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A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy
$33.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: North Texas Lives of Musicians Series
This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas' - and America's - greatest song-writers. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. "A Deeper Blue" traces ...Show more
Another Day in the Life: Ringo Starr by Ringo Starr; David Lynch (Foreword by); Henry Diltz (Foreword by)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: My life in Photos & Music
"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." - Ringo Starr"Ringo's picture book, Ringo in book form. ...Show more
Beethoven - Violin Concerto by Robin Stowell; Julian Rushton (Contribution by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks Ser.
This is the first individual study of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. It explores the work's background and the influences that combined in its creation, and describes its indifferent initial reception. It considers the numerous textual problems that confront the performer, including discussion of Beethove ...Show more
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix
$37.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Music in American Life (Hardcover)
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any othe ...Show more
Brian Wilson by Kirk Curnutt
$32.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Icons of Pop Music
Brian Wilson is a musical genius. Ever since British press agent Derek Taylor launched a publicity campaign with that theme to promote the landmark LP Pet Sounds in 1966, some variation of that claim has been obligatory when discussing the significance of the Beach Boys' founder and chief composer. Orig ...Show more
Cash on Cash - Interviews and Encounters with Johnny Cash by Robert Burke Warren
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Cash on Cash offers unprecedented insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the twentieth century. As an interviewee, Cash was an exemplary communicator to an astonishingly broad spectrum of people: always open and articulate, part friend, part spiritual authority, part flaw ...Show more
Charley Patton - Expanded Edition by John Fahey
$23.00 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: Music | Series: Dover Books on Music: Folk Songs Ser.
The Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934) was born and raised around Mississippi's cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the first of the region's great stars, performing for packed houses throughout the South and making popular recordings in New York City. His music -- ranging fr ...Show more
DJ Screw - A Life in Slow Revolution by Lance Scott Walker
$56.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: American Music Ser.
DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle ...Show more
Dance to the Music of Time: Autumn #3 by Anthony Powell
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Dance to the Music of Time Ser.
Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Volume 3 contains the seventh, eighth ...Show more
Dance to the Music of Time: Spring #1 by Anthony Powell
$62.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Dance to the Music of Time Ser.
"A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING A BUYER'S MARKET THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it ...Show more
Dance to the Music of Time: Summer #2 by Anthony Powell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Dance to the Music of Time Ser.
"Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Volume 2 contains the second three no ...Show more
Dance to the Music of Time: Winter #4 by Anthony Powell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Dance to the Music of Time Ser.
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