Piano : The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand [BT] by James Barron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
Like no other instrument, a grand piano melds the magic of engineering with the magic of great music. Alone among the big piano companies, Steinway & Sons still crafts each of its pianos largely by hand, imbuing each one with the promise and burden of its brand. In this captivating narrative, James ...Show more
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music
Lester Bangs was a celebrity within the world of rock n roll from the early 70's to his death in 1982. A musician himself, he was driven by his love for the music and contempt for all pretension. He was a prolific and hugely gifted writer, as much part of the scene as he was a writer about it. ...Show more
Soweto Blues by Ansell Gwen
$23.95 AUD
Category: Music
Illustrates the vibrant relationship between jazz and the antiapartheid movement in twentieth-century South Africa. A major new contribution to the study of African music, "Soweto Blues" tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides ...Show more
Composing for the Films by Theodor W. Adorno
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and experience enjoyed by the book's authors. Eisler's time at Hollywood gave him a particular insight on the technical questions which arise for composers when m ...Show more
Infinity Blues by Ryan Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
"Ryan Adams, one of America's most consistently interesting singer/songwriters, has written a passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse. Fans are going to love it, and newcomers will be pleased and startled by his intensity and originality. The images are vivid and the voice is honest and po ...Show more
Three Wishes by Nica De Koenigswarter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Pannonica de Koenigswarter, known as Nica, was a constant and benevolent presence on the thriving jazz scene. Known as the Jazz Baroness (she was born into the wealthy Rothschild family and later married to a French aristocrat) she befriended such giants as Thelonious Monk, Ch ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Reggae by Steve Barrow & Peter Dalton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
This expanded and updated third edition of The Rough Guide to Reggae tells the extraordinary story of recorded music in Jamaica, from folk traditions and 1950s mento through to dancehall and bashment, giving you the lowdown on ska, rocksteady, roots, dub, ragga and lovers' rock, as well as reggae's offs ...Show more
CBGB DECADES OF GRAFFITI by Hell Richard
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music
CBGB's is little more than a bar, a stage and two bathrooms. Since the club opened in 1973, very little has changed about the physical space, with one exception: the graffiti. The club has never tried to stop its patrons from adding to the mosaics of ink and pencil that literally cover every square inch ...Show more
Old Rare New: The Independent Record Shop by Emma Pettit
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music
There is nothing quite like the feeling of thumbing through LP after LP in a dusty old record shop, only to stumble upon some hidden treasure, new obsession or forgotten love. "Old Rare New: The Independent Record Shop" is an homage to the holy places of music collecting, complete with their particular ...Show more
Jazz Writings by Philip Larkin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Philip Larkin (1922?85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written f ...Show more
Sound Beginnings: The Early Record Industry in Australia by Ross Laird
$43.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Music
Primarily concerned with the events of the tumultuous decade 1924-34 that moved from prosperity to bankruptcy with dizzying speed. It was without question the most significant decade in the history of the Australian recording industry; seventy years later the legacy of those years are still being felt b ...Show more