Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs by Ivan March
49.95 NZD
Category: Music
The latest "Penguin Guide Yearbook" is the essential companion volume to the acclaimed "Penguin Guide to Compact Discs". Not only does it review the many hundreds of CDs that have appeared once the publication of the main guide in 2005, but it also takes a close look at some of the more unusual areas of ...Show more
Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge by Clinton Heylin
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Describes how the word 'punk' was coined by revered rock journalist Lester Bangs, and charts the rise and fall of the movement, from the explosion of the Sex Pistols to the death of Kurt Cobain. The author explores the groups who were the scenemakers, along with the underground networks established to a ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings by Richard Cook
69.95 NZD
Category: Music
14,000 CDs reviewed2,000 New discs in this editionMore than 500 new artist listingsThe Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is now firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz. For this eighth edition Richard Cook and Brian Morton have once again reassessed and updated each entry. Whethe ...Show more
Number One in Heaven by Jeremy Simmonds
59.95 NZD
Category: Music
"Number One In Heaven" is a Bible of pop's 'dead' - the ultimate record of all those who arrived, rocked and pegged-out over the last forty-odd years of fast cars, private jets, hard drugs, hot guns, reckless living and killer riffs. Music writer Jeremy Simmonds draws on a lifetime's obsession and his v ...Show more
Why Birds Sing : One Man's Quest to Solve an Everyday Mystery by David Rothenberg
27.00 NZD
Category: Music
The richness and variety of birdsong is both a scientific mystery and a source of wonder. David Rothenberg has a unique approach to this fascinating subject, combining the latest scientific research with a deep understanding of musical beauty and form. Can the standard explanations of territoriality o ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD by Richard Cook
29.95 NZD
69.95 (57% 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.
Kurt Cobain: Journals by Kurt Cobain
47.00 NZD
Category: Music
Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his music. More that twenty of these notebooks survived his many moves and travels, and have been locked in a ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Classical Music by Paul Griffiths
75.00 NZD
Category: Music
This superbly authoritative new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of classical music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), perf ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Year Book 2002/03 by Ivan March
39.95 NZD
44.95 (11% off)
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
This yearbook supplements and updates the
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs Yearbook by Edward Greenfield
49.95 NZD
Category: Music
The latest Penguin CD Yearbook is the essential companion volume to The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs. Not only does it review the many hundreds of CDs that have appeared since the publication of the last edition of the Guide in 2001, but it also takes a close look at some of the more unusual areas of ...Show more
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD by Richard Cook
69.95 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
This companion provides a mind of information on recorded jazz. It reasseses information published in previous editions and offers criticism, comment and biographical details. The book aims to be browsable - accessible to aficionados and novices alike.
The New Penguin Opera Guide by Amanda Holden
55.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
This volume includes a range of material and information which embraces all forms of opera from its beginnings through to the 21st century, covering composers, individual operas and operatic history. Over 100 contributors have written on more than 800 composers and examined 1500 operas in detail.