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With Amusement for All
- A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
- By: LeRoy Ashby
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 33 hrs and 40 mins
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With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment in the United States, covering everything from the penny press to Playboy, the NBA to NASCAR, big band to hip hop, and other topics including film, comics, television, sports, and music. Paying careful attention to matters of race, gender, class, economics, and politics, LeRoy Ashby emphasizes the complex ways in which popular culture simultaneously reflects and transforms American culture.
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So Much Fun!
- By Paul on 11-28-13
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With Amusement for All
- A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 33 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-03-13
- Language: English
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The Joker
- A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
- By: Robert Moses Peaslee - editor, Robert G. Weiner - editor
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today.
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Great novel. Very detailed.
- By Anonymous User on 08-24-23
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The Joker
- A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-30-23
- Language: English
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UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens
- What Science Says
- By: Donald R. Prothero, Timothy D. Callahan
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape.
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Skeptical and entertaining
- By zaaz on 04-20-20
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UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens
- What Science Says
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-26-19
- Language: English
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Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine
- Popular Culture and Philosophy
- By: Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, William Irwin
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral development and corruption to religious faith and pragmatism, forgiveness and redemption, and many others.
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Not as insightful as I hoped
- By C M A Bazzoli on 08-17-19
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Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine
- Popular Culture and Philosophy
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-14-19
- Language: English
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The West Wing: TV Milestones
- By: Janet McCabe
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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This audiobook explores how the award-winning NBC drama offered a space for vibrant conversation about US politics, identity, and culture.
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Just say no
- By Chris Power on 10-03-18
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The West Wing: TV Milestones
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-07-13
- Language: English
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M*A*S*H
- TV Milestones
- By: David Scott Diffrient
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 4 hrs
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Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues. By the end of its run, M*A*S*H had been a mainstream hit for several seasons and won fourteen Emmys, leading it to be called, "the most popular pre-Seinfeld series in television history." In this comprehensive study of M*A*S*H, David Scott Diffrient analyzes the series' contextual issues such as its creation, reception, and circulation as well as textual issues like its formal innovations, narrative strategies, and themes.
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M*A*S*H
- TV Milestones
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 05-11-13
- Language: English
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Listen to This
- Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
- By: Victor Svorinich
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis' watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for 10-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African-American consciousness.
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Very thorough
- By Dave McElfresh on 04-06-19
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Listen to This
- Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-16-16
- Language: English
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Voices in the Code
- A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
- By: David G. Robinson
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Algorithms—rules written into software—shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public school, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits. Such decisions are both technical and moral. Today, the logic of high stakes software is rarely open to scrutiny, and central moral questions are often left for the technical experts to answer.
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Voices in the Code
- A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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Monsters on Maple Street
- The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream
- By: David J. Brokaw
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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The media of the 1950s and 1960s promoted an idealized version of American life sustained by the nuclear family and bolstered by a booming consumer economy. The seemingly wholesome and simple lifestyles portrayed on television screens, however, belied a torrent of social, economic, and political struggles occurring at the time. By the late 1950s, television writers were increasingly constrained to distract audiences from confronting counternarratives to the Dream.
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Monsters on Maple Street
- The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-21-24
- Language: English
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The 60s Communes
- Hippies and Beyond
- By: Timothy Miller
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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The greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture apart from the established society. Widely believed by the larger public to be sinks of drug-ridden sexual immorality, the communes both intrigued and repelled the American people.
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opened my eyes a little well done and thanks
- By paul r. on 10-20-16
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The 60s Communes
- Hippies and Beyond
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-01-16
- Language: English
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Hope in a Jar
- The Making of America's Beauty Culture
- By: Kathy Peiss
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic", as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture.
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About Female Entrepreneurship at its Core
- By Katie on 03-10-18
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Hope in a Jar
- The Making of America's Beauty Culture
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-11-13
- Language: English
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The Cards
- The Evolution and Power of Tarot
- By: Patrick Maille
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance, and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. This audiobook is an extensive history of the development and evolution of Tarot, and its place in culture. It begins with an extensive review from its roots as a game, to its supposed connection to ancient Egyptian magic; through its place in secret societies, and to its current use in meditation and psychology.
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The Cards
- The Evolution and Power of Tarot
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-31-22
- Language: English
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Devouring Cultures
- Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey
- By: Cammie M. Sublette, Jennifer Martin
- Narrated by: Robin Roach
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Devouring Cultures brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity. The essays in Devouring Cultures show how our choices about what we eat, where we eat, and with whom we eat are linked to identity and meaning.
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Devouring Cultures
- Perspectives on Food, Power, and Identity from the Zombie Apocalypse to Downton Abbey
- Narrated by: Robin Roach
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-24-16
- Language: English
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Of Comics and Men
- A Cultural History of American Comic Books
- By: Jean-Paul Gabilliet
- Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form.
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One of the worst narrators of all time
- By Karrie L. on 03-12-24
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Of Comics and Men
- A Cultural History of American Comic Books
- Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-15-17
- Language: English
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The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
- By: Victoria Vantoch
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs
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In the years after World War II, the airline stewardess became one of the most celebrated symbols of American womanhood. Stewardesses appeared on magazine covers, on lecture circuits, and in ad campaigns for everything from milk to cigarettes. Airlines enlisted them to pose for publicity shots, mingle with international dignitaries, and even serve (in sequined minidresses) as the official hostesses at Richard Nixon's inaugural ball. Embodying mainstream America's perfect woman, the stewardess was an ambassador of femininity and the American way both at home and abroad.
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Not what I expected
- By Anonymous User on 03-18-21
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The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 11-01-13
- Language: English
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
- TV Milestones
- By: Marcia Landy
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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One of the most innovative comedic programs to air on television, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a mix of the carnivalesque and the critical. The show has become famous for eschewing many of the conventions of situation comedy, the fully formed and coherent script, narrative closure, predictable characters, and the decorum associated with presentation.
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Fun for Monty fans
- By Darryl on 05-02-13
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
- TV Milestones
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-30-13
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Sideshows
- By: Joe Nickell
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly if ever given up by performers and carnival professionals.
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Very entertaining nostalgic book!
- By Dana on 02-19-16
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Secrets of the Sideshows
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-18-15
- Language: English
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The Making of John Lennon
- By: Francis Kenny
- Narrated by: Thomas Cassidy
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Despite the nearly universal fame of the Beatles, many people only know the fairytale version of the iconic group’s rise to fame. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Liverpool, Francis Kenny reveals the real John Lennon who preceded the legend, showing how his childhood shaped his personality, creative process, and path to success, and how it also destroyed his mental health, leading to the downfall of one of the most confident and brilliant musicians of the past century.
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THE BEST LENNON AUDIOBOOK
- By Victoria Eugene on 03-25-20
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The Making of John Lennon
- Narrated by: Thomas Cassidy
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-16-20
- Language: English
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Last Man Standing
- Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
- By: James Curtis
- Narrated by: Mark Milroy
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
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On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged - Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols, and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, Dick Gregory, Woody Allen, and the Smothers Brothers, among others.
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Vintage Mort Saul. One of a kind.
- By Michael Grant White on 02-17-23
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Last Man Standing
- Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
- Narrated by: Mark Milroy
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-17-19
- Language: English
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Tearing the World Apart
- Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century (American Made Music Series)
- By: Nina Goss - editor, Eric Hoffman - editor
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Bob Dylan is many things to many people. Each Bob Dylan joins a collective cast that has made up his persona for more than 50 years. No version of Dylan turns out uncomplicated, but the postmillennial manifestation seems peculiarly contrary - a tireless and enterprising antiquarian; a creator of singular texts and sounds through promiscuous poaching; an artist of innovation and uncanny renewal. The collection of essays does justice to this difficult Bob Dylan by examining his method and effects through a disparate set of viewpoints.
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Insightful looks into a true poet's work.
- By Leslie on 10-25-18
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Tearing the World Apart
- Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century (American Made Music Series)
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-22-18
- Language: English
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