Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll ...Show more
Refiners Fire - The Academy of Ancient Music and the Historical Performance Revolution by Richard Bratby
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Founded in 1973 by conductor Christopher Hogwood with the aim of energising baroque and classical music, the Academy of Ancient Music heralded a revolution in the way orchestral music is performed. During the 1970s and 80s the Academy surfed the digital boom in recorded music with unprecedented success ...Show more
Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy by Stephen M. Silverman
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend--a man who stood at the pinnacle of the American musical theatre for more than sixty years. Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Wh ...Show more
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson
$70.00 AUD
Category: Film
From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies. "Thomson's own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying away ...Show more
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics: The official, fully illustrated celebration of the Man in Black by Mark Stielper, Johnny Carter Cash, Johnny Cash
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music
This book marks the first time Johnny Cash's 60 years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than 600 songs and perhaps best known for blending country, rock, blues, and gospel in his music, usher ...Show more
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
$160.00 AUD
Category: Music
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is the landmark magnum opus every Bob Dylan fan has been waiting for since the 60s: lavishly illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen photographs and spanning from Dylan's childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, to the Nobel Prize for Literature and beyond, this is a tre ...Show more
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
Jane Campion on Jane Campion by Michel Ciment
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film
Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of cinema's greatest contemporary film directors. Through a series of interviews from the early days of Campion's career to her most recent projects, conducted by Michel Ciment, each chapter contains the study of a f ...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.