This Rare Spirit - A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus
49.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day. The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sasson, Walter de la ...Show more
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances by Lucy David; Boucher Boucher
46.99 AUD
Category: Music
Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The focus then returns to their ambitions when the ...Show more
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
35.00 AUD
Category: Music
'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' - Brian Eno 'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' - John Higgs 'A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music' - Cosey Fanni Tutti What do ...Show more
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America by David Hepworth
19.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times. The resulting ...Show more
Carpenters - The Musical Legacy by Mike Cidoni Lennox; Chris May
70.00 AUD
Category: Music
Introduction by Richard Carpenter The definitive biography of one of the most enduring and endeared recording artists in history--the Carpenters--is told for the first time from the perspective of Richard Carpenter, through more than 100 hours of exclusive interviews and some 200 photographs from Ri ...Show more
Joy Division: Juvenes by Kevin Cummins
59.99 AUD
Category: Music
*** The definitive collection of the Joy Division photographs of Kevin Cummins, including interviews with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. The iconic images captured by Cummins - from snowy bridges and dark rehearsal rooms to electrifying live performances - helped to define Joy Division a ...Show more
Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti (ed.)
34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than any novel or film. These records don' ...Show more
Nico - Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Fully updated with a new introduction, this is the story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory, when the world had all but forgotten her. In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, interested mainly in feeding her heroin habit. Local pr ...Show more
The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book: Australia's Best-loved Songs and Dances with Words and Music by Dobe Newton
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book is a collection of some of the best-loved folk songs performed by The Bushwackers band. Featuring music, lyrics, guitar chords and whimsical illustrations, The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book is a nostalgic, funny and sentimental celebration of the Australi ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Tenement Kid is Bobby Gillespie's story up to the recording and release of the album that has been credited with 'starting the '90s', Screamadelica. Born into a working class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, Bobby's memoirs begin in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heat ...Show more
Harry Styles The Making Of A Modern Man by Smith Sean
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles. Harry Styles has grown up. The One Direction boy band member so loved by millions has become a truly global superstar - and he's done it without shouting from the rooftops or displaying a ma ...Show more