Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
Category: Music
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
Category: Music
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
Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100 by Tom W Clarke
Category: Music
The Hottest 100 is a national institution.Every year since 1993, Australia's national youth broadcaster triple j has held annual countdown of listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It's as iconic of modern Australiana as sausage sizzles and leadership spills. It has become s ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Little Book About Music: Quotes for the Melophile in Your Life by Unnamed
Category: Music | Series: The\Little Books of Music Ser.
From the classical era to modern day, this little book is full of lines from composers, musicians and writers. You will find out what music means to those who love it most, the classical musicians, composers and the music devotees around the world. Forging our identities, setting our moods and impacting ...Show more
Full Coverage: A History of the Australian Rock Press by Samuel J. Fell
Category: Music
For over fifty years, Australia has maintained its own rock press - a vibrant, passionate, sometimes volatile industry of dozens of papers and magazines committed to the coverage of the country' s robust music scene.From the glossy and glamorous to the punk and pernicious, these publications were the me ...Show more
Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer by Tony Cohen, John Olson
Category: Music
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, Cold Chisel, The Cruel Sea and so many more'. The most obsessive, single-minded character I've ever seen, outside of the mirror' - Nick Cave. 'I first met Nic ...Show more
Music Hall Magic:The Wonder of the Wurlitzer & Electric Organ 3 CD collection
Category: Music
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
Category: Music
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focu ...Show more