The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Abdurraqib Hanif
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others - along with original, previously unreleased essays ' Hanif Abdurraqib explores the political, social, racial condition of our world today through the language of music and culture. From discussions over public d ...Show more
'Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More by Iggy Pop
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Iggy Pop hasn't simply left a mark on music; he's left blood stains all over it. From fronting the legendary proto-punk band The Stooges to collaborating with an eclectic mix of artists including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Jack White and Josh Homme, Iggy has proved himself to be one of punk's ...Show more
Two Beats Ahead - What Great Musical Minds Teach Us about Innovation by Panos A. Panay; R. Michael Hendrix
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music
'A roadmap for innovators, entrepreneurs and those seeking new avenues for exploring and reimagining the future' Deepak Chopra 'Groundbreaking' Amy Cuddy, bestselling author of Presence Musicians know how to stay ahead of the beat. As Chance the Rapper said 'Technology moves faster than business and mus ...Show more
Ukulele for Beginners : How to Play Ukulele in Easy-to-follow Steps by Will Grove-White
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: General Adult
The Ukulele: a noble little instrument, an irritating little instrument. Both views are valid, but for millions of people around the world, the ukulele is becoming the instrument of desire: a revolution in music is happening under our noses and its weapon of choice is a vertically challenged guitar. The ...Show more
Vinyl Age: A Guide to Record Collecting Now by Max Brzezinski
$49.00 NZD
Category: Music
From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services, digital t ...Show more
Voices of Aotearoa - 25 Years of Going West Oratory by Robyn Mason et al. (eds)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Since 1996 the Going West Writers Festival has attracted literary voices from around Aotearoa to West Auckland for a feast of ideas and words. Drawing on the festivals comprehensive sound archive, Voices of Aotearoa sets down the live recordings of a whos who of New Zealand literary luminaries from Fion ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$44.99 NZD
Category: Music
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
$23.00 NZD
Category: Music
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers something for everyone - not just the super-fans' IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more