Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
$44.99 AUD
Category: Music
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.There'd be no Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, down to cello-playing Ed Sheeran. Norman Lebrecht asks- why? Who was this titan of world culture? In 100 recordings, freely available on Idagio and YouTube, Lebrecht brings to life t ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A radical, literary and intimate insight into one of the twentieth century's most vital vocalists. In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmo ...Show more
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters by Tanya Pearson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Music Matters Ser.
A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist. First as a doe-eyed ingenue with 'As Tears Go By', then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-le ...Show more
Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found--what she fostered--was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door t ...Show more
Wild About You!: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand by Iain McIntyre
$54.99 AUD
Category: Music
The astonishing outpouring of rock 'n' roll in the 1960s in Australia and New Zealand gave birth to such iconic bands such as the Easybeats, the Masters Apprentices, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Purple Hearts and the Missing Links. It also launched the careers of a generation of musicians who would ...Show more
Wild Thing - The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, lucking at a broken ukul ...Show more
Woody Guthrie - Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom by Nora Guthrie; Robert Santelli
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music
America's greatest folk singer and songwriter, philosopher, political analyst, and man-of-the-people, Woody Guthrie and his passionate social politics and deep humanity are as crucial in the America of today as they were in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. He wrote well over 3,000 songs (including 'This L ...Show more
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, son ...Show more
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her ...Show more
Wu Tang Manual by RZA
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Since the release of the revolutionary Enter the Wu-Tang, this band has been Hip Hop's leading creative force. Over four seminal group albums, and a multitude of ambitious side projects, the Wu-Tang Clan have constantly redefined the outer limits of what Hip Hop can do and where Hip Hop can go. Spearhea ...Show more