as: "There's no such thing as a private language; language is a social fact."

The essays on Dylan Thomas (short) and Frederick Seidel (much longer) are particularly rewarding.

All That and a Play List

As a kid in high school I read John Ciardi's reviews in Saturday Review magazine faithfully. While Robbins' generational experience is nothing like Ciardi's his intellectual rigor and the hard-work/appreciation he exhibits in his essays reminds me of John Ciardi's expectations for readers of poetry. Heavy Metal music is not my "thing" but I can understand how it is culturally significant. I even tried, and Mr. Robbins' suggestion, to listen to Gorgut.

The Insufferable Friend

I agree with a lot of what Michael Robbins says, I disagree with a lot else, but most of all I deeply disagree with the way he says it.

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Title: Queen of Bebop

Subtitle: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

Author: Elaine M. Hayes

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-17

Publisher: Harper Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century and a pioneer of women's and civil rights.

Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers who followed in her wake, yet the breadth and depth of her impact - not just as an artist but also as an African American woman - remain overlooked.

Drawing from a wealth of sources as well as on exclusive interviews with Vaughan's friends and former colleagues, Queen of Bebop unravels the many myths and misunderstandings that have surrounded Vaughan while offering insights into this notoriously private woman, her creative process, and, ultimately, her genius. Hayes deftly traces the influence that Vaughan's singing had on the perception and appreciation of vocalists - not to mention women - in jazz. She reveals how, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Vaughan helped desegregate American airwaves, opening doors for future African American artists seeking mainstream success, while also setting the stage for the civil rights activism of the 1960s and 1970s. She follows Vaughan from her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, and her first performances at the Apollo to the Waldorf Astoria and on to the world stage, breathing life into a thrilling time in American music nearly lost to us today.

Equal parts biography, criticism, and good old-fashioned American success story, Queen of Bebop is the definitive biography of a hugely influential artist. This absorbing and sensitive treatment of a singular personality updates and corrects the historical record on Vaughan and elevates her status as a jazz great.

Members Reviews:

A beautifully crafted bio of a brilliant 20th century musical legend

Bravo to Elaine Hayes for bringing us music lovers a masterful, insightful, intelligent look at the life of The Divine Sarah Vaughan,

a truly remarkably gifted, influential and trailblazing vocalist. This scholarly written tome helps explain why with Vaughan's passing

we lost what was a continuing benchmark with which we measure excellence in Jazz singing.

Included here are all the many and significant ups, downs and difficulties she endured which however makes even more remarkable how her musical excellence and creativity never dimmed until unfortunate illness caught up with her.

While Sarah was surely very comfortable in the " Jazz" realm especially as Hayes points out, she was an integral part of the

Bebop revolution of the early mid '40s, she hated being pigeonholed into any particular category as she loved singing everything.

Vaughan would be really pleased to read Opera critic and expert James Jorden's recent review of Bellini's famous opera " Norma".

In describing how this classical masterpiece requires extreme vocal dexterity and sensitivity, he alludes to Vaughan's highly sophisticated

abilities in tandem with the Opera greats. How remarkable for this Jazz Singer Super Heroine to be so highly regarded and praised in this classical milieu! Many Kudos to Ms Hayes and Viva Vaughan !

Every great singer deserves a book like this.

Really nicely done.

On the surface it's a pretty typical story and in Vaughan's case. almost boring than usual: Girl has talent. Girl works hard and makes it big. Picks really bad men. Drinks too much. Survives.

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Title: Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical

Author: Robert L. McLaughlin

Narrator: David Stifel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, has established him as the preeminent composer/lyricist of his, if not all, time.

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein - style musical that had dominated Broadway stages for 20 years to a new postmodern musical. This new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity.

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.

The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.

Critic Reviews:

"Will surely be required reading for students and scholars of modern musical theatre." (Robert Gordon, University of London)

"A must-read for any Sondheim lover." (Christianne Tisdale, acclaimed theater, film, and television actress)

"An astonishing achievement." (Peter Filichia, author of

Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season, 1959 to 2009)

Members Reviews:

Stephen Sondheim

This was a very informative and fun book to listen to.I enjoyed it.David Stifel was the perfect narrator.I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

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Title: In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music

Author: Ben Wynne

Narrator: Kurt von Schmittou

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the 19th century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists - one white, one black - who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music.

At a time when segregation formed impassable lines of demarcation in most areas of southern life, music transcended racial boundaries. Jimmie Rodgers and Charley Patton drew inspiration from musical traditions on both sides of the racial divide, and their songs about hard lives, raising hell, and the hope of better days ahead spoke to white and black audiences alike. Their music reflected the era in which they lived but evoked a range of timeless human emotions. As the invention of the phonograph disseminated traditional forms of music to a wider audience, Jimmie Rodgers gained fame as the "Father of Country Music", while Patton's work eventually earned him the title "King of the Delta Blues."

Patton and Rodgers both died young, leaving behind a relatively small number of recordings. Though neither remains well known to mainstream audiences, the impact of their contributions echoes in the songs of today.

The book is published by Louisiana State University Press.

Critic Reviews:

''With this admirable and instructive book, Wynne adds to and enriches the literature dedicated to these musicians.... Highly recommended.'' (Choice)

''Wynne is to be commended for his passionate, detailed research in an important area of American music history.'' (Journal of Southern History)

''A gripping examination of how the work of Patton, Rodgers and others of the era would come to define so much of popular music in the decades to come.'' (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

Members Reviews:

Bought as a present for my husband. He's enjoying ...

Bought as a present for my husband. He's enjoying the book, although he did say that it's more of a social and cultural history of Mississippi from Reconstruction to the Depression, than it is of music. He gave it a 4-star rating.

Five Stars

Great book. Highly recommended.

Founf In Tune to be True to Name

Found it to be a very well written and researched book. I was not expecting much at first but thought it did a good job of not jut exploring the 2 musicians but also good history of the time period and the region.

Five Stars

Great read!!!

They are nice companions for those interested in roots music

I bought this book for my son, along with the book about Ralph Peer. They are nice companions for those interested in roots music.

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Title: In Their Lives

Subtitle: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs

Author: Andrew Blauner, Paul McCartney

Narrator: Tandy Cronyn, Richard Poe, John Keating, Kevin R. Free, Eva Kaminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of Tune In, an anthology of essays from 30 luminaries about their favorite Beatles songs. Blauner anthologizes essays from 30 authors, actors, and musicians reflecting on their favorite Beatles songs, creating a monument to the enduring impact of the most popular band of all time. The diversity of favorite tracks and the variety of reasons contributors love them speak to the range of the Beatles' song catalog and the power their music still has more than 50 years after they arrived in the United States. The essays explore life at its many stages, from optimistic youth to spiritual awakening to mid-life crises, and how the Beatles' music can be a lifelong soundtrack. Whether listeners remember the Beatles' music as a solace in times of trouble or as a celebration, in their lives, they've loved them all.

Members Reviews:

Think personal essays, w Fab Four as the thread

These essays are not about the Beatles so much (though you do learn a lot about "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields") and not always about song composition (though you do get some analysis, like "I'll be Back" or "Tomorrow Never Knows"). What you get is Beatle songs and the meaning they had in the lives of the writers, just as suggested by the title. Some of these are ver personal, and drift away from the Beatles songs. Others are exquisite mini-memoirs. Some are social commentary, like the"Hester Skelter" piece. And some are just about why somebody likes a Beatles Song, like David Duchovny's "Dear Prudence." I loved it. But I love personal essay writing. I will listen a second and probably third time too.

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Title: Dylan Goes Electric!

Subtitle: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties

Author: Elijah Wald

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, "Like a Rolling Stone". The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world - Dylan's declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation - and one of the defining moments in 20th-century music.

In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political, and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the sixties. Wald delves deep into the folk revival, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide new insights into Dylan's artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever.

Critic Reviews:

"Wald contextualizes the deeply divisive event in illuminating detail...a major contribution to modern musical history." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Dylan Goes Electric: A great American cultural history of the 1960s.

If you are a Dylan devotee, this book is a detailed, readable, objective account of Dylan's life through that famous/infamous night at the Newport Folk Festival. Wald does an excellent job of tracing the times and the people that in sum-total lead to the inevitability of this 20th Century Icon plugging a cord into his guitar. The story articulates: the rise of folk-rock as a synthesis of its foundational forms (including blues), the juxtaposition of Dylan and Pete Seeger leading up to the cultural transformation, and the impact Dylan's music has had on so many musicians (of many genres) who came after him. Only small criticism is that one group, The Grateful Dead, is not mentioned in the discussion, and probably should have been. A great cultural history of the 1960s.

Demythologizing

Wald does what so few writers on popular music manage to do--he offers an historical argument. There is as much here about Pete Seeger and the folk revival scene as there is about Dylan. Reflecting his deep immersion in a variety of source materials, Wald contextualizes Dylan's (in)famous electric kiss-off better than any other writer I've read. In the process, he demythologizes and historicizes it. This is no simple-minded paean to Dylan-the-Genius. Instead, it is a brilliant exposition that illustrates how committed yet precious many of the Newport folkies were, yet also how diffident and careless Robert Zimmerman already was by 1965-66. As befits a truly great book, it offers no easy or definitive answers, and leaves the reader with more questions than when he first opened it.

Elijah Wald is one of the best musicologists I've ever read

Elijah Wald is one of the best musicologists I've ever read. His How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n' Roll is eyeopening, and this history of Dylan's electronic move shows the underlying revolutionary changes that were happening in the mid-1960s.

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Titre: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant lus et commentés par Guillaume Gallienne (Ça peut pas faire de mal 3)

Auteur: Guillaume Gallienne

Narrateur: Guillaume Gallienne

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 2 hrs and 30 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 05-10-17

Éditeur: Gallimard

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Imaginez qu'en un seul lieu soient réunis quatre des principaux écrivains du XIXe siècle et que chacun, dans un style littéraire qui lui est propre, vous transporte en ce siècle étonnant, par la simple magie de la lecture. C'est cela l'effet de réel, ce sentiment soudain comme si vous y étiez. Imaginez que l'un des comédiens les plus doués de sa génération, issu de la Comédie-Française, use de sa formidable voix pour magnifier davantage encore les écrits de Balzac, Flaubert, Zola et Maupassant.

Vous aurez alors le sommaire de ce troisième volume coédité avec France Inter, à partir de l'émission de Guillaume Gallienne "Ça peut pas faire de mal", et plongerez avec délectation dans le roman dit "réaliste".

Guillaume Gallienne est comédien, sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, et producteur de l'émission "Ça peut pas faire de mal" tous les samedis sur France Inter.

©2015 / 2015 France Inter (P)2016 Éditions Gallimard / France Inter

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Title: K-POP 101: Korean Pop Explained Step-by-Step to K-Pop Fans Worldwide

Author: HowExpert Press, Fefe Ho

Narrator: Grace Sin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: HowExpert

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

If you want to learn about K-POP (Korean Pop), then get K-POP 101 now!

Go in-depth about topics even longtime K-pop fans don't really understand. What are "K-pop generations?" "What is the difference between daesang and bonsang?" Find introductions about the major highlights of K-pop as a whole. What are the festivals and events you can look forward to? Hear about the TV shows you can watch for more entertainment. There are variety shows, reality shows, survival competitions and more. Add them to your "to watch list!" Get exposed to the more controversial side of K-pop. The things that most fans don't want to talk about or tell you about.

About the expert:

Fefe is a writer and translator. But more importantly, she has been a K-pop fangirl for almost 10 years. As a trilingual (English, Chinese and Korean), she helps translate interviews, songs and videos for international fans. Other than K-pop, Fefe is also a fan of C-pop singers such as Bii, Leehom Wang and G.E.M Tang. Her favorite authors are Vladimir Nabokov, Laini Taylor and Maggie Stiefvater.