Diva by Kate Bailey
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
From Bette Davis to Beyoncé, Maria Callas to Mariah Carey, this gorgeously illustrated book takes a look at what it means to be a divaOriginating from the Latin for deity or goddess, the term diva has evolved to become a far more complex--and loaded--term. Delving into public and private personas of per ...Show more
Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity by Kate Ceberano
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
A beautiful illustrated memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics, stories, paintings and embroidery, and celebrating four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album. Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws ...Show more
Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100 by Tom W Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The Hottest 100 is a national institution.Every year since 1993, Australia's national youth broadcaster triple j has held annual countdown of listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It's as iconic of modern Australiana as sausage sizzles and leadership spills. It has become s ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Mozart in Motion - His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity's most important figures.
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focu ...Show more
Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra by Dan Callahan
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride t ...Show more
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald - The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick
$65.95 AUD
Category: Music
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Bec ...Show more
Becoming a Composer by Errollyn Wallen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham . . . It is clear that composing found me. It crept up on me and wouldn't let me out of its grasp.Now a leading international composer and a singer-so ...Show more