Cultural Criticism

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    • 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock
    • By: Ed Ward
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Series: The History of Rock & Roll, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Ed Ward weaves together an pause-resisting narrative told through colorful anecdotes and shares the behind-the-scenes stories of the megastars, the trailblazers, DJs, record executives, concert promoters, and producers who were at the forefront of this incredible period in music history....

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    • Engaged Cultural Criticism
    • By: Bell Hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Homegrown, cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture, inviting listeners to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative....

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    • An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory: Fourth Edition
    • By: Peter Barry
    • Narrated by: Lucy Scott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Beginning Theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades....

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    • Why We Tell Stories
    • By: Christopher Booker
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world....

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 562 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • Notes on Modern Irrationality
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Amanda Montell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

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    • Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good
    • By: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Christians have misused Scripture to consolidate power, stoke fears, and defend against enemies. But people who have been hurt by the attacks of Christian nationalism can help us rediscover God's vision for faith in public life....

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    • Notes in Praise of Black Performance
    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture....

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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • By: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Rita Moreno
    • Narrated by: Rita Moreno
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 456 ratings
    • In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend....

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    • How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
    • By: Larry Tye
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie.

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    • Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
    • By: 50 Cent
    • Narrated by: Kris Ex
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens is a violent and introspective memoir that reveals not only 50 Cent's story but the story of a generation....

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    • Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
    • By: Alex Ross
    • Narrated by: Alex Ross
    • Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Alex Ross reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence....

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    • Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
    • By: Erich Schwartzel
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies....

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    • Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
    • By: Richard Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Only in America is the probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer.

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    • The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
    • By: Donald Clarke
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues....

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    • How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
    • By: William Deresiewicz
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work - the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies - from an award-winning essayist and critic....

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    • Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
    • By: Elijah Wald
    • Narrated by: Mela Lee
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz....

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