Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
37.99 NZD
Category: Music
How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselv ...Show more
Fender 75 Years (HB) by Dave Hunter
79.99 NZD
Category: Music
Ubiquitous in the music world, Fender guitars and amplifiers are also icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable. Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the company and its legendary instrument ...Show more
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
"...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging me ...Show more
Bad Boy Boogie: The true story of AC/DC legend Bon Scott by Jeff Apter
36.99 NZD
Category: Music
The life, death and rock'n'roll rollercoaster career of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. Australia has produced any number of great rock and roll frontmen and women. But none has left quite the same mark as AC/DC's Bon Scott. No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called his words 'toilet poetry', h ...Show more
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy and Whole by Joan Koenig
32.99 NZD
Category: Music
A pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development –and how parents and caregivers can harness it’s power. Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children’s lives and minds with the tra ...Show more
Dave Brubeck: a Life in Time by Philip Clark
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with the critical insight that it deserves - ***** BBC Music Magazine This is the writing about jazz that we've been waiting ...Show more
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth by Michael Spitzer
32.99 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
Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of a Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones
36.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones, in her own words. ...Show more
Bob Dylan: The Stories Behind the Songs, 1962-69 by Andy Gill
55.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Stories Behind the Songs Ser.
In Bob Dylan: The Stories Behind the Songs, 1962-69, Andy Gill analyzes Dylan's most famous output in detail.
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
75.00 NZD
Category: Music
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million (and $64 million in tax relief). As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Dylan behind the Shades (199 ...Show more
Cruel To Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
'Brilliant biography of an undersung late-blooming treasure . . . subtly profound as well as wickedly entertaining, this biography does its subject scintillating justice' Mojo Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at ...Show more
Vinyl Age: A Guide to Record Collecting Now by Max Brzezinski
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services, digital t ...Show more