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There are cities that have made an indelible mark on music as incubators of genres that changed, and are changing, history. These are their stories. From London told by Blur...

Paulie Stewart AO is an Australian rock legend. He's also a legend of the movement advocating for the freedom of East Timor and West Papua. In this tell-all, highly entertaining...

Finding the right rhyme can be excruciating, songwriters too often choosing ridiculous words in desperation. This is an invaluable resource for any budding songwriter or even an experienced lyricist with...

Finding the right rhyme can be excruciating, songwriters too often choosing ridiculous words in desperation. This is an invaluable resource for any budding songwriter or even an experienced lyricist with...

Pink Floyd are one of the most iconic and influential rock bands in the world: their sonic ambition, lyrical dexterity and structural ability are unparalleled in rock music. Since their...

The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and exclusive interviews with surviving members. Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965,...

A chronological review of the most essential and heaviest metal and hard rock albums, illustrated throughout, demonstrating the global popularity of the genre and just how much it has grown....

Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestseller The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers...

With their era-defining music and instantly recognisable look, Chic's reputation as pioneers of disco has endured long after the movement itself. After their initial success in the 1970s with classics...

Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on...

'A forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them . . . completely definitive' MOJO ????? The story of Manic Street Preachers is...

Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend...

The book titled The Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues by the author Keith HSadwick. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A wonderful book' ELTON JOHN 'Beautiful, insightful and honest' CILLIAN MURPHY 'A fascinating read' DON LETTS As one-third of seminal band Cocteau Twins, Simon Raymonde helped to create some of...

Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it? In this unpretentious and instructive book, internationally celebrated conductor...

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s-a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of 'the scene'...

Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making...

'It's funny how most people love the dead. Once you're dead you're made for life' Jimi Hendrix A biography of the world's greatest guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, by international bestselling author...

This book is a complete approach to musical study, from the first note you read to the beginnings of harmony. It simplifies music theory into easy logical steps, clearly written...

Martin Cooper (1910-86), was one of the leading critics of the post-war period and chief music critic of "The Daily Telegraph" from 1954-7 as well as a broadcaster and author...

Derived from the full "Oxford Dictionary of Music", this is an authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of music. Fully revised and updated for this new edition, it is a mine of...

The ultimate listening party guide, Booze and Vinyl shows you how to set the mood for 70 great records from the 1950s through the 2000s. From modern craft cocktails to...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become one of the world's most enduringly beloved composers. Ranging from "Swan Lake" to "Eugene Onegin", from the "Pathetique" to "Romeo and Juliet", his work is...

How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny? Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring...

The principal concern of the law of torts is to repair accident losses. but its role has altered over the years as a result of such factors as the wider...

Whilst no one would dispute Richard Wagner's ranking amongst the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than any other composer's....

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio...

A beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a...

The book titled Amiscellany: My Life, My Music by the author John Amis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Unfinished Journey by the author Yehudi Menuhin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Prima Donna: A History by the author Rupert Christiansen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Russian musicians have left an indelible mark on 20th-century music. From composers to musicians, the Russian 'school' is admired universally. This book contains essays on the following great Russian musicians:...

"It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer.... [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a...

Herbert von Karajan, the conductor, died in 1989 at the age of 81. His career was one of the most controversial in the history of classical music; he was dogged...

No composer has had a greater influence on the music of the twentieth century than Gustav Mahler. And in Mahler Remembered, Norman Lebrecht, an acknowledged authority on the life and...

Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference...

Robert Craft worked alongside Stravinsky during the last 23 years of the composer's life, collaborating with him in writing books and conducting his music. Now he has taken a further...

Elizabeth Wilson's life of Jaqueline Du Pre is authorized by Barenboim and has exclusive access to familly papers. She has tracked down hitherto unheard recordings, and the book is the...

Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public...

This superbly authoritative new work provides a comprehensive A to Z guide to every aspect of some 1000 years of Western music.

No one has had a better seat in the house than George Wein. The legendary impresario has known the most celebrated figures of music in general and jazz in particular-...

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has...

"What an impossible novel my life is!" Berlioz wrote in 1832 to his friend Albert Du Boys. To his sister Adele, "I am absorbed continually by the strangeness, the romanticness...

'A forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them . . . completely definitive' MOJO ????? The story of Manic Street Preachers is...

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches. Since...

A totally righteous collection of tunes! From hair metal to the King of Pop, these 100 best-selling albums made up the soundtrack of the '80s. The wild success of artists...

(Book). Popular music's queer DNA is inarguable, from Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, from cross-dressing Kurt Cobain to "female Elvis" k.d. lang. Regardless, gay and lesbian...