The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera by Matthew Aucoin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Opera's greatest artists have striven to fuse multi ...Show more
The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store - A Global History by Gina Arnold (Editor); John Dougan (Editor); Christine Feldman-Barrett (Editor); Matthew Worley (Editor)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationsh ...Show more
The Listening Party: Artists, Bands And Fans Reflect On 100 Favourite Albums by Tim Burgess
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Artists, bands, and fans reflect on some of the finest albums of all timeThe Charlatans' Tim Burgess invites you to the greatest listening party of all time. In 2020 when the world was forced to hit pause on live in-person gigs, Tim Burgess found an ingenious way to bring people together by inviting art ...Show more
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback with seven new commentaries from Paul McCartney 'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or ...Show more
The Number Ones - Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in th ...Show more
The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen by Gered Mankowitz
$69.99 NZD
Category: Music
Containing many images of the band that have never been published anywhere before now, and accompanied by Gered's memories and revealing insights into the shoots, tours and sessions he spent with the band around the world, this is the definitive collection of Mankowitz's breathtaking photography. The Ro ...Show more
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born. 2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social i ...Show more
Transformer - A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan
$53.00 NZD
Category: Music
In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary and recalls its influence on his coming of age and coming out through glam rock. In November 1972, Lou ...Show more
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 by David Hepworth
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. T ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, vinyl, and the music press, to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, from Rock Around the Clock to Crazy In Love. It was more than just music - it could ...Show more
Year of Wonder - Classical Music for Every Day by Clemency Burton-Hill
$34.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'Year of Wonder is an absolute treat - the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.' Eddie RedmayneClassical music for everyone - an inspirational piece of music for every day of the year, celebrating composers from the medieval era to the present day, written by award-winning violinist and ...Show more