World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance ea ...Show more
Adventures in Modern Recording by Trevor Horn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
A Telegraph Book of the Year As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. His production work since the glory days of ZTT represents a veritable 'who's who' of intelligent modern pop, including the likes of ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCar ...Show more
Ways of Hearing - Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham (Editor); Marna Seltzer (Editor); Dorothea von Moltke (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more--from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon--explore the influence of music on their lives and work Contributors include: Laurie Anderson ● Jamie Barton ● Daphne A ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tol ...Show more
Holding the Note: Writing on Music by David Remnick
$43.00 NZD
Category: Music
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the ...Show more
Too Late to Stop Now - More Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
$39.00 NZD
Category: Music
The stories in Too Late To Stop Now are mostly from a long-gone golden era for the UK music press, when writers like Allan Jones enjoyed unprecedented access to rock's biggest names. Featuring Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Sting, Robert Plant, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello, The Clash and more. Here are t ...Show more
Karma: The definitive autobiography by Boy George
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George. Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club, since its inception in 1981.Boy George has led a colo ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
A Pianists A-Z - A Piano Lovers Reader by Alfred Brendel; Michael Morley; Gottfried Wiegand (Illustrator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
From one of the world's best-loved pianists, comes a hugely insightful and enjoyable book for all piano lovers.
Lost in Music by Giles Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about ...Show more
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980 by Jerome Soligny
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
"This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people's around him" - Hermione Farthingale "Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world of David Bowie's career and life in general... His ne ...Show more