African Art 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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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2003
    • Language: English
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    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • Art History for Kids | Children's Art Books
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Ancient African art is history, culture and tradition fused into one. Studying art will provide a glimpse into the culture and belief systems of a civilization. It also tells a lot about tradition. Yes, there’s more to art than meets the eye....

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    • In Praise of Black Performance
    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • An electrifying celebration of Black performances, cultures and communities in the United States....

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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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    • James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
    • By: Nicholas Buccola
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A remarkable story of race and the American dream, The Fire Is upon Us reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of a conflict that continues to haunt our politics....

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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: Julius Lester
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. Julius Lester has written a story that places each of us squarely inside the skin of both slave and slave owner. It will capture the heart of every listener....

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    • Writing the Race
    • By: Henry Louis Gates Jr
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2019
    • Language: English
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    • With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes....

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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 Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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    • American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
    • By: Adilifu Nama
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon....

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    • The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist
    • By: Martin Duberman
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson - one of the most important public figures in the 20th century - adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson biographer....

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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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