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Roots: How Melbourne Became the Live Music Capital of the World by Craig Horne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Roots is the history of live music in Melbourne, from jazz to blues, country, folk, rhythm and blues to rock, and the socio-political stories of those musicians who played what they wanted, when they wanted, without a damn.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
$16.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR. MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guita ...Show more
1965: the Most Revolutionary Year in Music by Andrew Grant Jackson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
A lively chronicle of the year that shaped popular music forever, with an all new Spotify appendix More than half a century ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evolved into the premier art form of its time and accelerated the drive for personal freedom throughout the ...Show more
Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil; Gillian McCain
$32.00 AUD
Category: Music
ATime Out andDaily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release,Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voic ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
The Motherlode - 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope; Rachelle Baker (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach of rap music, including pioneers like Roxanne Shant , game changers like Lauryn H ...Show more
The Cover Art of Blue Note Records by Glyn Callingham, Graham Marsh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham's classic collection of a range of the finest record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note Record is sure to appeal. With over 400 of the best covers in the label's history and a selection of short essay's this is a comprehensive guide for Jazz fans and anyone int ...Show more
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
The compelling story of Mahler's titanic Eighth Symphony. 'Thrilling.' - John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before: it would speak in different tones, and of a different kind of experience. The world premiere in Munich in the summer ...Show more
Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" Nick Cave "A stoned cold classic" Ian Rankin "Powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest" Lucinda Williams From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to th ...Show more
A Restless Hungry Feeling: The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1941-1975 by Clinton Heylin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million (and $64 million in tax relief). As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Dylan behind the Shades (199 ...Show more
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
$31.20 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.
Mozart: the Man Revealed by John Suchet
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Think you know Mozart? Think again. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, child genius, revered composer, bringer of joy and comfort to countless generations of music lovers? Well, yes - and no. Exploring and unpicking the many legends about the much-loved and brilliant composer, John Suchet reveals a richer, more ...Show more