Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
A sumptuously illustrated history of opera brought to life by stunning photography, following the same format as Ballet- The Definitive Illustrated HistoryExperience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide. Immerse yourself in more than 75 year ...Show more
Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics by Bill Peel
27.99 AUD
Category: Music
Tonight It's a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism. Tonight It's a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music. Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal i ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
26.00 AUD
Category: Music
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
The Music Photography Wendy McDougall by Mcdougall, Wendy
50.00 AUD
Category: Music
it's only Rock 'n' Roll but I like it In 1979, Wendy sold her first photo to one of the biggest bands in Australia, The Angels, and ever since has caught and framed unforgettable pictures of local music legends like INXS, Crowded House, Cold Chisel, Paul Kelly, Richard Clapton, Noiseworks, Diesel, Meli ...Show more
Started Out Just Drinking Beer by Stuart Lloyd
36.95 AUD
Category: Music
The riotous rollercoaster ride of Mental as Anything, Australia's greatest party band from 1976-2019. The Mentals went from the top of a pool table to the top of the charts. Enjoy the untold stories behind Aussie classics like: Live It Up, Too Many Times, If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Berserk Warrior ...Show more
Nick Cave Mercy on Me by Reinhard Kleist
27.99 AUD
Category: Music
Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave (b. 1957) is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic output--always uncompromising, hypnotic, and intense--is defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, Reinhard Kleist employs a cast of characters drawn from Cave's music ...Show more
Australasian Music, at Home and Abroad by Sarah Kirby & John Gabriel (eds)
44.00 AUD
Category: Music
Combining approaches from Western art music, First Nations music, pop music, studies of contemporary community practice, and anthropological and ethnomusicological field work, Australasian Music, At Home and Abroad presents peer-reviewed chapters that critically reflect on Australasian music-making in t ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (PB) by Paul Kildea
22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Journey Through Romanticism
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin ...Show more
Music, Dance and the Archive by Harris Amanda
40.00 AUD
Category: Music
Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical access and responses to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members, and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives.It highlights th ...Show more
Why We Sing - A memoir about the power of singing to make connections, to heal and expand our lives by Julia Hollander
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
A memoir celebrating the power of song to lift our mood and restore our sense of connection to other people and the world. Singing makes you feel good. Everyone who sings in a community choir or just in the shower knows this, and relishes the sense of liberation, connection and sheer joy that singing ca ...Show more
Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland by Jillian Graham
50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In the first half of the twentieth century, her desire to be both serious composer and mother was atypical, and she faced significant challenges - public and private. Jillian Graham is a freelance writer, editor an ...Show more