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Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass ...Show more
Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval
$40.00 AUD
Category: Film
A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-so world of his films, presented with fascinating human stories behind each façade. Accidentally Wes Anderson began as a personal tra ...Show more
Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge ...Show more
John and Yoko Plastic Ono Band by LENNON JOHN
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music
Described by Lennon as 'the best thing I've ever done', and widely regarded by critics as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by Lennon, Ono and other members of the Plastic Ono Band, and packed with previously unseen photographs ...Show more
Wagner's Parsifal - The Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is a symbol of purity in a world of lust and power, but although Parsifal is the culmination of Wagner ...Show more
Singular Sensation - The Triumph of Broadway by Michael Riedel
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
The extraordinary story of a transformative decade on Broadway, featuring gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers--shows that changed the history of the American theater. The 1990s was a decade of profound change on Broadway ...Show more
The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies by Andrew Ford; Anni Heino
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
Often today, the word 'song' is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony, a Springsteen anthem or a Leonard Cohen ballad- they're all songs. But, in fact, a song is a specific musical form. It's not so much that they all have verses ...Show more
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Film
In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the p ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
Blending biography, mystery, history and the most recent forensic science investigations, this text offers a fresh interpretation of a life of genius and ill-health. Born in Germany, Beethoven spent much of his life in Austria.