African American Music History

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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: 09-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • By: Stephon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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    • The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
    • By: Judith Tick
    • Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
    • Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist....

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    • By: Peter Benjaminson, Greil Macus - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In January 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest Black-owned business in the United States....

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    • By: Norma Miller, Evette Jensen
    • Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-2014
    • Language: English
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    • Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir....

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    • The African American Musicians Who Made the King
    • By: Preston Lauterbach
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2025
    • Language: English
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    • A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley’s music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked artists: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Calvin Newborn.

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    • Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
    • By: Penny M. Von Eschen
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-2018
    • Language: English
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    • At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth....

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    • Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
    • By: Matthew D. Morrison
    • Narrated by: Matthew D. Morrison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century.

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    • A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-Hop
    • By: Lenny Duncan
    • Narrated by: Lenny Duncan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you must understand hip-hop, and Psalms of My People is your guide....

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    • The Making of a Famous Photograph
    • By: Roxane Orgill
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Playful verse captures an iconic moment for American jazz....

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    • Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
    • By: Imani Perry
    • Narrated by: Emil Nicholas Gallina
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2015
    • Language: English
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    • At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip-hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here....

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    • The Autobiography of Clark Terry
    • By: Clark Terry
    • Narrated by: Bill Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2012
    • Language: English
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    • Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time....

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    • Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
    • By: Raymond Arsenault
    • Narrated by: David Crommett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-2013
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial....

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    • Marian Anderson
    • By: Victoria Garrett Jones
    • Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2009
    • Language: English
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    • Victoria Garrett Jones tells Marian Anderson's remarkable story, from Philadelphia's poorest neighborhood to the world's finest concert stages....

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    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs' Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville....

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    • Freedom's Voice
    • By: Denise Lewis Patrick
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Get ready to sing for justice with Mahalia Jackson in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. The books in the VIP series tell the true—and amazing—stories of some of history's greatest trailblazers. Meet the very important people who changed the world....

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