Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
$24.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . ...Show more
Madonna: A Rebel Life - THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ANY MADONNA FAN by Mary Gabriel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
'Madonna built the house in which nearly all female artists now live . . . A Rebel Life brings home not just her obvious willpower and strength, but her fearlessness and sheer intelligence' DAILY TELEGRAPH In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
George Michael - A Life by James Gavin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
In George Michael: A Life, "Gavin's engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man" (New York Times Book Review). George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
Rock N Roll Gallery: A Journey From Sheffield to Sydney 1983-2023 by Tony Mott
$99.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
If a picture tells a thousand words, Tony Mott ‘s photos tell millions of stories. His photos of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards mid performance, Peter Garrett kneeling on stage eye to eye with the front row, Tex Perkins holding court in front of an army of fans at Sydney’ s Big Day Out in 1994, tell the ...Show more
Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool by JAMES CLARKE
$90.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Once, when asked how he'd like to be remembered, Paul Newman replied: "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried. Tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being." As an actor who be ...Show more
Women, Rock! Portraits in Popular Music by PHILIP AUSLANDER
$65.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Women Rock! honors the unique contributions of 50 female artists with noteworthy contributions to music. Women played crucial roles in the history of rock music. Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel-singing electric guitarist, rock might never have been born. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick were for ...Show more
ABBA at 50 by CARL MAGNUS PALM
$75.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from childhood through the Voyage album. Emerging victorious from Eurovision in 1974 with winning tune "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame and captured hearts across the world with their melodic and ever-so catchy pop songs. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fält ...Show more
Karma: The definitive autobiography by Boy George
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George. Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club, since its inception in 1981.Boy George has led a colo ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more