The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focu ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
Guitar: The Shape of Sound, 100 Iconic Designs by Ultan Guilfoyle
$79.95 AUD
Category: Music
The 100 most iconic guitars from around the globe, from early modern beginnings to cutting-edge electric models The guitar is the iconic instrument at the heart of all popular music. From Delta blues on acoustics to electric rock & roll, and all that came in its wake, the guitar has proven the most ...Show more
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai by Matti Friedman
$44.99 AUD
Category: Music
"An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world's greatest songwriters."--Haaretz "Not only is a hidden side of Cohen revealed but so too a hidden side of Israel." --David Bezmogis The little-known story of Leonard Cohen's concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including ne ...Show more
Love & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and outside Silverchair by Ben Gillies, Chris Joannou
$44.99 AUD
Category: Music
This is the powerful, untold inside story of Silverchair, Australia's most awarded musical act, told by two of its three members. From their beginnings in Ben Gillies' garage, this trio of high school kids from Newcastle, New South Wales, became famous with their smash-hit single 'Tomorrow', setting th ...Show more
Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables 33 1/3 by Michael Stewart Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexua ...Show more
Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Children's Book of Music by DK
$37.99 AUD
Category: Music
Discover the power of music and be inspired by cultures from all over the world with the Children's Book of Music. You'll find out how instruments are made and played, and learn about the fascinating lives and achievements of great composers and musicians, from Bach to Bowie, Bjork and Beyonce.The book ...Show more
This Is Christmas, Song by Song - The Stories Behind 100 Holiday Hits by Annie Zaleski; Darling Clementine (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Celebrate the merriest season of the year with award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski's collection of the 100 most popular and beloved holiday songs of all time. 'Tis the season! Break out the eggnog, hang the mistletoe, blast those Christmas songs, and settle down in your favorite ...Show more
Center Center - A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet by James Whiteside
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
"James Whiteside is an electrifying performer, an incredible athlete, and an artist, through and through. To know James is to love him; with Center Center, you are about to fall in love." --Jennifer Garner "Exquisitely raw, hilarious, and fresh . . . Center Center shows there's a place in the world for ...Show more
self/less by AViVA
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
A world where self-expression is banned. A world where survival is everything. A girl who will be heard. Seventeen-year-old Teddy lives in the walled-in city Metropolis. Radical laws condemn all forms of self-expression and creativity, and the lives of the people are carefully constructed and controlled ...Show more
A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life by Cliff Richard
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
In this new and personal memoir looking back over 65 years in music, Cliff Richard tells his own stories behind the songs and sounds that have stayed in his heart, and defined his life and times. Foreword by Bob Stanley. On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Web ...Show more