Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors by Neil Corcoran
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature "For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". This collection of essays by leading poets and critics examines Dylan's poetic genius, as well as his astounding cultural and musical influence In "Ballad of a ...Show more
Download: How Digital Destroyed the Record Business by Phil Hardy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Download chronicles of the making of the new record industry, from the boom years of the CD revolution of the late 1980s to the crisis of the present day, with particular stress on the last decade. It follows the actions and reactions of the major international record companies, five at the beginning of ...Show more
Early Dylan by Barry Feinstein et al
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Bob Dylan appeals as much to the generation of today as to his contemporaries. This attractively-priced paperback edition of early Dylan presents rare pictures of Dylan's early years by three leading rock photographers. Barry Feinstein, Daniel Kramer and Jim Marshall were alongside Dylan from the beginn ...Show more
El Sistema by Christine Witkowski
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
For the last 40 years, El Sistema, or 'the system', has changed the lives of many. Over a million Venezuelan children from many different socio-economic backgrounds have participated in the music education phenomenon. Consisting of over 400 music centres, ironically the essence of The System is that it ...Show more
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, ...Show more
Electric Guitars by Tony Bacon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
This is an A-Z of more than 120 guitar brands and markers, explored through 1200 studio quality photographs. From the award winning team that produced the best selling "Ultimate Guitar Book", comes the most comprehensive book about the electric guitar. Its A to Z format covers more than 120 makers from ...Show more
Elements of Music: Melody, Rhythm and Harmony (HB) by Jason Martineau
$22.00 NZD
Category: Music
An elegant primer on the principles and theories of music. This innovative book presents the elements of music by building upon the long-known fundamentals of acoustics, proportion and relationship - a kind of musical metaphor. In combination with novel graphics and symbols, the principles behind melody ...Show more
Energy Flash A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds' landmark rave history. "Energy Flash" has been expanded and updated to cover twenty-first-century developments like dub step and EDM's recent takeover of America. Author of the acclaimed postpunk history "Rip It U ...Show more
Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs by Willie Nelson, David Ritz
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along with a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera. From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks ...Show more
Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen by Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill
$32.67 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
Every Song Ever - Twenty Ways to Listen to Music by Ben Ratliff
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
From one of America's celebrated critics, the definitive field guide to listening to music in the age of the Cloud. The most significant revolution in the recent history of music has to do with listening: it is now possible to listen to nearly anything at any time, to ignore albums, and to instantly fli ...Show more
Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge by Mark Yarm
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle sound', is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' in the fall of 1991, that made grunge ...Show more