Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
A rigorous and celebratory journey through the history of pop music, from the former New York Times music critic. From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa S ...Show more
The Bach Cello Suites - A Companion by Steven Isserlis
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites.
John Prine's John Prine 33 1/3 by Erin Osmon
19.99 AUD
Category: Music
He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition. Marking the 50th anniversary of the album's release, John Prine chronicles the legendary s ...Show more
This Bright Future: A Memoir (Bobby Hall aka Logic) by Bobby Hall
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
An explosive memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket. This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era ...Show more
Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A radical, literary and intimate insight into one of the twentieth century's most vital vocalists. In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmo ...Show more
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
27.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Excellent' - Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable' - Irish Times 'Dazzling' - LRB 'Fascinating' - New Statesman'An absolute must-read'- GQ For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the styl ...Show more
A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History) by Paul Morley
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times'Funny and moving' - Jarvis CockerMusic critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre of all. Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself r ...Show more
The Life and Times of Malcolm Mclaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Excellent . . . With this book, Gorman convincingly moves away from the ossified image of McLaren as a great rock'n'roll swindler, a morally bankrupt punk Mephistopheles, and closer towards his art-school roots, his love of ideas. Tiresome, unpleasant, even cruel - he was, this book underlines, never bo ...Show more
Freak Out: How a Musical Revolution Rocked the World in the Sixties by Tony Wellington
34.95 AUD
Category: Music
Freak Out is Australia's coming-of-age story, how we as a nation were dragged into global culture by the unstoppable momentum of rock and pop music. The sixties were an era of extraordinary change and earth-shattering events. The music scene responded with popular anthems that reverberated across the pl ...Show more
Bob Smeaton - From Benwell Boy to 46th Beatle... and Beyond by Bob Smeaton
35.00 AUD
Category: Music
A Cellarful of Noise: With a new introduction by Craig Brown by Brian Epstein
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
The iconic life story of Brian Epstein, the 'Fifth Beatle', in his own words - and inevitably the story of the making of the Beatles. Featuring a new introduction by Craig Brown (One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time). Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison may have fronted the ...Show more
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues: 30 Years by Adrian Jackson
66.00 AUD
Category: Music
How on earth could a town like Wangaratta in rural Victoria host a jazz festival? Thirty years on, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is firmly established as Australia's leading jazz festival, bringing together musicians and punters from all over the globe. It has won tourism awards and is ranked a ...Show more