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Grime: Documenting the scene's rise and reign
A special collectors edition packed with never-before-seen archival material, this is the definitive inside story of grime: raw, unfiltered, and impossible to ignore. 'A definitive history of the genre' -...
SINATRA
As the greatest of popular singers enters hi s ninth decade, this book celebrates his contribution to the arts. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and introd uced by U2''s...
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILLY BRAGG Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich....
The Origin of Hymns: It Is Well with My Soul
A written and visual complement to the critically acclaimed movie, I Can Only Imagine 2 . In The Origin of Hymns , Pastor Robert Morgan explores the history, evolution, and...
Rock Goes to College: The campus music scene that shaped a generation
The hectic, hugely entertaining, and definitive story of the wonderful and entirely amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world's most famous bands As...
The Songs That Saved Us: My Dad, Dementia and Me
An unforgettable tribute to the unbreakable bond between a father and son When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted's sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn't...
33 Revolutions Per Minute
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...
Gilbert And Sullivan
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the curtain of Victorian England's most celebrated theatrical partnership lies a story of creative genius, ego, and...
There's Music In My Madness: And Opera As Well
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, John Cargher was the irreverent, passionate, and brilliantly entertaining voice of classical music and opera on Australian radio, and There's Music in...
The Savoy Stories: Transcribed From The Gilbert And Sullivan Operas
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor lovers of wit, wordplay, and Victorian theatrical genius, The Savoy Stories presents a charming retelling of the beloved Gilbert and Sullivan operas, transformed...
A Song For Every Season: A Hundred Years Of A Sussex Farming Family
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...
The Little Chronicle Of Magdalena Bach
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...
Stories Of The Great Operas & Their Composers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: stained book blockFrom the thunderous drama of Verdi to the mythic grandeur of Wagner, Stories of the Great Operas &...
Famous Puccini Operas
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of operatic scholarship, Famous Puccini Operas by Spike Hughes is the definitive...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Sorrow Tears and Blood
Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the...
The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and
Named a best book of the year by BookPage and California Review of Books From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the...
Wildfire: My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy
Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to...
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums
$15.00 AUD
The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way:...
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize
When Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a...
Moving in Stereo: Ric Ocasek, the Driving Force of The Cars
The sounds of new wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that...
Queer Musicals: Boy Meets Boy to Jagged Little Pill
What links the shows La Cage aux Folles, Kinky Boots and BARE ? When was the first Queer musical produced on Broadway? How has queerness evolved in the context of...
Drumming at the Edge of Magic
The book titled Drumming at the Edge of Magic by the author Mickey Hart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Satie Remembered
From "Gymnopedies" to the scandalous ballet "Relache", Erik Satie's creations are paradoxical and extraordinary, and the mask the composer created for himself was as deliberately ambiguous as his music. This...
Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others
$40.00 AUD
Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a...
The Nibelung's Ring
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew artistic achievements in Western civilization match the ambition and grandeur of Richard Wagner's monumental opera cycle, and...
The Hoffnung Music Festival
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew books capture the anarchic joy of music-making quite like The Hoffnung Music Festival, a riotous celebration of...
Chopin: The Man And His Music
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the pantheon of Western classical music inspire as much devotion—and as much myth—as...
Music And Morals
$30.00 AUD
Edition: Twelfth EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of aesthetic philosophy and moral inquiry stands Music and Morals, the...
A Companion To Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: Bar-To-Bar Analysis
$25.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerFew...
Alexander Wood's The Physics Of Music
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 7th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of science and art stands one of the most enduring works in acoustics: The Physics of Music,...
A Concise History Of Music
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the ancient modes of medieval chant to the sweeping harmonies of the Romantic era, A Concise History...
The Oxford Companion To Music
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew reference works have earned a place as enduring and authoritative as The Oxford Companion to Music —...
Beethoven: A Documentary Study
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of Western music loom as large or as luminously as Ludwig van Beethoven, and Beethoven: A Documentary Study...
The New Oxford Companion To Music (Two-Volume Set)
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA monumental achievement in musicological scholarship, The New Oxford Companion to Music stands as the definitive two-volume reference work for anyone serious about...
The Book Of The Piano
$25.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew instruments have commanded the cultural, artistic, and emotional authority of the piano — and The Book of the Piano,...
Fred Astaire
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew performers in the history of Hollywood have achieved the mythic status of Fred Astaire — a man whose name became synonymous with elegance,...
The World Of Jazz
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew art forms have shaped the soul of the twentieth century quite like jazz — and The World of Jazz by Rodney Dale stands...
The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Jazz
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the smoky clubs of New Orleans to the concert halls of the world, jazz has shaped the...
Liza! Liza!: An Unauthorized Biography Of Liza Minnelli
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew entertainers have burned as brightly—or as turbulently—as Liza Minnelli, the daughter of Hollywood royalty who carved out...
Life Of Beethoven
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most monumental works of musical biography ever written, Alexander Thayer's Life of Beethoven stands as the definitive chronicle of Ludwig van...
Kylie Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour 2005
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; worn edges. A testament to Kylie Minogue's enduring status as a global entertainment phenomenon, this programme illustrates...
Kylie Showgirl: Homecoming Tour
$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew pop icons have demonstrated the kind of resilience and raw theatrical magnetism that Kylie Minogue brought to...
Bernie Taupin: The One Who Writes The Words For Elton John: Complete Lyrics From 1968 To Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedBefore Elton John became a global phenomenon, there was a quiet, visionary poet crafting the words that would define...
Memoirs
For more than 40 years Nana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties Greece to her unstoppable rise to the summit of her...
Musica: 1 000 Years Of Classical Music
This lavishly illustrated book provides the definitive reference to Western classical music. It travels on a musical journey through time, revealing how composers and performers, priests, princes and patrons, and...
Dan Alexander Audio: A Vintage Odyssey
Dan Alexander Audio reveals the origins and history of vintage recording gear, told by the man who coined the term. It discusses the products of 22 manufacturers, illustrated with over...