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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Sarah Kirby & John Gabriel (eds)
Combining approaches from Western art music, First Nations music, pop music, studies of contemporary community practice, and anthropological and ethnomusicological field work, 'Australasian Music, At Home and Abroad' presents peer-reviewed…
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Alice Farnham
With her own personal story at the heart, leading conductor Alice Farnham interviews conductors - both men and women - at different stages in their career, looking at what it…
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Lucy O'Brien
A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.
Robert Philip
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
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Greg Graffin
From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock's evolution.
Paul McCartney
Photographs and Reflections
Dr Ian Bostridge, CBE (Author)
An exceptionally thought-provoking look at music and identity from one of the world's leading singers.
Lucinda Williams
The beloved and iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the…
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Mark Blake
The definitive story of the Hipgnosis design partnership, their iconic album artworkand their rock 'n' roll life
BTS, Myeongseok Kang
Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, and written over 3 years of in‑depth coverage, in interviews by Myeongseok Kang, BTS shares personal, behind-the-scenes stories of their journey so far.
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Tony Cohen, John Olson
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, Cold Chisel, The Cruel Sea and so…
Dee Peyok
In Away From Beloved Lover, Dee Peyok travels across Cambodia, piecing together the story of the country and its golden era of music
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MIXMAG, Duncan Dick
A global celebration of dance music, taking in the cities responsible for the best DJs, records, and clubs
Ed Ayres
Life Lessons Through Music
David Toop
The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber.
Rick Rubin
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that…
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Lizzy Goodman
An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
Ngarukuruwala Women's Group
A beautiful book that brings many lifetimes of sung Tiwi knowledge to the page for the first time.
Uwe Schutte
An exploration of the astounding musical phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionized our cultural landscape
Paul Gorman
A raucous yet reflective look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who defined the music of the 20th century.
Leonard Cohen
The New York Times bestselling final collection of poetry from the world’s greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen.
Kelefa Sanneh
A comprehensive and celebratory journey through the history of popular music, from the former New York Times music critic
Rolling Stone
"A companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the music world celebrates the all-new 2020 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time,"…
David Stubbs
The indispensable and definitive guide to Krautrock, in paperback for the first time.
Brian Epstein
The iconic life story of Brian Epstein, the ‘Fifth Beatle’, in his own words - and inevitably the story of the making of the Beatles. Featuring a new introduction by…
Simon Reynolds
The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from ‘68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds.
Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa
An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa.
Dave Rimmer
The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s.
Tom Doyle
A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush.
Robby Krieger
In his first book ever, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, opens up about The Doors’ meteoric career, his own darkest…
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Vika and Linda
With charming honesty and infectious humour, Vika and Linda recount the highs and lows, twists and turns they’ve navigated on the long road to centre stage
Cosey Fanni Tutti
In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the…
Jon Savage, Johan Kugelburg, Ben Blackwell, Joan Jett (contributors)
The first book telling Iggy Pop’s story of The Stooges from his own words. Features a treasure-trove of unseen photos. Updated paperback version features a new chapter of photos plus…
Paulie Stewart
Paulie Stewart AO is an Australian rock legend. He’s also a legend of the movement advocating for the freedom of East Timor and West Papua.
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Graham Coxon
A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon.
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Questlove
Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Bob Dylan
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
Robert Dimery
MusicQuake presents a history of popular music focusing on the most rebellious and game-changing recordings and performances from the early twentieth century to today.
Kaitlyn Tiffany
A thrilling and riotous dive into the world of superfandom, One Direction, and the fangirls who shaped the social internet –
Val Wilmer
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by the renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams.
Nick Cave
Switching between the cynical and the sanguine, the defeated and the defiant, this title deals in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, pants, money, flowers and more…
David Bowie
‘The closest we’ll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography - but who’d ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?’ - Rolling Stone
Bono
Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written a memoir; honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the…
Dylan Jones (ed.)
The definitive oral history of the New Romantics.
Kate Molleson
A radical answer to Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise, Sound Within Sound fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a…
Dr. Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas
A legendary record-producer-turned-brain-scientist explains why you fall in love with music.
Paul Brannigan
From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new style of post-‘60s hard rock…
Andrew Mellor
An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them.
