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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Hip to the Trip
- A Cultural History of Route 66
- By: Peter B. Dedek
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Before and since its official closure in 1985, historic US 66 became associated with the deserts, Indians, and cowboys of the Southwest; the "Okies" of the Great Depression; and the millions of vacationers who took to the highway in their streamlined automobiles and found adventure on the open road from the late 1940s to the 1970s.
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What? Rt. 66 is closed? *sniffle*
- By DabOfDarkness on 07-26-15
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Hip to the Trip
- A Cultural History of Route 66
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-13-15
- 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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Being Miss America
- Behind the Rhinestone Curtain
- By: Kate Shindle
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating and insightful history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's "ideal", especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception.
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Well-written and informative!
- By Kindle Customer on 03-09-23
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Being Miss America
- Behind the Rhinestone Curtain
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-10-17
- Language: English
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High
- Drugs, Desire & a Nation of Users
- By: Ingrid Walker
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage moods. A "drug-free America" seems to be a fantasyland that most people don't want to inhabit. High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users asks fundamental questions about US drug policies and social norms.
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Challenging and informative
- By Alex Martinez on 09-30-19
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High
- Drugs, Desire & a Nation of Users
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-05-19
- 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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Lucifer Ascending
- The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture
- By: Bill Ellis
- Narrated by: Marcus D Durham
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as "occult," from commonplace habits such as carrying a rabbit's foot for good luck or using a Ouija board, to more esoteric traditions, such as the use of spell books. In particular, Ellis shows how the occult has been a common element in youth culture for hundreds of years.
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Great material but not narrator
- By Kindle Customer on 10-09-18
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Lucifer Ascending
- The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture
- Narrated by: Marcus D Durham
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-23-16
- Language: English
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Demanding Respect
- The Evolution of the American Comic Book
- By: Paul Lopes
- Narrated by: Robert A K Gonyo
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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How is it that comic books - the once-reviled form of lowbrow popular culture - are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for best-selling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this art and subculture to provide a social history of the American comic book over the last 75 years.
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Demanding Respect
- The Evolution of the American Comic Book
- Narrated by: Robert A K Gonyo
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-29-16
- 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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British Invasion
- The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
- By: Simon Philo
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964, only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for 60% of all recorded music sold in the United States; in 1964 and 1965 British acts occupied the number one position for 52 of the 104 weeks; and from 1964 through to 1970, the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, and more placed more than 130 songs on the American Top Forty.
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American invasion?
- By Steven Gerweck on 04-19-24
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British Invasion
- The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-15-17
- Language: English
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