The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age by Stephen Walsh
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - points out in this intensely absorbing study, there ...Show more
Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland by Jillian Graham
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In the first half of the twentieth century, her desire to be both serious composer and mother was atypical, and she faced significant challenges - public and private. Jillian Graham is a freelance writer, editor an ...Show more
AC/DC at 50 by Martin Popoff
$85.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: At 50 Ser.
A beautifully produced, photo-packed celebration of the ultimate rock band, AC/DC at 50 examines the extraordinary history of the Australian rockers through the lens of 50 milestone events and an illustrated gatefold timeline. Authored by acclaimed rock writer Martin Popoff, AC/DC at 50 provides a visu ...Show more
Buzzin' - The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday by Bez
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever known to the world as Bez, was visibly a danger to society. He became the so-called Chemical Generation's bug-eyed pied piper, every weekend lead ...Show more
Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones by Elizabeth Winder
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and curate the image of The Rolling Stones--perfect for fans of Girls Like Us. The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. At the forefront of the Briti ...Show more
Rolling Stones: Icons by ACC ART BOOKS
$120.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Rolling Stones: Icons brings together the greatest photographs ever taken of the greatest rock 'n' roll band of all time. The result is the most important anthology of The Rolling Stones' images ever compiled, featuring the iconic, the awe inspiring and the surprising. Spanning six heady decades, an ...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
$89.99 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
The Girl in the Band: Bardot – a cautionary tale by Belinda Chapple
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
For millions of girls, being in a band is the ultimate dream. For Belinda, it turned into a nightmare. The Girl in the Band takes us behind the scenes of the early days of reality TV, and reveals, for the first time, what really happened to Bardot.Belinda Chapple spent her childhood dreaming of travelli ...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
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2 by Michael Posner
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, ent ...Show more
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li and Zakia S ...Show more
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Genuinely funny; indeed, the story will keep you entertained for a very long time' Sunday Times Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of the enduring alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a sound - dark, hypnotic, intense - that would influence U2, Morrisse ...Show more