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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde by Carolyn Abbate 9780521437387
RRP: £19.99£17.13Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the 'sweet and terrible infinity' of its basic nexus of longing and death has fascinated audiences since its first performance in 1865. At... -
Begin The Begin: R.E.M.'s Early Years by Robert Dean Lurie
RRP: £17.99£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241680Author Robert Dean LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
Travelling Man: On The Road With The Searchers by Frank Allen
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750467Author Frank AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus PublishingDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 15mm -
Boy, Interrupted: Memoir of a Former Smith by Dale Hibbert 9781904590309
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904590309Author Dale HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PomonaPublisher Pomona -
Gentle Giant: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Gary Steel
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ultimate cult progressive band - as revered as Yes or Genesis by those that have 'found' them. Poorly served by literature, very little long-form material has been written about the band. Though the band have never reformed, several members have... -
Relax Baby Be Cool: The Artistry And Audacity Of Serge Gainsbourg by Jeremy Allen
RRP: £14.95£9.78Why has Serge Gainsbourg crossed over to the English-speaking world when so many of his contemporaries have remained largely confined to the Francosphere? What is it about this unshaven provocateur that so appeals to us? And who was the real Serge... -
Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World by Todd Boyd 9781838666224
RRP: £59.95£46.37A visual and cultural history of hip hop, charting its meteoric rise from underground trailblazer to global tastemaker To tell the story of contemporary American culture is to tell the story of hip hop. From its humble, underground origins, hip hop... -
Tom Petty's Southern Accents by Michael Washburn
RRP: £9.99£7.67By 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like "The Waiting" and "Refugee." Petty's response to his restlessness was... -
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age by Professor Stephen Walsh 9780571356959
RRP: £25.00£16.59Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. But as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - ... -
French Connections: From Discotheque to Daft Punk - The Birth of French Touch by Martin James 9781913231163
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231163Author Martin JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press -
Before I Get Old by Dave Marsh
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655637Author Dave MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of The Byrds' Gene Clark by John Einerson 9780879307936
RRP: £18.99£14.32Gene Clark soared to fame as a founding member and frontman of The Byrds one of the most important and influential groups of the '60s. His songwriting with The Byrds and subsequent work as a solo artist and with Dillard & Clark mark him as one of rock's... -
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey Angela Y. Davis 9780679771265
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771265Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420g -
Thomas Adès in Five Essays by Drew Massey
RRP: £35.49£26.83The British composer, conductor, and pianist Thomas Ades has achieved a level of recognition and celebrity within the world of classical music today that is almost unmatched. Once seen as the heir to Benjamin Britten, both in his importance to British... -
Mendelssohn: A Life in Music by R. Larry Todd 9780195179880
RRP: £31.49£27.30An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today... -
Gathering Of The Tribe: Ritual: A Companion to Occult Music On Vinyl Vol 3 by Mark Goodall 9781915316219
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316219Author Mark GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Wayfaring Stranger: A Musical Journey in the American South Emma John 9781474606851
RRP: £9.99£6.80Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known?Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world... -
Ozzy and Black Sabbath: What Evil Lurks Joel Mciver 9780785843696
RRP: £18.99£13.75Revel in the outrageous life of Ozzy Osbourne and the band that created the modern metal scene through inside stories, photos, and memorabilia. Few celebrities are known only by their first name. But say the name Ozzy, and there's only one who comes to... -
Punk Women David A. Ensminger 9781621065517
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621065517Author David A. EnsmingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Dub by Michael Veal 9780819565723
£27.52When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a... -
Fiddle For Dummies: Book + Online Video and Audio Instruction Michael John Sanchez 9781118930229
RRP: £21.99£14.56Learn to play the fiddle? Easy. Tackling a new instrument can be intimidating, but with this easy-to-use guide, you'll have no trouble at all! From selecting, tuning, and caring for your fiddle to mastering various music styles, Fiddle For Dummies walks... -
Still Too Sexy: Surviving Right Said Fred by Fred Fairbrass
RRP: £16.99£12.28Richard and Fred Fairbrass, better known as Right Said Fred, scored a global Number 1 hit in 1991 with their debut single 'I'm Too Sexy', selling 30 million albums, being showered with industry awards, and earning plaudits from admirers such as Madonna... -
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure by Maria Golia 9781789142235
RRP: £25.00£18.02Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African American composer and musician was the zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas... -
Queen: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Andrew Wild 9781789520033
RRP: £14.99£12.58* The first book to analyse every Queen song - giving equal weight to album tracks alongside the hits . * Includes analysis of about 20 classic songs using the original 24 track master tapes. * Queen remain ever popular and active, and continue to tour... -
Sacred Choruses by John Rutter 9780193518827
RRP: £22.50£17.43This volume comprises twenty-eight of the finest oratorio choruses, complete short choral works, and movements from masses or requiems from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing repertoire from Britain and mainland Europe, the volume... -
Microsound by Curtis Roads
RRP: £48.00£33.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681544Author Curtis RoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 19mm -
The Cambridge Companion to Ballet by Marion Kant
RRP: £25.99£22.39Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides... -
Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath
RRP: £16.99£12.28The publication of Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath in September 2004 caused shockwaves of controversy and delight. Not only was its publication trumpeted in tabloids, on TV and the radio, but it was also critically lauded by the broadsheets... -
The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Laird, Paul 9781399017473
RRP: £20.00£14.29Remember the ninteties? Of course you do. Cool Britannia, New Labour, Blur vs Oasis, Geri Halliwell's Union Flag dress, TFI Friday, wasssssuuuuuuppppppp , Opal Fruits turning into Starburst without anyone asking your permission crazy times. This book... -
From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga by S H Fernando
RRP: £25.00£19.21This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Widely regarded as one of the most influential groups in modern music--hip hop or otherwise--WTC has released seven albums [including four gold and platinum studio albums, as well as... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama by Simon Banks 9781803131931
RRP: £30.00£21.35Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260... -
The Psychic Soviet by Ian F Svenonius 9781617757662
RRP: £15.95£10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617757662Author Ian F SvenoniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Wonderful - such a terrific read. Brilliantly captures the passion, commitment, searing self-knowledge and dizzy happiness that comes with loving music. An enchanting book' STEPHEN FRY***Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade... -
Green Day On Track: Every Album, Every Song by William E. Spevack
RRP: £15.99£11.61Green Day are one of rock history's greatest and most successful bands. Singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been together creating rock music with a punk heart for over three decades. The trio has reigned... -
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker 9781775541479
RRP: £14.99£9.70A startling and important memoir about family and forgiveness, love and redemption For the first time, Stan Walker speaks with startling honesty about abuse and addiction, hardship and excess, cancer and discrimination, and growing up in a family where... -
The Disco Files 1973-78 by Vince Aletti
RRP: £30.00£20.88A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco culture In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for... -
The Lark Ascending: Romance for violin and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams
RRP: £37.25£35.15Vaughan Williams's hauntingly beautiful The Lark Ascending is one of his most enduringly popular works. A serene romance, the work takes its title from a poem by George Meredith. The violin's magical evocation of the lark's 'chirrup, whistle, slur and... -
Status Quo Song by Song by Graeme Stroud 9781781556436
RRP: £16.99£12.28After their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962, and following a number of band name and personnel changes, Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single `Pictures of Matchstick Men'. However, it... -
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten
RRP: £9.99£7.67Christopher Weingarten's take on "Nation Of Millions" is a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record - the engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing. How they re-sampled... -
"We Didn't Start the Fire": Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies by Ryan Raul Banagale 9781793601834
RRP: £35.00£32.49Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This...