Cultural Criticism

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    • Why We Tell Stories
    • By: Christopher Booker
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • A Cultural History
    • By: James Fox
    • Narrated by: James Fox
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The subject of this audiobook is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour....

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    • A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • All the Beauty in the World is a moving, revelatory portrait of one of the world's great museums and its treasures by someone whose value is often overlooked: the museum guard....

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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: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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....

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    • The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
    • By: Robert Gordon
    • Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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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: 28-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
    • By: Richard Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Chris Murphy
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A frank and intimate exploration of Miles Davis' eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression....

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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: 08-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • 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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    • By: James Stourton
    • Narrated by: Jot Davies
    • Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kenneth Clark was the grandest figure in the arts in Britain in the 20th century. Museum director, patron, pioneer of television, cultural panjandrum, he dominated the art world for half a century....

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    • Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
    • By: Elijah Wald
    • Narrated by: Mela Lee
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
    • By: Donald Clarke
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Rita Moreno
    • Narrated by: Rita Moreno
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
    • By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Natalie Duke
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-2023
    • Language: English
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    • From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that have us laughing in stitches, drag has played a vital role in the creative life of New York City....

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    • The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    • By: Dru Jeffries
    • Narrated by: Robert Eckrich
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The millions of fans who watch World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) programs each year are well aware of their role in building the narrative of the sport....

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