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Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza
- De: David B. Ruderman, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: David B. Ruderman
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Experience the evolution of all of Jewish life during the 10 critical centuries from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity until the dawn of modernity in the 17th century. During this time, Judaism was forever affected by its encounters with the surrounding social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of both medieval Islam and Christendom. As a result of those encounters, new pathways of philosophical inquiry and religious spirituality would be formed. The Hebrew language would find new ways of artistic expression. And the role of Jews in the life of the surrounding community would be changed forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Comprehensible
- De Andy en 12-03-14
Enjoyed the lectures
Revisado: 06-05-15
Any additional comments?
I've enjoyed both of Prof. Ruderman's courses available on Audible. It would be very helpful if the course outlines were made available for downloading.
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
- The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
- De: Iain Anderson
- Narrado por: Paul Steven Forrest
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis.
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3 out of 5 stars
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- De Norman en 03-03-13
- This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
- The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
- De: Iain Anderson
- Narrado por: Paul Steven Forrest
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Revisado: 03-03-13
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
The original book was full of interesting information about the music and musicians. I don't have the background to know whether the sociological arguments were correct but they were at least plausible. I can't recommend the audiobook, however, because the narration was poor. I've been a subscriber to Audible for almost nine years, and I can't remember a narrator who sounded so robotic. I realize that narrating a non-fiction book needs to be different than that for fiction, but there still needs to be thought given to reading with appropriate inflection and pauses.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Paul Steven Forrest?
Of the non-fiction books I've recently listened to, I enjoyed Rob Shapiro's narration of The Third Chimpanzee, and I think he would have been a good reader for this book. Another excellent narration was Jack Weatherford's for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
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