Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey Through Life and Death by Paul Robertson
39.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music
In 2008, the renowned violinist Paul Robertson suffered a ruptured aorta. After dying momentarily on the operating table, he remained in a coma for many weeks. During this time, he experienced visions which afforded him a profound insight into the relationship between music and the mind. When he awoke, ...Show more
Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians by Steven Isserlis
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Category: Film & Music
Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; his 'Advice for Young Musicians', originally created to accompany his famous 'Album for the Young', remains as relevant today as when it was written. Celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis adds his own extensi ...Show more
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1975 - 1981 by Ed Piskor
46.95 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: Hip Hop Family Tree Ser.
From exciting young talent and self-proclaimed hip hop nerd Ed Piskor comes this explosively entertaining, encyclopaedic history of the formative years of the music genre that has changed global culture. Originally serialised on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, Hip Hop Family Tree has been collec ...Show more
Fellini - The Sixties by Manoah Bowman
79.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music
"Fellini: The Sixties" is an awe-inspiring, photo-filled homage to the signature work of Italy's most celebrated filmmaker, Federico Fellini.Style, beauty, passion, vision. All of these words describe the films of one of the most important filmmakers the world has ever known--Federico Fellini. Fifty yea ...Show more
Yes Is The Answer - And Other Prog Rock Tales by Marc Weingarten
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Category: Film & Music
Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it. Hipsters scoff at it. A topographic journey into a 21st-century schizoid land of prog-lit, Yes Is the Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters and the first literary anthology devoted to the subgenre. Featuring acclaimed novelists Ric ...Show more
Broken Hallelujah - Rock 'n' Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen by Leil Leibovitz
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Category: Film & Music
Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts, blockbuster movie sound tracks, and television singing competitions? And why is it that while most ...Show more
The Beach Boys' Smile by Luis A. Sanchez
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Category: Film & Music | Series: 33 1/3
Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop. In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration ...Show more
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius by Bill Milkowski
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Category: Film & Music
A fitting tribute to the troubled genius who revolutionized electric bass playing and bridged the gaps between jazz, RB, rock, and funk. From his early days in RB club bands through his international stardom with fusion group Weather Report and on to his solo career and tragic death at age 35, this book ...Show more
Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall by Graham Marsh
115.00 AUD
Category: Film & Music
Jim Marshall is known as the defining father of music photography and his intimate photographs of the greats of Rock Roll, Country, Folk, Blues and Jazz are legendary. Renowned for his extraordinary access and ability to capture the perfect moment, his influence is second to none. In 2014, Marshall beca ...Show more
The Ordinary Man of Cinema by Jean Louis Schefer
37.95 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describes the schizophrenic subjectivity the ci ...Show more
The Great Movies IV by Roger Ebert
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Category: Film & Music
No film critic has ever been as influential or as beloved as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later Richard Roeper about the movies they loved and loat ...Show more
Beatles: A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive The by Mark Lewisohn
175.00 AUD
Category: Film & Music
Including never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, a behind-the-scenes look into The Beatles' acclaimed first film In March of 1964, director Richard Lester began shooting A Hard Day's Night, a feature film starring The Beatles. With fast, sharp humour and a brilliant soundtrack, the movie depicts th ...Show more