Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Secondhand. The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his sister for a visionary Afri ...Show more
Gurrumul: His Life and Music by Robert Hillman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
On a November afternoon in 2010, Gurrumul sat in a studio in Sydney to be photographed for the cover of Rolling Stone. The studio was 3000 kilometres from where he was born on Echo Island off the coast of East Arnhem Land. A bare three years had passed since the release of Gurrumul, his critically accla ...Show more
The Gershwins And Me - A Personal History in Twelve Songs by Michael Feinstein
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Michael Feinstein was just 20 years old when he got the chance of a lifetime: a job with his hero, Ira Gershwin. During their six-year partnership, Feinstein blossomed under Gershwin's mentorship and Gershwin was reinvigorated by the younger man's zeal. Now, in The Gershwins and Me, Michael Feinstein sh ...Show more
Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat - Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His career has spanned more than half a century, his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and in "Finishing the Hat"--titled after perhaps his most au ...Show more
Women of Note: The Rise of Women Compose by Rosalind Appleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed as mentally insane by her psychiatrist husband, several achieved success only after their divorces and often the only way to get their music published was to lie about their gender. Still, the allure ...Show more