Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of ...Show more
Nightingales in Berlin by David Rothenberg
$54.99 AUD
Category: Music
A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions, --from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale's song? It's a s ...Show more
The Spirit of This Place - How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit by Patrick Summers
$47.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The\Rice University Campbell Lectures
Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with ...Show more
Writings on Music, 1965-2000 by Steve Reich; Paul Hillier (Introduction by, Editor)
$36.95 AUD
Category: Music
In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout hiscareer, Reich h ...Show more
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' ...Show more
Grant and I by Robert Forster
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Go-Betweens, one of Australia's most talented and influential bands, very nearly wasn't. Grant McLennan didn't want to be in a group, and couldn't even play an instrument. That didn't stop the singer-songwriter duo of Forster/McLennan becoming one of the most acclaimed partnerships in Australian mus ...Show more
Renegade : The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith by Mark E. Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith Is The Fall - 47 members have come and gone over the years ...Show more
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music
Presents an account of the history of reggae. This book describes reggae's origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. It relates the story of reggae to the history of Jamaica, from Colonial Island to troubled independ ...Show more
My Name Is Prince by Randee St. Nicholas
$99.99 AUD
Category: Music
The ultimate collection of stunning photographs documenting the career of one of the world's greatest superstars There has never been or will there ever be an artist like Prince. "A 5′ 3″ Mastermind . . . satiated with virtuosity, controversy, stubbornness, and poise . . . His influence on Music transce ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
Spice Girls by Sean Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Intimate and revealing, Spice Girls is the definitive story of the world's most iconic girl group. Through compelling new research and interviews, Sunday Times best-selling biographer Sean Smith reveals what life was really like for five fiercely independent and ambitious young women who were propelled ...Show more
Debbie Harry: Face It by Debbie Harry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Debbie Harry has achieved a level of global success and iconic stature that is reserved for very few musicians, and even fewer women. Charismatic lead singer, critically acclaimed solo artist and style icon, her allure is endless and her legacy is enduring. In this, her first memoir, Debbie shares her r ...Show more