Roots, Radicals and Rockers - How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blow ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of ...Show more
Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber by Charles Barber
$65.95 AUD
Category: Music
Drawing heavily on their 15-year correspondence, this book is the first English-language biography of Carlos Kleiber ever written. Charles Barber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked. This biography considers Kleiber's singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his reput ...Show more
The Long and Winding Way to the Top: Fifty (or So) Songs That Made Australia by Andrew P Street
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy BarnesWhich band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash owes its exis ...Show more
Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music by Matthew Collin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have the same power to inspire?From the pleasure palaces of Ibiza and Las Vegas to 'new frontiers' like Shangh ...Show more
Symphony of Seduction: The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers by Christopher Lawrence
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music
'Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.' Romantic composer Hector Berlioz Berlioz should know. He didn't just hear the symphony when he fell in love with an Irish actress back in 1827, he wrote it. What was love like for the people who could really feel that song ...Show more
The Sex Pistols - 1977: the Bollocks Diaries by the Sex Pistols
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
'...short, sharp, to the point, minimal. 'Never Mind the Bollocks' is a blackmail note - and we got you all to pay up!' - JOHN LYDON 'When we first went in Wessex [recording studios] we went in through this side door. Freddie Mercury was there doing a vocal take and we walked right through with our guit ...Show more
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane; Neil Martinez-Belkin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this "cautionary tale that ends in triumph" (GQ). For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is "as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself" (Complex). T ...Show more
Punk Girls by Liz Ham
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
Fashion, music and politics collide in this landmark photography publication by one of Australia's most acclaimed artists. The images are inspired by and reference the iconic women of punk history, as embodied and re-enacted by those who channel the punk movement in contemporary daily life.
Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras by Tom Service
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries, from Toscanini to Karajan, from Carlos Kleiber to Gustavo Dudam ...Show more
London Rock: The Unseen Archive by Alec Byrne
$140.00 AUD
Category: Music
Up close, back stage, tiny gigs, pre-famous - Led Zep to Bowie as you've never seen them.Released to coincide with an exhibition at Proud Central, London (8th December - 28 January), this huge rock treasure chest contains over 250 previously unpublished premium images from the epicentre of London's expl ...Show more