Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music
Presents an account of the history of reggae. This book describes reggae's origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. It relates the story of reggae to the history of Jamaica, from Colonial Island to troubled independ ...Show more
noise of the world: non-western musicans in their own words by Bordowitz Hank
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
One of the most comprehensive accounts to date, Noise of the World is the authentic story of a burgeoning world music scene, as told by its most seminal artists. Drawing on 20 years of original interviews, music journalist Hank Bordowitz presents the fascinating commentary of world music's most pivotal ...Show more
Moonage Daydream by BOWIE David
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
This is the most complete, detailed exploration of one of rock n rolls creations, Ziggy Stardust. This book features more than 600 photographs selected from Mick Rock's vast archive.
White Bicycles : Making music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
$32.95 AUD
Category: Music
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bun ...Show more
U2 by U2 by Neil McCormick & U2
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music
"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." -- Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures. It is the only authorised, fully comprehensive guide to the biggest band in the world. "We are trying to pin down something elusive, something that represents where we are, e ...Show more
Uptight - The Velvet Underground Story by Victor:Malanga Bockris
$26.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The best-selling account of The Velvet Underground phenomenon is now recognised as one of the greatest rock books ever written. First published in 1983, it is based on interviews with all four members of the Velvets, as well as others who became part of Andy Warhol's circle of artistic collaborators. ...Show more
The Triumph of Music : Composers, musicians and their audiences, 1700 to the present by Tim Blanning
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
The power and prestige of music in the modern world has given its practitioners extraordinary wealth and moral authority. This is taken for granted now and yet for much of Europe's history musicians have been mere servants. The rise of music and musicians in the West is the subject of Tim Blanning's fas ...Show more
Pigs Might Fly - The inside story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life. Lucidly written, incorporating over a hundred new and exclusive interviews, it covers Pink Floyd from their Cambridge beginnings in the early sixties to thei ...Show more
With Billie by Julia Blackburn
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music
Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never came ou ...Show more
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
$21.95 AUD
Category: Music
One of the most exhilarating periods in film history began with Dennis Hopper's groundbreaking "Easy Rider" in 1969 and ended with Scorsese's masterpiece "Raging Bull" in 1980, with Beverly Hills shrouded under a blanket of cocaine: at least, that's how it seemed. Based on interviews with all the Hol ...Show more
Made In The UK The Music of Attitude 1977 1983 by Goldman Vivien
$69.95 AUD
Category: Music
The second monograph by celebrated music photographer Janette Beckman captures 'the look' of the musicians and kids who were loudly defining an era that continues to reverberate throughout pop culture. Made in the UK documents the years between 1977 and 1983, a time when British music pushed every bound ...Show more