Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
34.99 AUD
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
Captain Thunderbolt's Recital by Jane Jolly
12.36 AUD
24.99 (50% off)
Category: NLA Children's Books
Age range 4+Captain Thunderbolt was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’. He didn’t like violence, was always polite, and even paid back most of the money he stole. In Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital, author Jane Jolly retells the true tale of one of the bushranger’s most famous robberies with comic effect ...Show more
New York City Glow (Graphic) by Rachel Coad
34.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
A snake, an octopus and the near death of Johnny Ramone. The almost true account of the 1977 New York City blackout.Set in the 1970s, the story's capstone is the 1977 New York City blackout.Ray the snake is a sad, lonely, middle aged insurance salesman from Midway Kentucky, looking for a better life. St ...Show more
No Bull by Linda Bull, Vika Bull
35.00 AUD
Category: Music
While most music careers stalled during the pandemic, Vika and Linda Bull soared with two chart-topping albums as they became beacons of warmth in uncertain times. For three decades they were best known as backing singers and collaborators to some of Australia's biggest artists, but it was when the worl ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Stanley is both a fine writer and an impassioned celebrant of pop in all its mongrel, misfit glory.'STUART MACONIE, THE TIMESThere have been many books on pop music but none have attempted to chart its entire story, from thedawn of the charts in the fifties to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
A sumptuously illustrated history of opera brought to life by stunning photography, following the same format as Ballet- The Definitive Illustrated HistoryExperience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide. Immerse yourself in more than 75 year ...Show more
Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics by Bill Peel
27.99 AUD
Category: Music
Tonight It's a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism. Tonight It's a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music. Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal i ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
26.00 AUD
Category: Music
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
The Music Photography Wendy McDougall by Mcdougall, Wendy
50.00 AUD
Category: Music
it's only Rock 'n' Roll but I like it In 1979, Wendy sold her first photo to one of the biggest bands in Australia, The Angels, and ever since has caught and framed unforgettable pictures of local music legends like INXS, Crowded House, Cold Chisel, Paul Kelly, Richard Clapton, Noiseworks, Diesel, Meli ...Show more