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Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun
Author: Catrina Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It s about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether...
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
Author: Jennifer Lucy Allan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the...
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
Author: Richard Mainwaring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at...
Jazz on the Road. Don Albert's Musical Life
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Author: Christopher Wilkinson
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Number of Pages: 290
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
Author: Stephen Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Thrilling.' - John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before: it...
Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home
Author: Edward Dusinberre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English...
31 Songs
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In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music
Author: Nicholas Dawidoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem
Author: Mark Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a...
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond
Author: Chris Blackwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 As the founder of Island Records, fabled music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most important...
A Drop of Patience
Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...
Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim
Author: Peggy Guggenheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written...
A Field Guide to Punk
Author: Steve Wide Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 What makes Punk... Punk? We might all know the Sex Pistols from the opening bar of their songs. But how do...
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II
Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . ....
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The last book by one of Britain's most prominent public intellectuals is a superbly insightful and moving exploration of...
She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Author: Joan Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A stirring and eye-opening celebration of the enduring legacy of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill-released in 1998 and named "Best Album...
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony,...
Rave New World: Confessions of a Raving Reporter
'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughlyrecommended.' - FATBOY SLIM'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty.The perfect Ibiza holiday...
Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk
From post punk Liverpool and Big in Japan to producing and working with acts like Echo & The Bunnymen and The Fall, Ian Broudie established a cult following early in...
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
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One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). When artists and...
Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story
An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical...
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and...
Stick To My Roots: A Music Memoir
The autobiography of Tippa Irie, Stick To My Roots tells the reggae musician's incredible story - from his trailblazing beginnings in Saxon Sound International to the Grammy Award-nominated "Hey Mama"...
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980
*A Times Best Music Book of 2023 - 'For Bowie nuts this is research-heavy heaven'*'[Soligny] has talked to just about anyone who had anything to do with Bowie's music... Reading...
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century
Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....
The Making of Music
Author: James Naughtie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Our Music is the story of our musical history, its origins and it has shaped us. We have all grown up...
Beyonce
Author: Tshepo Mokoena Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Beyonce is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and...
Punk Perfect Awful: Beat: The Little Magazine that Could ...and Did.
Author: Hanna Hanra Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Drawing on a decade's worth of pioneering photography and journalism, Punk Perfect Awful is an irreverent love letter to music and...
I've Been There (and Back Again): Slim Dusty & Joy McKean's Lifetime of Travel, Stories and Songs. The Travelling Still Edition
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Larousse Encyclopaedia of Music
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Leonard Bernstein
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The Rise and Fall of Popular Music
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From The Ground Up: U2 360 Degrees Tour Official Photobook
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The Book of David
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Messiah: Highlights from Handel's Oratorio and Other Christmas Music
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A Field Guide to Grunge
Author: Steve Wide Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A Field Guide to ... delves into music's most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history...
Complete Opera Book
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The Oxford Companion to Music
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Scar Tissue
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Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man
Author: Guvna B Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Men are bold. Men are brave. Men are strong in the face of fear. But what happens when that...
Classical Destinations II: Great Cities and Their Music
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Thomas Ades: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
Author: Thomas Ades Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thomas Ades is feted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more...
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole
Author: Joan Koenig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a...
Victorian Blooms Lock and Key Diary (Refer 1860690963): The Boy from Oz
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Soul Rebel
Author: Burnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 In 1976, while on assignment in Jamaica for Time magazine, David Burnett photographed Bob Marley for the first time, and Burnett became...
Random House Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Music
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