American Entertainment History

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    • Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
    • De: Howard Blum
    • Narrado por: John H. Mayer
    • Duración: 10 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-16-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 196 calificaciones
    • It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air....

    Precio regular: $18.00

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    • Hollywood Legends Series
    • De: Carl Rollyson
    • Narrado por: Neil Reeves
    • Duración: 9 h y 54 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-23-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
    • De: Donald Bogle, John Singleton - foreword, Turner Classic Movies
    • Narrado por: Donald Bogle
    • Duración: 10 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-10-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • The films, the stars, the filmmakers - all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of Blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
    • De: Noah Lefevre
    • Narrado por: Brian Telestai
    • Duración: 11 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-17-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them.

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
    • De: Thomas A. Bogar
    • Narrado por: R.C. Bray
    • Duración: 9 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-04-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 calificaciones
    • April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage, and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded....

    Precio regular: $14.61

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    • Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever
    • De: Geoff Edgers
    • Narrado por: Geoff Edgers
    • Duración: 6 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 calificaciones
    • Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way", Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music....

    Precio regular: $15.75

    • The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
    • De: Paul Alexander
    • Narrado por: Maya Days
    • Duración: 11 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America
    • De: Glenn C. Altschuler
    • Narrado por: Jack Garrett
    • Duración: 9 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-15-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 74 calificaciones
    • The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy - one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
    • De: Nelson George
    • Narrado por: Ron Butler
    • Duración: 9 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-05-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 calificaciones
    • Nelson George's chronicle of Motown Records' rise and fall remains a classic account of an essential American music company and its dynamic founder, Berry Gordy Jr....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land
    • De: Julia Reed, Jon Meecham - foreword
    • Narrado por: Julia Reed, Dan Bittner - introduction
    • Duración: 5 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-31-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 calificaciones
    • In thinking about the South, Julia Reed quotes writer Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Reed, the soul of the South and South Toward Home chronicles her adventures through the highs and lows of Southern life....

    Precio regular: $20.00

    • A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
    • De: Jon Burlingame
    • Narrado por: Paul Woodson
    • Duración: 21 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-28-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles....

    Precio regular: $21.49

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    • Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
    • De: Michael Broyles
    • Narrado por: John McLain
    • Duración: 13 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-20-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s—shaped America's musical future.

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
    • De: Yunte Huang
    • Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
    • Duración: 14 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-03-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • Yunte Huang returns with a portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver. Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom....

    Precio regular: $25.79

    • De: Nelson George
    • Narrado por: Brandon Dirden
    • Duración: 9 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-18-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between Black youth culture and the mass media....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • American Made Music Series
    • De: Mike Smith
    • Narrado por: Wayne M. Lane
    • Duración: 8 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-23-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Smith tells the joyful story of the musicians, the radio DJs, the record labels, and the live venues where jazz not only survived but thrived in the 1960s. In an era marked by turmoil and struggle, popular jazz offered a powerful outlet for joy, resilience, pride, and triumph.

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • The Story of Black Hollywood
    • De: Donald Bogle
    • Narrado por: Flynn Earl Jones
    • Duración: 15 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-28-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • Donald Bogle tells the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning 60 years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many Blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them....

    Precio regular: $29.95

    • Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
    • De: Raymond Arsenault
    • Narrado por: David Crommett
    • Duración: 10 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial....

    Precio regular: $24.95