Music: The Definitive Visual History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
59.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The story of music from prehistory to the present day Classical or rock, everyone has their favourite musical style, but how did your top choice come about? Why did jazz go Latin, or blues influence rock? Find out in Music, a visual history of the most unifying art form in the world. Every musical revol ...Show more
Glam Rock - Dandies in the Underworld by Alwyn W. Turner
49.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Drawing on the collections of the V&A, Glam Rock narrates the story of glam and explores its impact on fashion, theatre and film. In the early 1970s, glam rock changed the face of popular culture in Britain and, against a backdrop of a nation racked by economical and social crises, its flamboyancy a ...Show more
Scene In Between - Fashion and Independent Music in the UK 1983-89 by Dave Conway (Text by); Sam Knee
29.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The scene surrounding independent guitar-based music of 1980s Britain has been largely overlooked until now. This critically acclaimed book excavates the looks and sounds of the era, featuring hundreds of unpublished photographs of bands including My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Smith ...Show more
Singing Skies: Stuart A. Staples & Suzanne Osborne by Stuart A. Staples
69.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Stuart A. Staples is the frontman with English band Tindersticks. 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the band. Stuart wrote about 150 songs during that period; he does not work with written words, his songs are formed and exist in his head only, the lyrics have never been written down. Now, for the firs ...Show more
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
35.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his sister for a visionary African-American ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: A Film by Joss Whedon by William Shakespeare and Joss Wheldon
22.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Joss Whedon's new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy has already been acclaimed as "a masterpiece". This official book features an Introduction by Joss, his full screenplay, and a gallery of photos from the set. Also included is an extended interview with the director, discussing his approach to ...Show more
Mozart: a Life by Paul Johnson
29.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mozart's mus ...Show more
Rock and Roll Stories by Lynn Goldsmith
80.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The story of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith's photographs. After coming of age in the Midwest in the tumultuous 1960s, she crashed the music scene in New York and emerged as one of its leading image-makers. She chronicled Bruce Springsteen's passage to glory, the Rolling Stone's legendary stadium tours, M ...Show more
Let's Talk About Love Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste 33 1/3 by Carl Wilson
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Reading Level: very good
For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampoone ...Show more
Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie
19.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Johann Sebastian Bach - celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music - was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred yea ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
19.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The full story of Taylor Swift's stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who's taking over the world. A small-town girl with an incredible talent, and the strength to realise her dream, Taylor has grown into an award-winning, chart-topping artist and wo ...Show more
Here We Are Now - The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain by Charles R Cross
29.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Kurt Cobain was the voice of a generation. Twenty years after his death, why does he still matter? On April 5, 1994, twenty-seven-year-old Kurt Cobain took his own life. His desperation to kick drugs, his complicated relationship with fame, his tortured soul--all these elements came together in one terr ...Show more