1973 - Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles. 1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering--just like the rest of t ...Show more
20th Century Classical Music: A Ladybird Expert Book by Fiona Maddocks
$21.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Twentieth-Century Classical Music is an accessible, authoritative, and entertaining introduction to the Western classical music that captured the defining moments of the contemporary world. Written by The Observer's classical music critic Fiona Maddocks, Twentieth ...Show more
30-Second Classical Music by Joanne Cormac
$23.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 30 Second
Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? If you only have 30 seconds, there is time - using this book - to understand the creative journey taken by classical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Our early ancestor ...Show more
30-Second Opera: The 50 Crucial Concepts, Roles and Performers, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Hugo Shirley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 30 Second
The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one ...Show more
31 Songs by Nick Hornby
$32.00 NZD
Category: Music
'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ...Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else'. In his first non-fiction work since "Fever Pitch", Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are jus ...Show more
33 Revolutions Per Minute by Lynskey Dorian
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
"33 Revolutions Per Minute" tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" to Green Day raging against the Iraq war. Dorian Lynskey explores the individuals, ideas and ...Show more
33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs by Dorian Lynskey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents - to capture the colour and variety of this shape-shifting genre. This is not a list book, rather each ...Show more
360 Sound by Sean Wilentz
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music
For 125 years, Columbia Records has been one of the most vibrant and storied names in pre-recorded sound, nurturing the careers of jazz, blues, rock, and pop legends such as W. C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Mariah Carey, Br ...Show more
50 Years: The Story of Woodstock Live Relive the Magic, Artist by Artist by Julien Bitoun; Michael Lang (Foreword by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
A complete chronological account of Woodstock, hour by hour, performance by performance. Released to coincide with its 50th anniversary and with a foreword by festival co-founder, Michael Lang. Foreword by Woodstock co-founder, Michael Lang.3 days. 33 concerts. 2 deaths. 2 births. 500,000 people. And an ...Show more
50 Years of British Pop by Huw Pryce
$66.00 NZD
Category: Music
British pop has led the world since pop music began and its performers have obsessed and inspired generations. In a unique collection of contemporary photographs, this book shows the story of music in Britain from the 1950s to the present day. The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Cliff Richard, the Rolling Stones ...Show more
A Day in Paris by EARBOOKS
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music
This title includes book and 4 CDs. It contains text in English, German and French. "A Day in Paris" comes close to the enormous variety and typically French laissez-faire of Pairs in these images. In the morning, the city tour starts out in the centre of the town and continues through the different arr ...Show more
A Day in Rome by Andre Fichte
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music
This title features a book and 4 CDs. The text is available in English, German and Italian. A day in Rome means spending a whole day shopping, sightseeing and getting accustomed to the lifestyle in the Italian metropolis. Nowhere else do culture and lifestyle match as much as in Rome. From the Vatican t ...Show more