Born to be Wild: Harley Cycles and Rock Classics (Book + 4-CDs) by Michael Stein
$90.00 NZD
Category: Music
This title includes book and 4 CDs. When William S Harley and Arthur Davidson added an engine to their bicycle out of necessity about 100 years ago, they never dreamed that this would become the cornerstone of a legend. Today, Harley is both cult and attitude towards life, inseparably linked to the idea ...Show more
Brass Band to Follow by Bryan Walpert
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
"Bryan Walperts fourth collection of lyric poems ranges in its focus from flowers to infinities, from laundry to eternity, but is founded most fully on what it is to move into middle age to wait still for lifes promised brass band to arrive. Whether writing from the perspective of a parent watching chil ...Show more
Brian Johnson - The Lives of Brian - A memoir by Brian Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own inimitable voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC's legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock 'n'roll history. For o ...Show more
Bring the Noise : 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip-hop by Simon Reynolds
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this is the book that explores the links between hip-hop and rock. Reynolds has focused on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. He's identified the strange dance of white bohemian rock and black culture, how they come tog ...Show more
British Pop Invasion - How British Music Conquered The 1960s by Alan J. Whiticker
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
1964 was the start of the British 'pop' invasion of the United States and the world was never the same. The Beatles paved the way for countless British bands and performers to find international success during the 1960s, taking the US and other international charts by storm. British Pop Invasion is a p ...Show more
Broadway Musicals, Revised And Updated: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time by Ken Bloom, Frank Vlastnik
$100.00 NZD
Category: Music
This information-filled and photography-packed celebration of Broadway has been thoroughly updated to include the latest shows, and an expanded off-Broadway section. It celebrates popular theatre's most enduring artform and brings to life the best-loved shows of all time - from Annie Get Your Gun to the ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$25.00 NZD
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
COUNTRY MUSIC by CARLIN, R
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
This book is a profusely illustrated celebration of country music and a lively history of the most popular form of American music: its creators, interpreters and institutions. This is a rich illustrated chronicle of the diverse American musical idioms collectively known as "country", organised into more ...Show more
California Schemin' by Gavin Bain
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
California Schemin' is the remarkable real life story of how two rappers from Dundee pretended to be two rappers from California and duped the record industry out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd - or Silibil N' Brains, as they became known - were two ordinary Scottish boys ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music
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 finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of ...Show more
Christmas Carols: From Village Green to Church Choir by Andrew Gant
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Everyone loves a carol - in the end, even Scrooge. They have the power to summon up a special kind of midwinter mood, like the aroma of mince pies and mulled wine and the twinkle of lights on a tree. It's a kind of magic. But how did they get that magic? In Christmas Carols Andrew Gant tells the story ...Show more