Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami; Seiji Ozawa
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
'My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music.' Haruki Murakami's passion for ...Show more
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experie ...Show more
The Smith Tapes - Lost Interviews with Rock Stars & Icons 1969-1972 by Ezra Bookstein
$49.50 AUD
Category: Music
The 1960s were a period of radical cultural, social, and political upheaval in the United States and around the globe; yet in just three years, between 1969 and 1972, Village Voice "Scenes" columnist, WPLJ FM radio host, and cult figure Howard Smith got to the heart of it all by talking it out--both on ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf. where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspir ...Show more
Hollow of the Hand by Seamus PJ;Murphy Harvey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C.. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they created an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. The Hollow of the Hand marks the first p ...Show more
Gurrumul by Robert Hillman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our gene ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Earth Dances - Music in Search of the Primitive by Andrew Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
All music is a synthesis of intellectual design and bodily urge. The human soul cannot make do with dancing alone - it will inevitably seek more fantastic musical designs, more complex patterns, more rarefied sounds. Equally, when the intellect dominates for too long, we listen out for music we can tap ...Show more
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck
$58.95 AUD
Category: Music
Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, and Tristan a ...Show more
Ed Sheeran - A Visual Journey by Ed Sheeran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
With words by Ed Sheeran and illustrations by his childhood friend, artist Phillip Butah (who produces artwork for Sheeran's albums and singles), and accompanying photos, Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey is an exclusive, fully authorised, first-person account by Ed of how he became an internationally renown ...Show more
A Little History - Photographs of Nick Cave and Cohorts 1981-2013 by Bleddyn Butcher
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
A stunning record of the amazing career of Nick Cave, one of the world's coolest musicians, by one of the world's most celebrated rock photographers When Bleddyn Butcher first saw The Birthday Party play, back in 1981, he was astonished. And then enthralled. He set about trying to catch their lightning ...Show more
Lou Reed - The Life by Mick Wall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
The biography of the legendary musician and songwriter Lou Reed. Rock 'n' roll was Lou Reed's life. From recording one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time with THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO (1967), to heavy drug abuse and performing in front of the Pope, Lou Reed's story is one of g ...Show more