Music

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Affective Intensities in Extreme Music Scenes: Cases from Australia and...

Rosemary Overell

Music; Music: styles & genres; Popular culture

Hardback

An ethnographic study of gender, place and belonging, Affective Intensities introduces readers to the embodied sensations,... [more]

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Hit Brands: How Music Builds Value for the World's Smartest Brands

Daniel Jackson, Richard Jankovich, Eric Sheinkop

Music; Business & Economics; Sales & marketing

Hardback

Companies and agencies spend vast amounts of money to advertise and brand products and music has been an important part of... [more]

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Sing your way to French: Sing your way to French - Book & CD-audio (1)

Assimil Nelis

Music; Languages & ESL

Other merchandise

Helps introduce your child to the French language through songs in an entertaining way. This title has been designed for use... [more]

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Bela Bartok

David Cooper

Music; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Paperback

The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century composer [more]

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Mozart's Starling

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Mathematics & Sciences; Wildlife: birds & birdwatching; Birds, including cage birds, as pets

Paperback

A charming story of Mozart and his pet starling, along with a natural history of the bird. [more]

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Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Advocate - Performing Arts

Paperback

Synopsis coming soon....... [more]

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A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

Tionne Watkins, Tionne Watkins

Music; Memoirs

Paperback

For the first time, five-time Grammy Award winner, Tionne T-Boz Watkins, talks about her rise to fame, lifelong battle with... [more]

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Leonard Bernstein

Paul R. Laird

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Drawing on over thirty years of study, leading scholar Paul R. Laird describes Bernstein's work as a conductor, composer,... [more]

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My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords

Julia Crowe

Music; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Easy listening, MOR music

Paperback

Interviews with the world's great guitarists, from Jimmy Page and Les Paul to Tom Morello and Richard Thompson, who reveal... [more]

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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

Billy Bragg

Music; Rock & Pop music; Advocate - Performing Arts

Paperback

A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the Year LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE Emerging from the jazz clubs... [more]

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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977...

Val Wilmer

Music; Jazz; Blues

Paperback

An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams... [more]

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The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer...

Richard Stokes

Musical scores, lyrics & libretti; Poetry anthologies

Paperback

Draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience... [more]

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Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

David Hepworth

Music; Rock & Pop music; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

As heard on BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keveny, BBC Radio 5 Live and Talk Radio with Eamonn HolmesThe age of the rock star, like... [more]

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Culture and the Course of Human Evolution

Gary Tomlinson

Music; History; Anthropology; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Evolution

Paperback

An argument for the role of culture in human evolution, arguing that the leaps we made can only really be understood if we... [more]

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Girls at the Piano

Virginia Lloyd

Keyboard instruments; Biography; Memoirs

Paperback

A brilliant memoir about how learning the piano shaped the lives of two women worlds and generations apart that will resonate... [more]

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RAW: My Journey into the Wu-Tang

Lamont U-God Hawkins

Music; Rap & Hip-Hop; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Part social history, part confessional memoir, U-God's intimate portrait of his life - and those of his Wu-Tang brothers -... [more]

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Working Class Boy: A Memoir of Running Away

Jimmy Barnes

Rock & Pop music; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Long before Cold Chisel, long before 'Barnesy', there was the true story of James Dixon Swan A household name, an Australian... [more]

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When The World Stopped To Listen

Stuart Isacoff

Music; Music reviews & criticism

Paperback

April of 1958--the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the outcome of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition seemed... [more]

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Unmasked

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Musicals; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs,... [more]

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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

Eli Maor

Music; History of mathematics; History of science

Hardback

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient... [more]

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Tragedy: The Sad Ballad of the Gibb Brothers

Jeff Apter

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

The rise and fall of the... [more]

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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

Robert Gordon

Music; Rock & Pop music

Hardback

Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. - Keith... [more]

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book

Drawing & drawings; Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Hardback

A beautifully produced collection of illustrations by Reinhard Kleist, capturing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' thirty-year career... [more]

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The Beatles on the Roof

Tony Barrell

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Paperback

Beatles on the Roof studies the rooftop concert in penetrating detail, uncovering new truths and debunking old myths about... [more]

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Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will

Simon Callow

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: general

Paperback

The perfect introduction to the Master. [more]