The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
The Masters: Conversations with Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen by Jann S. Wenner
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
From New York Times bestselling author and Rolling Stone founder comes "a visit to the Mount Olympus of rock" in this remarkable collection of new and collected interviews with the greatest rock stars and cultural icons of our time (Kirkus Reviews). During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock a ...Show more
Holding the Note: Writing on Music by David Remnick
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the ...Show more
Rock N Roll Gallery: A Journey From Sheffield to Sydney 1983-2023 by Tony Mott
$99.00 AUD
Category: Music
If a picture tells a thousand words, Tony Mott ‘s photos tell millions of stories. His photos of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards mid performance, Peter Garrett kneeling on stage eye to eye with the front row, Tex Perkins holding court in front of an army of fans at Sydney’ s Big Day Out in 1994, tell the ...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
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
$50.00 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
Refiners Fire - The Academy of Ancient Music and the Historical Performance Revolution by Richard Bratby
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Founded in 1973 by conductor Christopher Hogwood with the aim of energising baroque and classical music, the Academy of Ancient Music heralded a revolution in the way orchestral music is performed. During the 1970s and 80s the Academy surfed the digital boom in recorded music with unprecedented success ...Show more
Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy by Stephen M. Silverman
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend--a man who stood at the pinnacle of the American musical theatre for more than sixty years. Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Wh ...Show more
Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane ...Show more
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics: The official, fully illustrated celebration of the Man in Black by Mark Stielper, Johnny Carter Cash, Johnny Cash
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music
This book marks the first time Johnny Cash's 60 years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than 600 songs and perhaps best known for blending country, rock, blues, and gospel in his music, usher ...Show more