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Title: When the World Stopped to Listen

Subtitle: Van Cliburns Cold War Triumph and Its Aftermath

Author: Stuart Isacoff, Claire Bloom - director

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

April of 1958 - the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the outcome of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition seemed preordained. Nonetheless, as star musicians from across the globe descended on Moscow, an unlikely favorite emerged: Van Cliburn, a polite, lanky Texan whose passionate virtuosity captured the Russian spirit.

This is the story of what unfolded that spring - for Cliburn and the other competitors, jurors, party officials, and citizens of the world who were touched by the outcome. It is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most remarkable events in musical history, filled with political intrigue and personal struggle as artists strove for self-expression and governments jockeyed for prestige. And, at the core of it all: the value of artistic achievement, the supremacy of the heart, and the transcendent freedom that can be found, through music, even in the darkest moments of human history.

Members Reviews:

Inspirational biography of Van Cliburn

I am not a musician, nor a classical music devotee; I remembered the name of Van Cliburn, and am glad I read this book.

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Title: Just Around Midnight

Subtitle: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

Author: Jack Hamilton

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic-and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of "authenticity" have blinded us to rock's inextricably interracial artistic enterprise.

According to the standard storyline, the authentic white musician was guided by an individual creative vision, whereas black musicians were deemed authentic only when they stayed true to black tradition. Serious rock became white because only white musicians could be original without being accused of betraying their race. Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.

Members Reviews:

So much of popular music in the US revolves around ...

So much of popular music in the US revolves around how listeners and musicians make sense of a defining conflict in American society: race. Hamilton shows how this played out in the production of some of the most memorable music in the country's recorded history. Fantastically written, with astounding new facts and insights about artists and songs you thought you knew. Made me listen to Gaye, Cooke, Dylan, and The Beatles, amongst others, as if for the first time.

thought-provoking and well-written book

This book exposes a very interesting aspect of cultural history -- how rock and roll went from black to white. It's well written, full of examples that indicate the author's deep knowledge of the music and the times. Would be of special interest to those aging Boomers who lived through it all!

Excellent

A study in white appropriation of black music and, in turn, of African America's legacy in American popular music. A great read. Highly recommend!

Challenge the categories and assumptions we've made regarding our favorite musicians from the 1960s!

This book did a great job of placing some of my favorite 1960's musicians in their own complicated and changing times. Even more, it helped me think more deeply about the most commonly accepted stories that music fans have told ourselves about the race and artistic decisions of these icons. It is full of provoking anecdotes that give insight into how the musicians themselves thought of themselves and their work, which often challenges how we came to imagine them and categorize them in the decades that followed.

Most importantly though âJust Around Midnightâ is a book about songs. Jack Hamilton looks bar-by-bar (often chord-by-chord) at some of our favorite songs including a breakdown of "Gimme Shelter" in the last chapter that I had to re-read after I dug up the track on my iPod and listened to it in it's entirety.

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Title: Gold Experience

Subtitle: Following Prince in the 90s

Author: Jim Walsh

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artist - and made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully, exhaustively. Here, in real-time, is that coverage: a look back at Prince in the '90s. Walsh's newly unearthed interviews, essays, columns, and reviews make Gold Experience an essential slice of history for fans, scholars, and latecomers to the Minneapolis-born musical genius Prince Rogers Nelson.

Join Walsh at the 1994 NBA All-Star game afterparty and release bash for the single "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". Accompany him to the after-hours clubs Erotic City, Glam Slam, and, of course, Paisley Park. Meet Prince's wife and bandmate Mayte (and while you're at it, take in the wedding and reception and enjoy a two-hour sit-down interview with Prince). This is Prince as few have seen him, reported as only Jim Wash can: a portrait of the artist from a dizzying array of angles, captured in living color for all time.

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Title: Practice Music Like a Pro

Subtitle: How to Get Really Good Really Fast

Author: Stan Munslow

Narrator: Stan Munslow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-16

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever wondered how great musicians get that way? Would you like to get more practicing done in less time and grow your talent to the highest level possible?

Berklee-degreed 30-year veteran musician/instructor Stan Munslow has culled together six powerful, proven practice strategies used by the world's top players that will give you a lifetime of life smarts that will save you countless hours of time no matter what style of music you play or what level you're at. Even school band musicians will benefit from these easy-to-follow techniques.

Stan Munslow is a Rhode Island-based musician, writer, and instructor with over 25 years' experience both onstage and backstage. He holds a BM from Berklee College of Music and has been leading musicians, professional and amateur alike, onto the stage since 1981.

Members Reviews:

Really constructive advice

Really constructive advice on music practice in a short amount of time. Highly recommended audiobook!

Short little refresh on practice

There are longer books on the art of practice on Audible. This has similar content but distilled into six nuggets. You know: practice slowwwwly, break up what you are learning into smaller bits.

What is nice is that the author narrows the whole science/art of practice into these six concepts you can take action on immediately. Esp. Good for those new to an instrument or who have been at it a couple years and are frustrated at the slow pace of progess.

Audio is a tad scrappy but okay for short book.

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Title: How to Play Advanced Bass Guitar

Subtitle: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Playing Advanced Bass Guitar

Author: HowExpert Press

Narrator: Todd Eflin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-16

Publisher: HowExpert

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Want to know more about music? Want to learn awesome new bass playing techniques? Want to play songs without wasting your time looking for tabs on the net? If your answer is yes, then this is the right guide for you!

In this audiobook, we will help you understand music theory. This audiobook also includes popular advanced bass techniques:

You don't have to go to expensive music schools to understand the music theory and scales!

You can now play like a pro!

This book is what you need if you want to know more about music and your bass. This book also uses simple terminologies so that it will be easier for you to follow and understand. If you are ready to be a full-fledged musician and bassist, it's time for you to grab a copy of our book. Download now!

Members Reviews:

I love Kindle but.....................

The book is ok but any Kindle book that I have that needs to be enlarged doesn't work for me. The book has pictures which will not enlarge so there should be a way to print these pages. It is a good book and is worth having at the price but be aware of the limitations. You can use cloud reader and it makes the illustration easy to see. There would still be an advantage to be able to print the scales and diagrams however.

Art In Motion

Awesome deal,very simple . You must be studious and serious or nothing will work.

I am completely satisfied.

I am completely satisfied. This is the very best I have bought. I do not regret my money . this is an investment.

Five Stars

Awesome! !

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Title: Anatomy of a Song

Subtitle: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Author: Marc Myers

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Part artist confessional, part musical analysis, Anatomy of a Song ranges from the Isley Brothers' "Shout" to Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz" to R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion".

After being discharged from the army in 1968, John Fogerty does a handstand and revises Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to come up with "Proud Mary". Joni Mitchell remembers living in a cave on Crete with the "mean old daddy" who inspired her 1971 hit "Carey". Elvis Costello talks about writing "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" in 10 minutes on the train to Liverpool. Mick Jagger, Jimmy Cliff, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, and many other leading artists reveal for the first time the emotions, inspirations, and techniques behind their influential works. Covering the history of rock, R&B, country, disco, soul, reggae, and pop, Anatomy of a Song is a love letter to the songs that have defined generations of listeners.

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Title: Shock and Awe

Subtitle: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century

Author: Simon Reynolds

Narrator: Nicholas Camm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania - "the foremost popular music critic of this era" (Times Literary Supplement) - comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop.

Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late '60s, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early '70s, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien makeup, thrilling music, and larger-than-life personas.

Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it in the wider '70s context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre's major themes - stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse - Reynolds tracks glam's legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from '80s art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to 21st-century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists' obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.

Members Reviews:

Shock and Awe: excellent

Not only is the book excellent but the reading by Nicholas Camm is outstanding.

The last chapter on David Bowie's final years and influence is moving and essential.

Thank you Simon, Nicholas and Audible for bringing this to us.

Cheers

Kevin

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Title: I Killed Pink Floyds Pig

Subtitle: Inside Stories of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll

Author: Beau Phillips, Sammy Hagar - introduction

Narrator: Beau Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig is an all-access behind-the-scenes VIP tour of when rock was great, courtesy of Beau Phillips, a respected radio programmer and former head of marketing at MTV.

Phillips was an insider and occasional accomplice who witnessed the legends of classic rock in their heyday and takes listeners inside the dressing rooms, hotel suites, and private planes of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and dozens more to enjoy funny, decadent, and never-been-told stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

The book's foreword was written by Sammy Hagar, former lead singer for Van Halen. He and Phillips met in the late 1970s, early in Hagar's career. Sammy wrote, "Beau has seen all of the rock and roll craziness - and his book is loaded with amazing stories."

Members Reviews:

Questionable Credibility

Artimus Pyle is not dead. He is alive and well, and has a band! Poor fact checking on Mr. Phillips part.

Disappointing

Beau Phillips celebrates the dubious heroism of self entitled rock stars with drug-fuzzy brains throwing TVs out of hotel rooms and insulting disabled fans, all admiringly described by the author in the words of a pubertal boy. If you are 15 years old and aspire to these kind of stunts, then this book may hold some inspirations for you. Everybody else will probably not get past the first chapter.

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Title: The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000

Subtitle: A Personal Retrospective

Author: Thomas W. Jacobsen

Narrator: David Randall Hunter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age". Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident and longtime jazz aficionado, offers a wide-ranging history of the New Orleans jazz renaissance in the last three decades of the twentieth century, weaving local musical developments into the larger context of the national jazz scene.

Jacobsen vividly evokes the changing face of the New Orleans jazz world at the close of the twentieth century. Drawing from an array of personal experiences and his own exhaustive research, he discusses leading musicians and bands, both traditionalists and modernists, as well as major performance venues and festivals. The city's musical infrastructure does not go overlooked, as Jacobsen delves into New Orleans's music business, its jazz media, and the evolution of jazz education at public schools and universities. The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 offers a vibrant and fascinating portrait of the musical genre that defines New Orleans.

Members Reviews:

An indepth look of a formlative period of music in New Orleans.

A great look at a formative period in jazz edication in New Orleans. Both established musicians and young up and coming performers are covered. As a university professor during that time, I especially appreciated Jacobsen's handling of music teachers during that period.

Five Stars

Very interesting and gave me lots of information about the groups in New Orleans..

Fascinating

A highly readable and informative review of the Jazz scene in Nola by a writer who knows it inside and out.

Five Stars

As listed, fast ship, thanks

The book covers very well the 60's and 70's traditional ...

The book covers very well the 60's and 70's traditional jazz environment in New Orleans and discusses my concern--the rise in the progressive styles and decline in traditional styles .

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Title: The Zapple Diaries

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label

Author: Barry Miles

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

This is the first full-length look at Zapple - The Beatles' label for experimental music and spoken word recordings, and the most ambitious expression of the group's determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Barry Miles, the acclaimed author, was the Zapple label manager and has written an engaging and slightly gossipy you-are-there review of this fascinating period in Beatles history. The book provides insight into the lives and working methods of leading literary and cultural figures of the time, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, William Burroughs, and Frank Zappa. The Zapple Diaries is the fascinating story of an ill-fated experimental venture and a revealing account of the little-known last chapter of Beatles history.

Members Reviews:

More Beat Generation than Beatles

Zapple Records, when mentioned, is usually brought up as a footnote in the Beatles story, known for releasing two unlistenable solo albums and quickly folding. I've always been suspicious as with everything related to Apple Corp, the original intent was much more grandiose, and it turns out it was. While proposed spoken word recordings by world leaders and more avant grade sounds never happened, a whole series of recordings from important beat and countercouture writers were actually taped, though never released through Zapple.

Barry Miles was a friend of Paul's who most famously started the Indica Gallery, where John and Yoko met, and the International Times newspaper. He became the man in charge of Zapple due to his relationship with McCartney, who was most enthusiastic about the project, and his contacts in the literary world. Despite two trips Miles took to the US recording authors, the project was doomed from the beginning, initially due to the Beatles lack of business direction, then due to the presence of Alan Klein and his cost cutting measures.

The Zapple Diaries (which aren't a diary) is a quick read, but it's really a short period of time covered here. The actual label was discontinued less than two months after it's first release. If you're into counterculture and beat literature of the 60s, there's a lot here that you're going to enjoy and you'll probably be a little sad things didn't work out like planned.

My only issues with the book were that there were some details that an editor should have caught such as incorrect release dates of things and Ran Blake's name misspelled but more importantly, I would have liked to have seen a discography of where these recordings ended up, as it seems almost all of them were released in some form or another. The first is easier to overlook, but the second is a little more of a disappointment and a missed opportunity.

I also feel it's worth mentioning that if you are strictly a Beatles fan and have no interest at all in literature, this isn't the book for you. Yes, there's stuff in here about Apple and how that was running into the ground, but it is presented in context to the Zapple story.