Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti (ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music
Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than any novel or film. These records don' ...Show more
A History of Music for Children by Mary Richards, David Schweitzer
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
Embark on a musical journey around the world to meet the diverse cast of composers, musicians, and performers who are famous for making the music we love. From Johann Sebastian Bach to Billie Eilish, Hildegard of Bingen to DJ Kool Herc, Wolfgang Mozart to Miriam Makeba, musicians come from many differen ...Show more
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth by Michael Spitzer
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music
'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible - a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' - Daniel Levitin 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago was the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we hav ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Travel
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times ... 'Richly absorbing' Guardian... 'Hooks you in from the start' Times... 'Masterful' Independent... 'Hugely compelling' Observer... 'Wonderful' Financial Times Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. ...Show more
Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 by Richard Thompson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.” —The Wall Street JournalAn intimate look at the early years of one of the world’s most significant ...Show more
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Dolly Parton is the reigning queen of country music, an iconic artist in command of her own career and image, and a thriving business empire to boot. But her rise was not an easy one: born into poverty in east Tennessee, she left for Nashville at 18 with her belongings in three paper bags. Even as she s ...Show more
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The compelling story of Mahler's titanic Eighth Symphony. 'Thrilling.' - John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before: it would speak in different tones, and of a different kind of experience. The world premiere in Munich in the summer ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, vinyl, and the music press, to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, from Rock Around the Clock to Crazy In Love. It was more than just music - it could ...Show more
The Band Photographs 1968-1969 by Elliott Landy
$81.21 NZD
Category: Music
Once in a while a photographer gains the trust of an artist or a band, and his work fuses with that of the artist in such a way that the two become married in the public consciousness. One can think of David Duncan's pictures of Picasso at work or Alfred Wertheimer's pictures of Elvis backstage in 1956. ...Show more
Bus Stops on the Moon - Red Mole Days 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participant' ...Show more
American Utopia by David Byrne; Maira Kalman
$53.00 NZD
Category: Music
A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's Am ...Show more
Dolly Parton: Songteller - My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Robert K. Oermann
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated throughout with previously unpublished imag ...Show more