Performing Arts

From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Kylie, the Australian princess of pop! Little Kylie grew up with her parents and her...

The book titled The Album of "Dance to the Music of Time" by the author Anthony Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Now, after more than ten years, this famous work of the stories of more than 300 of the world's great operas has been entirely revised, updated, expanded, and reset in...

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...

A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world, and how the world became fascinated with Shakespeare Ranging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred years, Worlds Elsewhere is...

"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...

Following her 2021 bestselling memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her comes the laugh out loud follow-up Hexy B*tch . 'My life's changed a lot since This Country came out....

'A wonderful book, I don't expect to read a better memoir for a very long time.' ROBERT WEBB, author of How Not To Be A Boy 'Funny and heart breaking...

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...

Put on your dancing shoes and twirl around with this giftable collection of three Angelina Ballerina board books with rounded edges! All three books come in a carry-along boxed set...

(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...

'An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats' - BILL BAILEY 'I loved this book. Absolutely adored it. I devoured it and savoured every word....

Both as a dancer and a choreographer, Jose Limon electrified audiences from the1930s to the 1960s. With his striking looks and charismatic presence, he was American modern dance's first male...

Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become...

Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and...

Long Live is a deep-dive into the cultural phenomenon of Swifties as well as the many facets of the artist herself. From MySpace comments to T-Party invites to Secret Sessions...

Why does anyone still bother with classical music?How can the string quartets of Brahms or the symphonies of Beethoven possibly be relevant in our post-9/11 world?In this stimulating and provocative...

A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a...

Long recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice, this re-issue includes a new introduction by Professor Reilly. In spite of its title, it is...

In this unique tribute, journalist and award-winning author Pete Hamill remembers Frank Sinatra. Drawing upon intimate conversations over many years, Hamill evokes the essence of Sinatra - examining his art...

Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the...

Designed for courses in visual art and critical theory, this analysis of the contemporary art scene in Australia concentrates on performance art.

After leaving Wernham-Hogg, David Brent has been working as a rep selling cleaning (and ladies personal hygiene) products up and down the country, but he hasn't given up his dream...

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'...

For more than sixty years Ken Dodd discomknockerated audiences in packed venues across Britain with his unique blend of madcap humour. Despite his advancing years he continued to perform his...

WHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. It was the beginning of a...

Ariana Treasure loves helping her friends and Maya definitely needs her help. There's a talent show at school, but Maya thinks she has no talent. To add to Maya's dilemma,...

Penn Jillette's New York Times bestselling account of his "extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle...that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions" ( The Washington...

Part memoir, part explanation as to why men are so rubbish. When Jon Holmes became a father (twice), he was asked to fill in a form detailing his family medical...

The book titled Tchaikovsky: A Biography by the author Anthony Holden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first comprehensive biography of one of the most significant--and most popular--composers of the 20th century. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

A splendid study of Chekhov, this book is primarily an original, sympathetic and wonderfully insightful account of his evolution as a writer, especially of short stories.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date - a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up...

Fleetwood Mac's iconic album Rumours is more popular and acclaimed now than ever and attracts listeners across generations- Don ' t Stop celebrates the album's unlikely creation, surprising longevity, and...

The third book in the No. 1 global bestselling They Both Die at the End series. What if you could find out your death date from a single phone call?...

Nik Cohn on Bounce in New Orleans Richard Sennett: why he stopped playing in public Hugo Williams: Dr Feelgood Richard Williams: Frank Sinatra Philip Hensher: the accident that robbed him...

Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou...

In Mars By 1980 , David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through to the ubiquitous, familiar sounds of...

Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far is a candid and inspiring biography that chronicles the meteoric rise of Stormzy, one of the UK's most influential grime artists and cultural...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the esteemed Musical Pilgrim series published by Oxford University Press,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A fascinating survey of the Romantic era in classical music, The Music...

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