The Boy Who Cried Freebird : Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling by Mitch Myers
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except ...Show more
The Boy in the Song: The Real Stories Behind 50 Classic Pop Songs by Michael Heatley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Boy in the Song is a follow up to 2010's The Girl in the Song. It features the real-life stories that inspired some classic pop songs about the male of the species. While the first book was filled with songs about unrequited love, the follow-up is more varied, with songs written from a number of emo ...Show more
The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era by Barry Miles
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
Celebrates the United States embracing British music, film, fashion and art in the 1960s. This book contains photographs of the many stars that crossed the pond, such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Sean Connery and Twiggy.
The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a rock music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites. There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happened: he fell deeply in love with the music, and had to hear more, know more. So began an epic quest ...Show more
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Cello Suites is an incomparable, beautifully written, true-life journey of discovery, fuelled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece. One autumn evening, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites. There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happene ...Show more
The Chemical Brothers - Paused in Cosmic Reflection by The Chemical Brothers; Robin Turner (As told to)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Music
Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, with contributions from friends and collaborators, it is fully illustrated with 30 years of mind-bending visuals.
The Chronicle of Opera by Michael Raeburn
$27.00 NZD
Category: Music
"The Chronicle of Opera" celebrates the great eras of music and performance, mixing fact and anecdote, personalities and stylistic development with hundreds of fascinating illustrations, while key historical dates set the operas in context. With a comprehensive reference section including biographies, a ...Show more
The Clash by Joe Strummer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Clash: trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries. They were the pioneers of British punk rock and their story is steeped in mythology. Many people have an opinion about what made them who they were - this book gives the chance to read the full story, from the band themselves. This is the first official b ...Show more
The Complete Classical Music Guide by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Music
What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between opera and operetta? From Bach to Bernstein, this definitive guide offers a complete survey of the history of classical music.Whether you already love classical music or you'r ...Show more
The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age by Jim Rogers
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry. While technological innovations (primarily in the form of peer-to-peer file-sharing) have evolved to threaten the economic health of major transnational music ...Show more
The Doors : the complete illustrated lyrics by Danny Sugarman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
This book consists of magazine and newspaper articles, interviews, record reviews, excerpts from books, and other material related to the history of The Doors, to whose memory it is dedicated.
The Eagles: An American Band by Andrew Vaughan
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
"Take it Easy." "Lyin' Eyes." "One of these Nights." "Hotel California." These songs are among the most memorable ever written and they all came from one amazing band: the Eagles. This gorgeous volume traces the history of the group from the late 1960s through to the present. Capturing the albums, the t ...Show more