Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. 'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' NICK CAVE On T ...Show more
John Illsley - My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
The first - and only - inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history, as told by bassist and founder member John Illsley, with a foreword by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and sold hundreds of millions of records. Throughout the eighties they were one of t ...Show more
The Beatles on Vinyl - The Must Have Records for Your Collection by Peter Chrisp
$41.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The story of every album and single that the Beatles ever made and recorded on vinyl. Take a step back in time, and celebrate the greatest band that ever recorded on vinyl - their brilliant records, the sleeve art, and limited edition extras of the records themselves. The world would never be the same ...Show more
The Woman I am: A memoir by Helen Reddy
$27.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
With her song I Am Woman, Helen Reddy provided the feminist anthem of the 1970s. Here Helen reveals she is much more than the entertainer, who first graced the stage at the age of four.
Recording Classical Music by Robert Toft
$73.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Recording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces, focusing on stereo microphone techniques that will help musicians understand how to translate "live" environments into recorded sound. The book covers theory and the technic ...Show more
Conversations With Glenn Gould by Jonathan Cott
$47.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The author spoke with pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82), one of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, in 1974 for Rolling Stone and published the transcripts in two long articles; after Gould's death, the author gathered these interviews in this book, adding an introduct ...Show more
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues: 30 Years by Adrian Jackson
$66.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
How on earth could a town like Wangaratta in rural Victoria host a jazz festival? Thirty years on, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is firmly established as Australia's leading jazz festival, bringing together musicians and punters from all over the globe. It has won tourism awards and is ranked a ...Show more
Damage: A Collection of Plays: WITH Jonah AND The Floating World AND The Lost Weekend AND Top End by John Romeril
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
This collection includes three previously unpublished works: Jonah, a Brechtian musical reinvention of Louis Stone's novel of the same name; Top End, a political drama set in Darwin during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and Lost Weekend which takes a class-based look at 'Australianess'. Also inc ...Show more
My Giddy Aunt and her sister comedians by Sharon Connolly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A vivid and original account of the age of vaudeville in Australia and the eccentric women who gave it life. Whip-smart and fabulously funny, the women of vaudeville entertained Australia and challenged ideas of how women should behave. Opening a forgotten case of photographs, Sharon Connolly begins a ...Show more
KING: Life, Death and Hip Hop by Hau Latukefu, Christopher Riley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Rap pioneer, ARIA-winner, radio presenter, taste-maker, producer, label-owner, mentor - Hau Latukefu recounts his journey from Queanbeyan, aka 'Struggle Town', to the top of Australian hip hop in this inspiring memoir about the meaning of family, the art of the grind and what it takes to spark a music r ...Show more
Regurgitator's Unit 33 1/3 by Lauren Lachlan; Istvandity Goold
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
Regurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, including Album of the Year. The album's success is indicative ...Show more