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  American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min

  Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams' blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be. American Rhapsody offers a history of 20th-century American invention and genius. It is about the joy and profit of being a heterogeneous people and the immense difficulty of this human experiment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009460/bk_reco_009460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Schottland: Einsamkeit in angenehmer Dosis

  Die Nähe zur beeindruckenden Natur, die bewegte Geschichte und das Bewusstsein, schottisch und nicht englisch zu sein, sind auf dieser Reise durch Schottland allgegenwärtig. Um Schottland und die Schotten zu verstehen, startet dieses Hörbuch mit dem Dichter Robert Burns und seinen Lobgesang auf das Nationalgericht Haggis, einen gefüllten Schafsmagen. Weiter geht es auf die Insel Arran, wo die robusten schottischen Blackface-Schafe die baumarmen Weidegebiete bevölkern, und auf die Halbinsel Kintyre, deren Kap einst Paul McCartney besang.In den zentralen Highlands durchqueren wir zu Fuß und im Kanu den Cairngorms National Park und entdecken die Abgeschiedenheit der Grampian Mountains mit dunklen Seen, unzugänglichen Mooren und dichten Wäldern. Am Fluss Spey lernen wir die Geschichte der schottischen Whiskybrennerei und die Geruchsvielfalt der Single Malts kennen. Wild und stürmisch wird es im Westen Schottlands, wo der Atlantik die Küste umtost. Hier beeindrucken die Torridon Hills ebenso wie die Hochmoore der Äußeren Hebriden im Atlantik. Unweit der schottischen Nordküste auf den Orkney Inseln endet diese Reise bei freiem Blick aufs Meer. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.

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  News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1258min

  Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to - and every so often, combated - racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies.The writing is fast-paced, story-driven, and replete with memorable portraits of individual journalists and media executives, both famous and obscure, heroes and villains. It weaves back and forth between the corporate and government leaders who built our segregated media system - such as Herbert Hoover, whose Federal Radio Commission eagerly awarded a license to a notorious Ku Klux Klan organization in the nation’s capital - and those who rebelled against that system, like Pittsburgh Courier publisher Robert L. Vann, who led a remarkable national campaign to get the blackface comedy Amos ’n’ Andy off the air.Based on years of original archival research and up-to-the-minute reporting and written by two veteran journalists and leading advocates for a more inclusive and democratic media system, News for All the People should become the standard history of American media. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juan Gonzalez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/056717/bk_adbl_056717_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Amos 'n' Andy Show, Vol. 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 321min

  Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll made their radio debut on January 12, 1926, as the comedic blackface characters Sam 'n' Henry. On March 19, 1928, they introduced Amos 'n' Andy, which went on to become one of the most popular and longest-running programs in radio history. During the height of its popularity, almost the entire country listened to the fifteen-minute, Monday-through-Friday adventures of Amos and Andy. Department stores open in the evening piped in the broadcasts so shoppers wouldn't miss an episode; movie theaters scheduled their features to end just prior to the start of Amos 'n' Andy so they too could pipe it in. The characters were members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge, of which George Stevens was "the Kingfish." Amos and Andy ran the Fresh-Air Taxi Company, with the more stable, married Amos doing most of the work while Andy chased girls. One of the best-remembered sequences was the time Andy almost married Madame Queen. In 1943, after 4,091 quarter-hour episodes, it switched to a half-hour weekly comedy. While the five-a-week show often had a quiet, easygoing feeling, the new version was a brassy Hollywood-style production, complete with studio audience, full cast of supporting actors, and full orchestra. Many of the half-hour programs were written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, later the writing team for Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters. In the new version, Amos became a minor character to the more dominant Andy and Kingfish duo. The new Amos 'n' Andy Show endured for the next twelve years as one of the most popular weekly programs on radio. Language: English. Narrator: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006522/bk_blak_006522_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Emmett Miller: An Obscure Minstrel Yodeler Who Changed Music Forever , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min

  One of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of popular music is that of Emmett Miller. He helped define the popular music of the last 75 years, and for the most part, today he is all but forgotten. Emmett Miller left many legacies which influenced the American musical landscape for generations. Certainly his singing style - the odd nasal pitch tone, along with the breaking of lines and bars in a song to a high yodel-like yelp - has been imitated by scores of singers since Miller first waxed his signature style to record in 1924. Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, Lefty Fritzell, the Rhythm Wreckers, Bob Wills, Woody Guthrie, Howlin' Wolf, and Bob Dylan all have been influenced by Miller's one-of-a-kind vocal abilities. Of equal importance was Miller's visionary fusion of blues and jazz, country and swing, black and white, comedy and crooning.Whether he knew what he was doing at the time or not, Miller almost single-handedly tore down the strict boundaries of musical ideas of the era. Here was a young, white, Christian man from the south, singing hot-jazz and black music in the north. Performing as a blackface with some of the most influential jazz musicians of all time (Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Eddie Lang, Jack Teagarden, and more). He created an entirely new style of country: pop. Country which swung. Country that was equally parts white and black, urban and rural. Country that was slurred through whiskey, girls, the road, and came out as the earliest forms of beatnik jive. Listening to Miller's music today, one can hear the startling sound of a man perfectly in sync with the present: he's influenced by the past, while he anticipated what was coming just around the bend. For fans of music history, musicology, americana, country music, hillbilly, minstrelsy and vaudeville. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Norton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168670/bk_acx0_168670_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Amos 'n' Andy Show, Vol. 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 327min

  Here are 12 more episodes of the antics of Amos, Andy, and the Kingfish, along with guest stars, including Jack Benny, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and "Wizard of Oz" Frank Morgan. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll made their radio debut on January 12, 1926, as the comedic blackface characters Sam 'n' Henry. On March 19, 1928, they introduced Amos 'n' Andy, which went on to become one of the most popular and longest-running programs in radio history. During the height of its popularity, almost the entire country tuned in to their adventures. The characters were members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge, of which George Stevens was "the Kingfish." Amos and Andy ran the Fresh-Air Taxi Company, with the more stable, married Amos doing most of the work while Andy chased girls. In 1943, after 4,091 quarter-hour episodes, it switched to a half-hour weekly comedy. Many of the half-hour programs were written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, later the writing team for Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters. Amos 'n' Andy became a nightly disc-jockey program from 1954 to 1960. It later was the basis for a comic strip, a television show, and a film. Included here are the following half-hour episodes: CD 1. "Nieces" (11/04/1933); "Employment Agency" with guests Jack Benny and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson CD 2. "DeWitt (11/17/1944); "Cleaning Fluid" with guests Hugh Herbert and Adolphe Menjou (11/14/1944) CD 3. "Fountain Pen" (12/01/1944); "Brazilian Brass" with guest Frank Morgan (12/08/1944) CD 4. "Andy Fakes Suicide" (12/15/1944); "Christmas Show" (12/22/1944) CD 5. "New Year's Show" (01/29/1944); "Victor Moore Show" with guest Victor Moore (01/05/1945) CD 6. "George Washington Desk" (01/12/1945); "Adoption Show" (01/19/1945) Language: English. Narrator: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009157/bk_blak_009157_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min

  From best-selling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present. In the early '60s, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first time, the best of Trillin's pieces on race in America have been collected in one volume. In the title essay of Jackson, 1964, we experience Trillin's riveting coverage of the pathbreaking voter registration drive known as the Mississippi Summer Project - coverage that includes an unforgettable airplane conversation between Martin Luther King, Jr., and a young white man sitting across the aisle. ("I'd like to be loved by everyone," King tells him, "but we can't always wait for love.") In the years that follow, Trillin rides along with the National Guard units assigned to patrol black neighborhoods in Wilmington, Delaware; reports on the case of a black homeowner accused of manslaughter in the death of a white teenager in an overwhelmingly white Long Island suburb; and chronicles the remarkable fortunes of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a black carnival krewe in New Orleans whose members parade on Mardi Gras in blackface. He takes on issues that are as relevant today as they were when he wrote about them. Excessive sentencing is examined in a 1970 piece about a black militant in Houston serving 30 years in prison for giving away one marijuana cigarette. The role of race in the use of deadly force by police is highlighted in a 1975 article about an African American shot by a white policeman in Seattle. Uniting all these pieces are Trillin's unflinching eye and graceful prose. Jackson, 1964 is an indispensable account of a half-century of race and racism in America, through the lens of a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass, Calvin Trillin - introduction. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004622/bk_rand_004622_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Don't Wear Silver in the Winter: Remembering My Mother , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min

  Eddie Cantor was a huge star of vaudeville, Broadway, old-time radio, silent movies, and talkies. He was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 1956 for distinguished service to the film industry, in a long career that spanned three decades and such memorable films as Special Delivery, Kid Boots, Whoopee!, and Roman Scandals. One of his earliest paying jobs was as a singing waiter, with Jimmy Durante accompanying him on piano. Florenz Ziegfeld hired him to appear at his rooftop postshow, Midnight Frolic, in 1917. A year later Cantor made his Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1917, often appearing in blackface in an era that popularized Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, and W. C. Fields. After appearing on Broadway for years, he moved into radio in the 1920s. In 1931 he starred in an hour-long Sunday evening variety series that established him as a leading comedian. He also discovered and helped guide the career of singer Dinah Shore, first featuring her on his radio show in 1940, as well as other performers, including Deanna Durbin, Bobby Breen, and Eddie Fisher. Cantor also had a huge song hit in 1934, "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", which sold 400,000 copies by Christmas of that year. Cantor capitalized on the 1929 stock market debacle by writing highly popular best-selling books of humor and cartoons about his experience, including Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street in 1929. You can imagine how often Janet Cantor Gari heard that her mother was inadvertently as funny as her father, the legendary Eddie Cantor, and that she ought to write a book. The result was surprising, even to herself, as she uncovered her true relationship with her mother. Whether Janet is describing situations in her native New York or the nine years she lived in Hollywood, the book is completely candid. You'll casually meet celebrities under circumstances you'd never expect, and you'll empathize ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Gari. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010210/bk_blak_010210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Amos 'n' Andy Show, Vol. 2: Classic Radio Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 317min

  Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll made their radio debut on January 12, 1926, as the comedic, blackface characters Sam 'n' Henry. On March 19, 1928, they introduced Amos 'n' Andy, which went on to become one of the most popular and longest-running programs in radio history. During the height of the show's popularity, almost the entire country listened to the 15-minute adventures of Amos and Andy that aired Monday through Friday. Department stores open in the evening piped in the broadcasts so shoppers wouldn't miss an episode; movie theaters scheduled their features to end just prior to the start of Amos 'n' Andy so they, too, could pipe it in. The characters were members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge, of which George Stevens was "The Kingfish". Amos and Andy ran the Fresh-Air Taxi Company, with the more stable, married Amos doing most of the work while Andy chased girls. In 1943, after 4,091 quarter-hour episodes, it switched to a half-hour weekly comedy. While the five-a-week show often had a quiet, easygoing feeling, the new version was a brassy Hollywood-style production, complete with a studio audience, a full cast of supporting actors, and a full orchestra. Many of the half-hour programs were written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, later the writing team for Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters. In the new version, Amos became a minor character to the more dominant Andy and Kingfish duo. The new Amos 'n' Andy show lasted for the next 12 years as one of radio's most popular weekly programs. Episodes include: "Violets" "Culture" "Diamond Ring" "Sunday, Monday or Always" "Madam Queen, Part 1" "Madam Queen, Part 2" "Insurance, Part 1" "Insurance, Part 2" "Amnesia" "Get Acquainted" "Chauffeur" "Secretary" Language: English. Narrator: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007493/bk_blak_007493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min

  In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right.  The child of proud Louisiana Creole parents who refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, Betty was raised in the Bay Area black community before the great westward migration of World War II. After working in the civilian home front effort in the war years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries by moving into a previously all-white community east of the Oakland hills, where they raised four children while resisting the prejudices against the family that many of her neighbors held.  With Mel, she opened up one of the first Bay Area record stores in Berkeley both owned by African-Americans and dedicated to the distribution of African-American music. Her volunteer work in rehabilitating the community where the record shop began eventually led her to a paid position as a state legislative aide, helping to plan the innovative Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, then to a “second” career as the oldest park ranger in the history of the Na ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Betty Reid Soskin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hayh/000946/bk_hayh_000946_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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