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January 3, 2024

Loaded The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground [Audiobook]

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Free Download Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1TBH5C3 | 2023 | 16 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 470 MB
Author: Dylan Jones
Narrator: Dylan Jones, Robert G. Slade
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this definitive oral history celebrates not only the impact of The Velvet Underground but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century. Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen-whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s-The Velvet Underground represents ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang around a psychedelic rock and roll band-a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol’s Factory-The Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up.

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September 25, 2023

Loaded A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

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Free Download Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Laural Merlington, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07JNNG1LV | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 35m + EPUB | 181 Mb
With President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves, with the NRA portrayed as a group of "patriots" helping to Make America Great Again, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children?
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment is a deeply researched – and deeply disturbing – history of guns and gun laws in the United States, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control, we must understand the history of US guns, from their role in the "settling of America" and the early formation of the new nation, and continuing up to the present.

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