Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
$33.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A comprehensive and celebratory journey through the history of popular music, from the former New York Times music critic.
Running up that Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush by Tom Doyle
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush. Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', Running Up That Hill is a ...Show more
Trip-Hop (Genre - a '33 1/3' series) by R. J. Wheaton
$33.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social tensions of the late 1980s, and as part of hip-hop's rise to global dominance. It carried the innovations ...Show more
Sellout - The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Dan Ozzi
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.' - New York Times Book Review. A raucous history of punk, ...Show more
Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock & Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
"Simon Doonan’s hilarious cultural commentary meets Lou Reed’s poetic rock gravitas. Warhol, Bowie, electroshock, conflict, surprises, sequins— this book is truly a walk on the wild side, with my very favorite humorist as our guide!"—Ariel Levy, bestselling author of The Rules Do Not Apply and Female C ...Show more
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
'As seductive as it is scholarly ... Riveting' Financial Times'Unusual and refreshing ... Brilliant' Leanne Shapton'A bold, unusual book, filled with archival research, exuberant ideas and a determination to counter misogyny' Diana Souhami, RA Magazine------------------------------Lemons gleam in a bowl ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track by Ian Penman
$23.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
In 'prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points' (Brian Dillon, frieze), Ian Penman's first book in twenty years is cause for celebration. When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music r ...Show more
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980 by Jerome Soligny
$45.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
"This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people's around him" - Hermione Farthingale "Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world of David Bowie's career and life in general... His ne ...Show more
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
$25.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine Evaristo on Sweet Honey in the Rock. Part meditation o ...Show more
What is Black Art? by Alice Correia
$26.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A landmark contribution to British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalised perspectives from 'the critical decade'. What is Black art and why don't we know more about it? Museums, galleries and publications are overflowing with art from white and predominantly male artists. This has ...Show more
Cat Power's Moon Pix 33 1/3 by Donna Kozloskie
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Spirits violently swam up around her house, looming at the windows, beckoning her to join them. Her and her acoustic guitar warded them off song after song, nearly the enti ...Show more