World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance ea ...Show more
David Bowie and the Art of Music Video by Lisa Perrott (Series edited by); Carol Vernallis (Series edited by); Holly Rogers (Series edited by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media Ser.
The first in-depth study of David Bowie's music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure elaborate imagery, Bowie's videos provide fascinating exemplars of the artistry and remediation of music video. When their cons ...Show more
A Pianists A-Z - A Piano Lovers Reader by Alfred Brendel; Michael Morley; Gottfried Wiegand (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
From one of the world's best-loved pianists, comes a hugely insightful and enjoyable book for all piano lovers.
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . ...Show more
Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. ‘Wonderful . . . This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to l ...Show more
To Anyone Who Ever Asks The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The mysterious true story of Connie Converse, a New York musician who disappeared after making her one haunting album and was never seen again.When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse's voice, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too out ...Show more
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into' EMMYLOU HARRIS Born into music royalty, daughter of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwrig ...Show more
Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas - The Two Dylans by K. G. Miles; Jeff Towns
$37.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
The Last Holiday : A Memoir by GIL. SCOTT-HERON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Canons
Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. In this, his heartfelt, beautifully written and posthumously published memoir, we are given bright insigh ...Show more