But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 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 Bach Cello Suites: A Companion by Steven Isserlis
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Category: Music
A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'The very model of how to write about music.' Philip Pullman'An essential companion.' Jeremy Denk, New York Times\'Illuminating, accessible and detailed.' ObserverBach's six cello suites for solo c ...Show more
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ...Show more
Puff Down Underground Hip-Hop Zine #3 by Bobby Albazi
$13.00 AUD
Category: Music
A packed issue!Features detailed interviews with Philadelphia MC and producer Anwar HighSign (fka Has-Lo), Atlanta-based MC Mondo Slade, Russian DJ and label head DJ OG-S and Melbourne DJ Pates.Anwar HighSign discusses his 'Vision Board' single, Wu-Tang Clan b-sides, 'In Case I Don't Make It', 'The Paul ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . ...Show more
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
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Category: Music
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, son ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
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Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Quantum Listening by Oliveros Pauline
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, musician and composer Pauline Oliveros started experimenting with bringing together meditation, political activis ...Show more
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros Soundtrack 33 1/3 by Andrew Schartmann
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew Schar ...Show more
Blondie by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Connor, Blondie, Z2 Comics
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Combining an imaginative take on an oral history of the band, interspersed with artistic interpretations of 10 songs from their catalog, BLONDIE: AGAINST THE ODDS captures the friction of NYC as the band fought their way to prominence, as well as the power and energy contained within the songs that fuel ...Show more
Do You Believe in the Power of Rock and Roll? by John Robb
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Category: Music
"'John Robb is as punk rock as The Clash." -- Alan McGee Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll?--A history of alternative rock from music writer John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This collection follows Robb's journey from the late 1970s, when he was first caught up in punk's ...Show more