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 93 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 9 ratings
    • Beginning Theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades....

    Regular price: $24.02

    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....

    Regular price: $17.09

    • 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 248 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....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 74 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....

    Regular price: $34.39

    • 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 574 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 41 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"....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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 131 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....

    Regular price: $24.04

    • The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
    • By: Robert Gordon
    • Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon’s widely praised biography....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • 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 17 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 150 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....

    Regular price: $33.74

    • The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
    • By: Sarah Hart
    • Narrated by: Sarah Hart
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Once Upon a Prime explores the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • 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 468 ratings
    • In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 318 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.

    Regular price: $14.99

    • 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 146 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.

    Regular price: $22.50

    • 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 8 ratings
    • A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • 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 25 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.

    Regular price: $25.19

    • 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 139 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....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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 277 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....

    Regular price: $11.24

    • 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
    • By: Joan Morgan
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the acclaimed and influential debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill with this eye-opening and moving exploration of Lauryn Hill and her remarkable artistic legacy....

    Regular price: $11.24