Writing in the Sand by Matt Garrick
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Biography
Words are easy, words are cheap / Much cheaper than our priceless land / But promises can disappear / Just like writing in the sand -- From Yothu Yindi's 1992 ARIA Song of the Year, 'Treaty' Sometimes a musical revolution can explode from the most unlikely of places. Long before they were ARIA Hall of F ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Music Books
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Ingrid Bergman by David Thomson
$16.95 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Series: Great Stars
'Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, 'natural' Swedish girl - she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation'. Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Ingrid Berg ...Show more
Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys by Michael Lawrence
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Music Books
Cold Chisel are icons of Australian rock. Their 2011 'Light the Nitro' Tour sold more than 280,000 tickets, more than their own 'Last Stand' farewell tour and more than Powderfinger or John Farnham's final tours. They have sold more albums since they first broke up than they did before. Khe Sanh, When t ...Show more
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations by Greil Marcus
$41.95 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Series: William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Ci
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including "Mystery Train "and "The Shape of Things to Come, " traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between t ...Show more
Sweet Dreams - The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Reading Level: very good
Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of print and broa ...Show more
Classic and Vintage Guitars: 101 of the World's Most Beautiful and Desirable Instruments by Future Publishing Staff
$50.00 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Series: Y Ser.
This book contains beautiful, specially commissioned photographs of more than one hundred of the greatest guitars ever made, from original standard-issue Gibsons and Fenders to custom-built one-offs and pre-owned classics. Some guitars are works of art and are hugely valuable, either because of where th ...Show more
Ukulele for Beginners : How to Play Ukulele in Easy-to-follow Steps by Will Grove-White
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Reading Level: General Adult
The Ukulele: a noble little instrument, an irritating little instrument. Both views are valid, but for millions of people around the world, the ukulele is becoming the instrument of desire: a revolution in music is happening under our noses and its weapon of choice is a vertically challenged guitar. The ...Show more
Didjeridu Dreaming by Parker Adirian
$14.95 AUD
Category: New Music Books
Presents an informative overview of the manufacture, history, mythology and role of the didjeridu in Aboriginal society and includes simple lessons and exercises for those learning to play.
Gary Cooper by David Thomson
$16.95 AUD
Category: New Music Books | Series: Great Stars
'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, and ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight'. On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in "High Noon", or a tough individualist in "T ...Show more
Status Quo and the Kangaroo and other Rock Apocryphals by Jon Holmes (illus Roger Drew)
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Music Books
Why was Elton John's reworking of "Candle in the Wind" for Princess Diana a terrible, terrible mistake? Which rock star would regularly leave what unspeakable gift inside hotel room hairdryers? And did Omar Sharif and Ian Dury ever comes to blows and have to be separated by a Blockhead? Yes. With a cry ...Show more