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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£16.99
£15.29
Explores most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. This title charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies. It also brings right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.
Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
£25.00
£22.50
Traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. This book provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years.
Psychedelia and Other Colours
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
£20.00
£18.00
Fifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, the author, an acclaimed music writer explores what was really going on during those heady times. In America, he traces the multi-media history of the Light shows, Happenings, Be-Ins and Acid tests, and illustrates the thriving avant-garde scene that existed long before the Grateful Dead.
Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies
Paperback,
09/09/2011,
£25.00
£22.50
Technologies are revolutionizing the music business. This title provides a legal and business road map for success in today's music business by setting forth a summary of the rules pertaining to the traditional music business, including music licensing, as well as the laws governing online distribution of music and video.
Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness
Hardback,
31/08/2017,
£16.99
£15.29
A tale of loving, living and surviving rock music
Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£10.99
£9.89
Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in 1991, grunge became a household word overnight and launched an American music movement on a par with punk and hip-hop. This book tells the whole story.
Ruth and Martin's Album Club
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
The concept behind the Ruth and Martin's Album Club blog is simple: Make people listen to a classic album they've never heard before. What follows are delightful, humorous and insightful contributions from each guest as they have an album forced upon them and - for better or worse - they discover some of the world's favourite music.
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Paperback,
23/11/2017,
£10.99
£9.89
Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami fulfills a personal dream, sitting down with his friend, acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa, to talk about their shared interest.
Energy Flash
Paperback,
21/08/1998,
£12.99
£11.69
Tells the story of rave culture and explores the origins of this dance music, chronicling the ways in which its reverberations have influenced 1990s pop. Examining the music as well as the drugs, this book includes how Chicago house and Detroit techno catalyzed the "Madchester" ferment of 1988-90.
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
Paperback,
02/11/2017,
£16.99
£15.29
'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' Daniel Miller, Mute RecordsOne of the most tangible aftershocks of punk was its prompt to individuals: do it yourself.
Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision
Paperback,
28/02/2017,
£13.99
£12.59
An exploration of the unswerving artistic vision underlying Beethoven's symphonies, from a leading scholar of the composer's works.
Messiah
Paperback,
14/12/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
The story of the composition, first performances and cultural afterlife of one of the best-loved and most widely performed works in the entire history of music.
Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
HOLD TIGHT is a book about being black, British and born after 1980. It's also about Grime. Celebrating over fifty key songs that make up Grime's DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK. Insightful and very funny HOLD TIGHT rolls deep, giving a context to Grime that hasn't been given before.
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977
Paperback,
01/03/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
Paperback,
08/03/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
A rollercoaster new history for the 50th anniversary of the `Summer of Love', from a music business veteran who was actually there.
Swing Under the Nazis: Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom
Paperback,
05/09/2000,
£13.99
£12.59
For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock 'n' roll is today.
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
Paperback,
05/04/2018,
£11.99
£10.79
A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the Year
LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early 1950s, skiffle - a uniquely British take on American folk and blues - caused a sensation among a generation of kids who had grown up during the dreary post-war years.
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
Paperback,
03/02/2005,
£12.99
£11.69
The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King's assassination, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. This book shows us how one volatile year helped shape us into who we are.
Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss
Paperback,
07/03/2013,
£15.99
£14.39
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZEHow do you lose music?
Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed
Hardback,
13/09/2018,
£25.00
£22.50
A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires
Under My Thumb: Songs that hate women and the women who love them
Paperback,
19/10/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn't love them back - a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.
Mozart: The Man Revealed
Hardback,
29/09/2016,
£25.00
£20.00
The illustrated life story of the world's most beloved composer
Beethoven: The Man Revealed
Paperback,
27/04/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
John Suchet's acclaimed biography of the greatest composer the world has ever known
Verdi: The Man Revealed
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
£25.00
£20.00
Genius, patriot, pessimist, atheist: a fascinating exploration of Italy's best-loved composer, Giuseppe Verdi
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Paperback,
17/12/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar. This book deals with her life and work.
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?: And 87 Other Serious Answers to Questions in Songs
Hardback,
30/10/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
A book of hilarious and fascinating answers to the most famous questions posed in pop songs, using data, facts and science.
Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
Paperback,
29/11/2018,
£10.99
£9.89
The essential account of rave culture today.
Canterbury Catch Club 1826: Music in the Frame
Paperback,
01/01/2019,
£80.99
£60.99
In 1825, an enterprising Canterbury newsagent by the name of Henry Ward raised a subscription to commission a lasting tribute to his beloved musical society.
Popular Music: The Key Concepts 4ed
Paperback,
29/03/2017,
£26.99
£24.29
Revision of: Popular music culture / Roy Shuker. 3rd edition. 2012.
Dark Stuff
Paperback,
07/02/2019,
£6.99
£6.29
In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are unimaginable in the world of today's market driven music business.
Girl in a Band
Paperback,
07/02/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story.
Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life, Girl in a Band is a moving, evocative chronicle of an extraordinary artist.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Paperback,
07/02/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring with the Clash, dating Mick Jones, inspiring "Train in Vain," releasing her solo debut in 2012, and much more in this honest and entertaining memoir.
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Paperback,
07/02/2019,
£6.99
£6.29
An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time-travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity - Electric Eden will be treasured by anyone interested in the tangled story of Britain's folk music and Arcadian dreams.
Big Book of Classical Music: 1000 Years of Classical Music in 366 Days
Hardback,
04/09/2014,
£30.00
£25.00
The ultimate classical music companion, a beautifully illustrated page-a-day guide to the year in classical music.
Secret DJ
Paperback,
06/06/2019,
£10.99
£9.89
DISCOVER THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A SUPERSTAR DJ IN THIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF WHAT REALLY GOES ON BEHIND THE BPMs.
The glamour, the parties, the excess, the highs and, of course, the lows.
Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
In 1980, Houghton set up his own PR company, Brassneck Publicity, and for the next 20 years the list of his charges reads like a who's who of some of the greatest, most influential, and most dysfunctional cult groups of the post-punk era and beyond. It is his indefatigable belief that it was always the music that came first.
When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£10.99
£9.89
Built around 16 life-changing gigs and concerts, a passionate investigation of the charged frontier between 20th century music and politics.
Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin
Paperback,
01/08/2013,
£16.99
£12.00
What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage that protected them, from Peter Grant to Richard Cole to Ahmet Ertegun, giant figures from long-vanished world of 1970s rock. This book is a history, adventures, myths and realities of this legendary and powerful of bands.
Across The Great Divide
Paperback,
03/07/2003,
£17.99
£15.00
Starting out as a backing group for Ronnie Hawkins, before being propelled on to the world stage by Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums.
Say it One Time for the Broken Hearted: Country Side of Southern Soul
Paperback,
27/08/1998,
£14.99
£13.49
In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul music of the 60s. Full of personal interviews, this book goes in search of the artists behind this blend of music.
Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology
Paperback,
03/11/2016,
£14.99
£12.00
An anthology of the most incisive commentary on the extraordinary career of Joni Mitchell.
Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
Paperback,
06/09/2018,
£9.99
£8.00
A Rock's Backpages anthology, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns, of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century.
Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium
Hardback,
07/02/2019,
£20.00
£10.00
A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.
History of Western Music 10ed
Paperback,
08/02/2019,
£45.99
£41.39
The definitive history of Western Music.
Round Britain Quiz Book: 250 challenging questions from Radio 4's cult quiz show
Hardback,
17/10/2019,
£12.99
£11.69
'The nerdiest and longest-running quiz around' The SpectatorHave you got what it takes to tackle Radio 4's most fiendish quiz? Can you explain?*The Round Britain Quiz is the oldest broadcast quiz anywhere in the world.
Rock & Roll A Level
Hardback,
17/10/2019,
£12.99
£11.69
The Rock and Roll A Level is here to rescue the pop quiz from the grip of bores who know the chart position of everything and the value of nothing.
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