Two by Two - Tango, Two-Step, and the L. A. Night by Eve Babitz
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
Provides a glittering odyssey through the glamorous dance scene in fashionable Los Angeles, offering a close-up look at the dancers, music, nightlife, hot dance spots, celebrities, and more.
The Book of Rhyme and Reason - Photographs by Peter Spirer by Peter Spirer
$99.50 AUD
Category: Music
The ultimate backstage pass: a photographic inside look at the making of the groundbreaking hip hop documentary Rhyme & Reason. In the mid-1990s, documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer embarked on a three-year odyssey to create a realistic portrait of hip hop, interviewing over 80 artists. Spirer capt ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Stanley is both a fine writer and an impassioned celebrant of pop in all its mongrel, misfit glory.'STUART MACONIE, THE TIMESThere have been many books on pop music but none have attempted to chart its entire story, from thedawn of the charts in the fifties to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, ...Show more
Becoming a Composer by Errollyn Wallen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham . . . It is clear that composing found me. It crept up on me and wouldn't let me out of its grasp.Now a leading international composer and a singer-so ...Show more
John Cage - Variations on Mushrooms: a Mycological Foray by John Cage
$120.00 AUD
Category: Music
John Cage: A Mycological Foray draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused, innermost landscape of celebrated American composer John Cage. Upon the remarkable journey with Cage, one encounters assorted photographs, compositions and contemplations; all in the very same unexpected fashion on ...Show more
K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
$21.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug." This is ...Show more
Started Out Just Drinking Beer by Stuart Lloyd
$36.95 AUD
Category: Music
The riotous rollercoaster ride of Mental as Anything, Australia's greatest party band from 1976-2019. The Mentals went from the top of a pool table to the top of the charts. Enjoy the untold stories behind Aussie classics like: Live It Up, Too Many Times, If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Berserk Warrior ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: 'Far away from Myself' by Clinton Heylin
$69.99 AUD
Category: Music
The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans and critics alike.There are peaks and troughs. Lo ...Show more