A Little History of Music by Robert Philip
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores ...Show more
Piano and Keyboard All-In-One for Dummies by Holly Day; Jerry Kovarsky; Blake Neely; David Pearl; Michael Pilhofer
66.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: For Dummies
The comprehensive go-to guide for building keyboard skills Being able to play a tune on the piano can bring you a lifetime of sheer aesthetic pleasure--and put you in serious demand at parties! Whatever your motivation for tinkling the ivories, the latest edition of Piano & Keyboard All-In-One For ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
28.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
After All Is Said and Done - Taping the Grateful Dead, 1965-1995 by Mark A. Rodriguez; Stuart Krimko (Foreword by)
90.00 NZD
Category: Music
If any one musical act of the rock and roll era can be said to have transcended the simple categorization of "band," the Grateful Dead is it: by the time they stopped performing in 1995, the Dead had become an international institution with a vast backing organization, a massive and devoted fanbase, and ...Show more
Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen by Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill
34.99 NZD
Category: Music
Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues.When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed ...Show more
Do You Feel Like I Do? - A Memoir by Peter Frampton; Alan Light (As told to)
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
From his early rise to fame to battles with his health, this revelatory memoir by legendary guitarist Peter Frampton celebrates the life of a rock icon. Do You Feel Like I Do? is the incredible story of Peter Frampton's positively resilient life and career told in his own words for the first time. H ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
37.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
A radical answer to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, Sound Within Sound fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. The twentieth century was the century of modernity; in a world undergoing rapid transformation, musicians drew upon new tech ...Show more
King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.
The Little Guide to Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man by Unnamed
16.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The\Little Books of Music Ser.
Features quotes by and about Leonard Cohen, as well as facts, song lists and more. Without a doubt one of the most important, influential and acclaimed artists since the 1960s, Leonard Cohen is admired by fans, musicians and composers the world over. His death in 2016 at the age of 82 was front-page new ...Show more
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine Evaristo on Sweet Honey in the Rock. Part meditation o ...Show more
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters by Tanya Pearson
27.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Music Matters Ser.
A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist. First as a doe-eyed ingenue with 'As Tears Go By', then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-le ...Show more