Grounds for Possible Music by Ed Julia Eckhardt
$38.00 AUD
Category: Music
Gender, voice, language and identity are particularly pertinent topics for musical creation--for the shaping of a canon, and for interactions in the field. All four are strongly contextually determined, and necessarily raise issues of paradigms and otherness. In Grounds for Possible Music, these four c ...Show more
Road Series by Hugo Race
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the spirit of Patti Smith's M Train, Road Series is both love story and elegy. Renowned musician Hugo Race's evocations of Melbourne, Sydney, the USA, Europe and Mali, and the life of a rock musician on the road are revealing, incisive and exquisitely written. 'A cerebral "road-poem" of the musician- ...Show more
Cult Musicians - 50 Progressive Performers You Need to Know by Robert Dimery; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
Cult Musicians handpicks 50 notable figures from the modern world of music and explores the creative genius that earned them the cult label, while celebrating the works that made their names.What makes a cult musician? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divis ...Show more
How to be Invisible (Lyrics) by Kate Bush
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Selected and arranged by the author, with an expansive introduction by the novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound edition. Kate Bush is a true iconoclast and one of the most revered contemporary musical artists of recen ...Show more
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR AS HEARD ON NPR'S FRESH AIR. "Enthusiastically chaotic...on the page she is wry and vibrant..."--New York Times. "Brave and engaging."--Kirkus Reviews At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the p ...Show more
Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin
$69.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Fifty years after their first practice in a Soho basement, Led Zeppelin continues to fascinate new generations of listeners. While their back-stage debauchery has been the focus of other books, All the Songs is about the music, detailing the Page's studio magic and inspiration that made all nine albums ...Show more
Leonard Cohen - A Woodcut Biography by George Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
About the previous edition: "Definitely succeeds as an art book, thanks to the quality of Walker's engravings; and as a collectible for Cohen fans, thanks to how well the artist captures his subject." --Foreword Reviews In Leonard Cohen, master engraver George A. Walker offers new perspectives on the l ...Show more
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
This is published to coincide with Leonard Cohen's exclusive show at London's The O2 on Friday 21 June 2013. This book contains exclusive material and interviews making it the biography to buy on Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. The genius behind such classic songs as Suz ...Show more
Spirit of the Century - Our Own Story by The Blind The Blind Boys of Alabama; Preston Lauterbach (As told to)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in Ame ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin' ...Show more
3 Shades of Blue - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 a ...Show more
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique collaborative publication which documents the lyrics written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for the platinum selling, Grammy nominated, Jazz singer Stacey Kent.