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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
The Ministry of Truth - A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a ...Show more
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