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The Definitive Guitar Handbook (2017 Updated) by Rusty Cutchin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Music
This best-selling one-stop resource is packed with practical advice on how to tackle the basics, such as simple chords and finger-picking, right through to more complex power chords, slurs, bends and slides. It also includes tips on stagecraft and performing live, and step-by-step guitar maintenance. Th ...Show more
Australia Rocks: Remembering the Music of the 1950s to 1990 by Lucy Desoto
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
Australian rock music has a rich history of performers and bands that have created not just the soundtrack for Australian lives but have also shaped the international music scene. In the early days of the 1950s and '60s, Australian rock saw performers like Johnny O'Keefe and The Easybeats. The 1970s saw ...Show more
Kiwi Ukulele: The New Zealand Ukulele Companion by Mike Dickison
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
This book tells a new ukulele player everything he or she needs to get started, and more: selecting and tuning an instrument, how to hold a ukulele, fingerings for all the chords you'll ever need, fancy strums, how to arrange your favorite songs for the ukulele, and tips for playing it in groups and in ...Show more
The Angels by Bob Yates
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Angels roared out of the 1970s with multi-platinum albums, hits and record-breaking tours. The band was formed by the trio of Rick and John Brewster and Doc Neeson. Songs from their classic albums are as pertinent today as they were when they were released, thanks to John and Rick, the genius songwr ...Show more
Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie by Robert Shapiro
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Les Six are Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre. They were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music. A musical experiment originally conceived by Erik Satie a ...Show more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
$40.99 NZD
Category: Music
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographys & Memoirs
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoir ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music
In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever gen ...Show more
Absolutely on Music - Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami; Seiji Ozawa; Jay Rubin (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. 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 fulfi ...Show more
Why We Love Music : From Mozart to Metallica - the Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds by John Powell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Did you know that ...carrying a musical instrument makes you more attractive? music can cure insomnia? music can change the taste of wine? the Mozart effect has nothing to do with Mozart? Barry Manilow songs can be used for crowd control? Why does music affect you so profoundly? It impacts the way you t ...Show more
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine A Guardian best music book of 2016 The music of James Brown was almost a gen ...Show more
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant, dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists, scheming dealers, and freaks dazed and confused by t ...Show more
