Crowded House: Something So Strong by Chris Bourke
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Crowded house was one of the most successful bands ever to come out of New Zealand and Australia, with their debut album selling over one million copies in the US alone. In researching this biography, the author had unparalleled access to all the band members, as well as to their partners, friends, agen ...Show more
More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music by Garth Cartwright
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music
Armed only with a Greyhound ticket and enough money for his next beer, Garth Cartwright set out to see whether the American roots music he loved - blues and country, folk and soul - was still alive in the twenty-first century. His journey took him from the LA bus station to the Mexican cantinas of San A ...Show more
The Blues Guitar by Rick Batey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
If the story of the Blues is the story of a people, then the voice behind the story belongs indisputably to the guitar. This comprehensive history looks at the instruments and the players, from the birth of the blues to the present day. Rick Batey sets out to unravel the mystery and magic of the so ...Show more
Mozart by Peggy Woodford
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times.
The Concise Oxford History of Music by Gerald Abraham
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Concise Oxford History of Music, written by one of the world's most respected musicologists, remains the one-volume history for anyone seriously interested in the subject. This comprehensive work covers the whole history of music by genre from its first recorded emergence in Egypt to the death of St ...Show more
"My Chemical Romance" by Reinhardt Haydn
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music
My Chemical Romance emerged from New Jersey in the aftermath of the 9/11 atrocity to become the standard-bearers for a new fusion of punk, glam, and emo. MCR achieved global prominence in 2006 with the release of their platinum-selling album Welcome to the Black Parade. Extensive touring has added to th ...Show more
Bon: the Last Highway - The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black by Jesse Fink
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music
The legend of the man known around the world simply as 'Bon? only grows with each passing year - in death the AC/DC icon has become a god to millions of people - but how much of his story is myth and how much of the real man do we know?There have been books that claim to tell his story. They haven?t eve ...Show more
The Dave Grohl Story by Jeff Apter
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music
Loaded with candid interviews and hard truths about Grohl's life in music, this is the first comprehensive biography of an icon whose career charts rock and roll's rise and fall over the past two decades. This book details his drumming and touring with Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails and his ...Show more
Faithfully Mozart - The Fantastical World of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Donovan Bixley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
In this charming and very personal tribute, artist Donovan Bixley offers a portrait of the composer that will change forever the way he is viewed. Share in his triumphs and his despair, his laughter and his tears, as Mozart and his world are brought to vivid life in nearly one hundred original drawings ...Show more
Opera for Lovers by Kiri Te Kanawa; Conrad Wilson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music
A title in which Dame Kiri Te Kanawa talks of her love of opera and what it means to her, revealing her favourite composers and showing the various ways in which conductors interpret a work to different effect.
The Meaning of Tango (*SOR*) by Christine Denniston
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music
From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance.
External Combustion - Glenn a Baker on Music by Glenn A. Baker; Bob King (Photographer)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Extensively photographed selection of magazine and newspaper features and press releases written by rock journalist, manager and songwriter, Glenn A Baker. As well as interviews with international and Australian artists, the book discusses banned music, rock plagiarism and industry myths.