American Entertainment History

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    • A History
    • By: Jeremy Dauber
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through comics’ progress in the 20th century and beyond....

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    • The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
    • By: James Campion
    • Narrated by: Stephen Borne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Shout It Out Loud is a serious examination of the circumstance and serendipity that fused the creation of the band's seminal work, Destroyer....

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    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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    • The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
    • By: Ted Gioia
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the 19th century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, Delta Blues tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music....

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    • An Oral History of the Comedy Club That Revolutionized Stand-Up
    • By: Budd Friedman, Tripp Whetsell, Jay Leno - foreword
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In 1963, 30-year-old Friedman - who had recently quit a job as a Boston advertising executive and came to New York to become a theatrical producer - opened a coffee house for Broadway performers....

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    • The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we learn how the American theater serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society....

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    • Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
    • By: Alissa Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Alissa Wilkinson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking.

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Dick Gregory, Dr. Christian Gregory - introduction, Robert Lipsyte
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Dr. Christian Gregory
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,305 ratings
    • Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America....

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    • A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
    • By: Heather Greene
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television....

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    • How the Swampers Changed American Music
    • By: Carla Jean Whitley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers"....

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
    • By: Kliph Nesteroff
    • Narrated by: Kliph Nesteroff
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 577 ratings
    • Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts....

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    • By: Nelson George
    • Narrated by: Brandon Dirden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series The Get Down, this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of Black music in the last 50 years....

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    • Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
    • By: Dale Cockrell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's 70-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City....

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