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Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz by Ian Chapman; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of many, to thi ...Show more
Bic Runga's Drive by Henry Johnson; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
From entering a high-school music competition to being honoured with the New Zealand Order of Merit, Bic Runga has an established place within contemporary popular music. Focusing on her iconic album, Drive, and including informative case studies of representative tracks on the album, this book provide ...Show more
K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more
Krautrock 33 1/3 Genre series by Marshall Gu
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the European front of World War II and the Third Reich. In ...Show more
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias 33 1/3 by Ginger Dellenbaugh
$21.89 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her love affairs and tantrums. The prototype for the 20th cen ...Show more
Nick Drakes Pink Moon 33 1/3 by PETRUSICH AMANDA
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW Cabrio commercial that launched the album to platinum status more than thir ...Show more
Smiths Meat Is Murder 33 1/3 by Joe Pernice
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic tha ...Show more
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn by Matthew Bannister; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and f ...Show more
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