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Man Enough to Be a Woman
'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up' Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding...
MusicQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Music
Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy - causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what...
Truly
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating perspective on a great pop story.' Sunday Times 'A career this packed with highs - and personal lows - makes for dream memoir fodder.'...
A Mingled Chime: Leaves From An Autobiography
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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsOne of the most flamboyant and commanding figures in twentieth-century classical music, Sir Thomas Beecham tells his own story...
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of art and commerce, a half-century of American musical genius comes to life in American...
A Song Of Love And Death: The Meaning Of Opera
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOpera has always been an art form of breathtaking extremes — of soaring passion, devastating tragedy, and the...
The Days Grow Short: The Life And Music Of Kurt Weill
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew lives in twentieth-century music were as dramatically bifurcated as that of Kurt Weill — a German-Jewish composer who rose to international fame in...
Musical Stages: An Autobiography
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of American musical theatre loom as large as Richard Rodgers, the composer whose melodies became the very soundtrack of...
The Street Where I Live: The Story Of My Fair Lady, Gigi And Camelot
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the glittering curtain of Broadway's golden age lies a story of genius, collaboration, and the relentless pursuit of perfection — and Alan Jay...
Beecham Remembered
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in the history of British music commanded a stage — literal or metaphorical — quite like Sir Thomas...
A Social History Of English Music
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the rowdy taverns of medieval England to the grand concert halls of the Victorian era, A Social History of English Music charts the...
Stravinsky In Conversation With Robert Craft
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artistic dialogues in the twentieth century rival the candour and intellectual richness of the exchanges between Igor...
Bessie: Empress Of The Blues
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShe was the highest-paid Black entertainer of the 1920s, a woman of volcanic talent and fierce independence who...
The Wagner Companion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Western music have provoked as much reverence, controversy, and scholarly fascination as Richard...
The Mozart Companion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Western music have inspired such enduring fascination as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and The...
The Baroque Concerto
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: FEP missing.In an era when polyphonic grandeur met mathematical precision,...
Liszt
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFranz Liszt — virtuoso, visionary, and...
Classic And Romantic Music: A Comprehensive Survey
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of two of Western music's most transformative eras stands Friedrich Blume's authoritative Classic and Romantic...
The Oxford Companion To Music
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Some moisture damageA cornerstone of musicological literature, The Oxford Companion to Music by Percy A. Scholes stands as one of the most ambitious and...
Parallels And Paradoxes: Explorations In Music And Society (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Inscribed by Edward W. SaidWhat happens when two of the twentieth century's most formidable intellectual and artistic minds sit...
Benjamin Britten 1913-1976: Pictures From A Life
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century classical music cast as long a shadow as Benjamin Britten, and Benjamin Britten 1913–1976: Pictures from a Life stands as...
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...
Prince: A Sign o' the Times
There are pop stars, and then there is Prince. In this kaleidoscopic, freewheeling biography, John McKie examines the remarkable life and career of one of the most mysterious figures in...
Prince: A Sign o' the Times
There are pop stars, and then there is Prince. In this kaleidoscopic, freewheeling biography, John McKie examines the remarkable life and career of one of the most mysterious figures in...
Written By Mrs Bach
Did Mrs Bach write some of our greatest musical works? It's not often that one of the world's greatest composers is accused of plagiarising his wife's work, but an Australian...
Duet: An Artful History of Music
'A sensational book. Chan roves across her vast subject with confidence and grace, thrilling the reader with one eye-opening insight after another. I will never see art, and hear music,...
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop
The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry...
Hark: How Women Listen
AN INDEPENDENT 'BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025' We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like,...
Hark: How Women Listen
AN INDEPENDENT 'BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025' We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like,...
Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's life - and premature death - has long been mythologised and misunderstood. John Suchet draws back the curtain to show us the real man behind the music....
Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and
Beginning his career as a club DJ and disco producer in the early-70s in his native Boston, Arthur Baker moved to New York City in 1981 and in the summer...
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Moonlight Serenade, Sunrise Serenade, Little Brown Jug, In the Mood... These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times....
While the Music Lasts: A Memoir of Music, Grief and Joy
An illuminating, witty and highly moving story of making and listening to music and its role and impact on grief When her father dies, music historian and trombonist Dr Emily...
Nat King Cole: A Personal and Professional Biography
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The book titled Nat King Cole: A Personal and Professional Biography by the author James Haskins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Desert Dreams: The Music, Style, and Allure of Coachella
Immerse yourself in the music, the fashion, and the hype of one of the biggest music festivals in the world. Coachella is considered one of the most profitable and widely...
Fender Telecaster: 75 Years
Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Telecaster 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar. Embraced for its simplicity and adaptability, the Fender (R) Telecaster (R)...
Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe 1900-1916
From the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada, the early part of this century saw a series of avant-garde movements in European literature, music, and painting, which fundamentally...
Desert Dreams: The Music, Style, and Allure of Coachella
Immerse yourself in the music, the fashion, and the hype of one of the biggest music festivals in the world. Coachella is considered one of the most profitable and widely...
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
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In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the...
Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini
Serving Genius tells the life story of Carlo Maria Giulini, one of the most renowned and beloved conductors of the twentieth century. Detailing Giulini's extraordinary professional career, Thomas D. Saler...
Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania under the Mirror Ball
This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from Black and Latin queer culture to take...
Young Liszt
Joins the writing team's earlier efforts on Mozart and Chopin. Focuses on Liszt's (1811-86) life and career between his birth until 1835 when his fame as a pianist and composer...
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
The new edition of this compact and practical reference book takes into account recent research in music history and also gives full coverage of the development of music in the...
Words & Music: Press Barons, Prima Donnas, Coping With The Abc...
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the glittering curtain of Australia's most powerful media empires and cultural institutions lies a world of clashing egos, boardroom battles, and artistic temperament...
Musical Boxes
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew objects capture the romance of a bygone era quite like the musical box — a marvel of miniature engineering that filled Victorian parlours...
Your Friend Alberto Zelman: The Story Of Alberto Zelman And The Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA remarkable life dedicated to music unfolds in Your Friend Alberto Zelman, a biography that chronicles the extraordinary...
The Barbed Wire Waltz: The Memoirs Of The Last Waltz King
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great waltz lies a story of survival — and The Barbed Wire Waltz: The...
Max Oldaker: Last Of The Matinee Idols
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the glittering crossroads of stage, screen, and song stood Max Oldaker — a name that once electrified audiences across Australia and Britain, and...