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
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Juliette Michaud
85.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
From the pioneers of cinema to the New Hollywood of the 1960s, this volume tells the epic tale of the golden age of American film studios. Featuring previously unpublished or rare interviews with Hollywood greats from Mickey Rooney to Kirk Douglas and from Jane Fonda to Julie Andrews, this history offer ...Show more
Tom Petty: Rock 'n' Roll Guardian by Andrea M. Rotondo
24.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Tom Petty may be one of rock'n'roll's preeminent artists today - having sold more than 60-million records - but his rise to superstardom was never a foregone conclusion. His band Mudcrutch was a household name in his hometown of Gainesville, Florida, in the mid-1970s, but the band self-destructed just m ...Show more
J Dilla's Donuts 33 1/3 by Jordan Ferguson
19.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: 33 1/3
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music" is typically defined; they caree ...Show more
Future Days - Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs
39.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
West Germany following the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this disorientating landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental and various sounds ...Show more
Kansas City Lightning - The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch
39.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through by Cheryl Robson
29.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is this a new era for women film-makers? The figures in the USA suggest otherwise. In this unique international overview, we discover why and how women film directors are breaking through internationally. Highlighting ...Show more
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
39.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each embo ...Show more
The Best Music Writing Under the Australian Sun by Christian Ryan
29.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Oceans apart, down low, far from the world's music-making epicentres and dangling on the edge of the world is a country - Australia - that throws up music unlike anyplace elsea Nor has there been a book like this before. This book explores the culture and the story of rock (and pop) in Australia via 34 ...Show more