The Musicians' Joke Book by James Green
$22.90 NZD
Category: Music
Most professions have their own jokes, but musicians seem to have more than their fair share. Perhaps it's the insane travel schedule, the bad lodgings or just lack of sleep. But as Jim Green says in his introduction, 'it's not surprising we're a band apart (so to speak), outcasts who seek only our own ...Show more
The Ninth : Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
$29.00 NZD
Category: Music
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, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
The North Will Rise Again by John Robb
$39.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Buzzcocks. Joy Division. The Fall. The Smiths. The Stone Roses. The Happy Mondays. Oasis. Manchester has proved to be an endlessly rich seam of pop-music talent over the last 30 years. Highly opinionated and usually controversial, stars such as Mark E. Smith, Morrissey, Ian Brown and the Gallagher b ...Show more
The Olivetti Chronicles by John Peel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows pretty much defined popular culture as it emerged and shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, Home Truths, became required listening for millions. But all the while, Peel was also ...Show more
The Olivetti Chronicles by John Peel
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, "Home Truths", became required listening for millions. But all the while, Peel was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter, cre ...Show more
The Oxford Companion To Jazz by Bill Kirchner
$85.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Oxford Companions
Jazz and its colourful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of sixty essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Both a reference book and an engaging read, the Companion surveys the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa and Europe until t ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings by Tony Russell
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
From its roots in the American South to today's world stage, the journey of the blues has encompassed countless artists and recordings. But how can you find the best of them? The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings is a uniquely informative, insightful and easy-to-use guide through the jungles of the ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Classical Music by Paul Griffiths
$75.00 NZD
Category: Music
This superbly authoritative new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of classical music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), perf ...Show more
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music
These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes - changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Ly ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
First published in the 1920's, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century. The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement, yet it ...Show more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
$41.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more