Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies by Garry Mulholland
15.00 NZD
Category: Music
From Blackboard Jungle to Quadrophenia, from 8 Mile to Abba: the Movie, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland, critically acclaimed author of This Is Uncool and Fear of Music, turns his focus away from classic records to the best, the wor ...Show more
Retromania : Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ...But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cult ...Show more
The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition by Harold C. Schonberg
40.00 NZD
49.99 (19% off)
Category: Music
In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD by Richard Cook
50.00 NZD
69.95 (28% off)
Category: Music
The world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism.
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition. minor marks & foxing on pages. minor crease at spine. Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have ...Show more
Big Bangs - The story of five discoveries that changed musical history by Howard Goodall
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Music
The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'? What do we mean by "in tune"? Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard Goodall guides us through the stories of five s ...Show more
The "Times" Opera Notes by Robert Thicknesse
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Times Opera Notes is witty and opinionated, to be enjoyed by both opera buffs and those who simply need to bluff themselves through a 'cultured' night out. The Times Opera Notes has full coverage of major works by, among more than thirty others, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Handel a ...Show more