A Quick Ting On Afrobeats by Christian Adofo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Aqto Ser.
THE FIRST BOOK ON AFROBEATS Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent. The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting On Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous music genre, tracing ...Show more
A Seat at the Table: Women on the Frontline of Music by Amy Raphael
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
In Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock (Virago, 1995; published as Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas in the US by St Martin's Griffin, 1996), writer and critic Amy Raphael interviewed twelve female musicians, from Courtney Love to Kim Gordon, from Bjork to Kristin Hersh. As Debbie Harry wrote in the forew ...Show more
A Song for You - My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
The New York Times Bestseller After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next t ...Show more
AC/DC: Album by Album by Martin Popoff
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
AC/DC Album by Album is an in-depth discussion of each of the band's 16 studio albums by prolific rock journalist Martin Popoff and illustrated with phenomenal photography.Formed in 1973, AC/DC became one of the most popular and bestselling bands in rock history with their no-frills approach to loud, he ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald S. Passman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
No one understands the music business and the changes it has undergone in recent years better than LA lawyer Donald Passman. For 20 years his book has offered detailed advice to artists and executives, novices and experts alike on how to thrive in these volatile times. This completely revised 8th editio ...Show more
Always a Song - Singers, Songwriters, Sinners, and Saints - My Story of the Folk Music Revival by Ellen Harper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper--folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Mus ...Show more
American Utopia by David Byrne; Maira Kalman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's Am ...Show more
Amplified - A Design History of the Electric Guitar by Paul Atkinson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, this book explores how the electric guitar's design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. A heavily illustrated history with amps turned up to eleven, Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument ...Show more
Amy: A Life Through the Lens by Darren & Bloom Bloom
$54.95 AUD
Category: Music
Five-time Grammy award-winner and singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse burst onto the scene with her debut album Frank in 2003. Over the next eight years, the dichotomy between the jazzy soul singer's commercial success and private calamity kept her name in the tabloids and at the top of the charts as she re ...Show more
Amy Winehouse: In Her Words by The Amy Winehouse Foundation
$52.99 AUD
Category: Music
Global icon. Six-time Grammy winner. Headline-maker. The most talented recording artist of her generation. Much has been said about Amy Winehouse since her tragic death aged just 27. But who was the real Amy? Amy Winehouse: In Her Words shines a spotlight on her incredible writing talent, her wit, her ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more