Jazz Writings by Philip Larkin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Philip Larkin (1922?85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written f ...Show more
Sound Beginnings: The Early Record Industry in Australia by Ross Laird
$43.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Music
Primarily concerned with the events of the tumultuous decade 1924-34 that moved from prosperity to bankruptcy with dizzying speed. It was without question the most significant decade in the history of the Australian recording industry; seventy years later the legacy of those years are still being felt b ...Show more
Background Noise - Perspectives on Sound Art by Brandon Labelle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The rise of a prominent auditory culture reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st century. This book sets out a historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially through media of ...Show more
Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us.' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we understand our own min ...Show more
The Man Called Cash : The life, love and faith of an American legend by Steve Turner
$26.95 AUD
Category: Music
The exclusive authorised biography of the country music singer-songwriter whose battles with drink, drugs and God are the stuff of legend. Country Music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash is an icon to people of all ages the world over. In Cash's first ever authorised biography, Steve Turner sifts the man fr ...Show more
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess by Danny Sugerman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Abacus Bks.
At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's prot g and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and then Iggy Pop. He also plunged gleefully into the glamorous ...Show more
Room Full of Mirrors - a biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross
$27.98 AUD
Category: Music
Jimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell huge quantities of albums, even 35 years after his death. Quite apart from his influence on musicians and fans, a large part of the appeal of his sensational life story lies in the thrill of the era whose values he came to stand for. The Sixties still exert ...Show more
In His Own Write by John Lennon
$30.95 AUD
Category: Music
This volume combines Lennon's two books of humorous poetry and prose, liberally illustrated with the author's own drawings.
Joy Division: Piece by Piece (Writing About Joy Division 1977-2007) by Paul Morley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
Joy Division are the perennial cult post-punk band. Author/TV broadcaster Paul Morley is the man who knew Joy Division best - he was the only journalist permitted to view Curtis' corpse, was present when Curtis suffered his near fatal epileptic seizure following a London concert in April 1980, and wrote ...Show more