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
Great Singers on Great Singing by Jerome Hines
39.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Limelight Ser.
A world-renowned opera star interviews 40 famous opera singers.
Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God by Jon Stewart
37.95 AUD
Category: Music
Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and leader of the Beatles who remain, by some margin, the most covered songwriters in history. While Dylan erased the boundaries bet ...Show more
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell. FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & ...Show more
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themsel ...Show more
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen 'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni TuttiIn 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tr ...Show more
John Farnham's Whispering Jack by Graeme Turner
24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes t ...Show more
Monolithic Undertow - In Search of Sonic Oblivion by Harry Sword
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
"An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . . with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths"-- BECK In 1977 Sniffin' Glue verbalised the musical zeitgeist with their infamous 'this is a chord; this is another; now form a band' illustration. The drone requires ...Show more
A Quick Ting On Afrobeats by Christian Adofo
29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Aqto Ser.
THE FIRST BOOK ON AFROBEATS Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent. The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting On Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous music genre, tracing ...Show more
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture by Barbara Charone
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from f ...Show more
Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. Couldn't put down' Courtney Love Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID b ...Show more
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth by Michael Spitzer
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History' ... Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years a ...Show more