Well of Souls - Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy; Rhiannon Giddens (Foreword by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved peopl ...Show more
Wendy Carlos Switched-On Bach 33 1/3 by Roshanak Kheshti
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold War and Carlos's gender to this critically importa ...Show more
Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Ridgeley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM ONE HALF OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BANDS For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friendship with George Michael and the formation of a band that changed the shape of the music scene in the early eighties. 'I couldn't put ...Show more
Wham, George and Me by Andrew Ridgeley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Wham! were the band that never underestimated the power of pop, nor the healing powers it possessed. In 1981, what started out as a boyhood friendship, catapulted two suburban adolescents to worldwide pop domination, becoming icons of their era. While Andrew Ridgeley may have appeared to have stood in G ...Show more
What Is It All But Luminous by Art Garfunkel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel--a memoir (of sorts)- artful, moving, lyrical; the making of a musician; the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and collaboration that became one of the most successful singing duos of their time. Art Garfunkel writ ...Show more
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy; David Ritz
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Category: Music
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute ...Show more
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai by Matti Friedman
$44.99 AUD
Category: Music
"An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the world's greatest songwriters."--Haaretz "Not only is a hidden side of Cohen revealed but so too a hidden side of Israel." --David Bezmogis The little-known story of Leonard Cohen's concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including ne ...Show more
Who I Am by Melanie C
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Category: Music
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls. For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was ...Show more
Who Killed John Lennon? - The Lives, Loves and Deaths of the Greatest Rock Star by Lesley-Ann Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
A compelling new book that unravels the enigma of John Lennon from acclaimed music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones.
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
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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
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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