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Country Music: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Carlin
RRP: £8.99£6.45Country Music: A Very Short Introduction presents a compelling overview of the music and its impact on American culture. Country music has long been a marker of American identity; from our popular culture to our politics, it has provided a soundtrack to... -
Elton John at 75 Gillian G. Gaar 9780760375525
RRP: £60.00£40.15A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton at 75 features a slipcased hardcover with a gatefold timeline, gatefold artwork, frameable pull-out gig poster, and a pull-out photo print! Few rock artists continue... -
The Language of Singing Bowls: Choose, Play and Understand Your Bowl Frank Perry (Frank Perry) 9781905398386
RRP: £9.99£8.76Frank Perry, author of Himalayan Sound Revelations, presents a unique guide to the whole world of the singing bowl and its companion instruments, the tingsha and drilbu. Chapters cover : * what is a singing bowl * how are they used * their history * how... -
Der Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner
RRP: £12.00£9.43Der fliegende Hollander is the first of Wagner's operas that the author considered to be representative of his mature style. The Dutchman embodies one of the major themes that recur throughout Wagner's work: that of a central character seeking redemption... -
Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul by Eddie Floyd
RRP: £25.95£17.52Known for the classics "Knock on Wood," "634-5789," "Raise Your Hand," "Big Bird," and "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)," among others, Eddie Floyd's career as a soul legend spans over sixty years. His professional singing career began... -
Ace of Clubs: A Celebration of the 100 Club by Digby Fairweather 9781858587288
£13.29During its eighty years under London's legendary Oxford Street everyone from Louis Armstrong to rock icons the Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols and Chuck Berry have played the historic 100 Club. In Ace of Clubs, with foreword by Jools Holland, we read its... -
Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo by Eliot Rahal
RRP: £14.99£10.07Machine Gun Kelly revisit his 2019 album Hotel Diablo as he makes his debut in the world of comics!Between Heaven and Hell lies a waystation for the soul--a place where your deeds in life are the keys to your eternity in the afterlife--at the Hotel... -
Tannhauser by Richard Wagner
RRP: £10.00£8.93What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhauser, an opera which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? The subject is the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment, between worlds of... -
Aimee Mann On Track: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Jez Rowden
RRP: £14.99£10.95Any consideration of the song writing craft would be incomplete without the inclusion of American singer/songwriter Aimee Mann. From her first steps as singer and bass player with '80s synth pop band 'Til Tuesday, who scored a massive MTV hit with... -
Dear Angel of Death by Simone White 9781937027674
RRP: £12.00£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027674Author Simone WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 250g -
Amy Winehouse Kate Solomon 9781786278845
RRP: £12.99£9.00In her intense, brief life, Amy Winehouse's music spoke directly to millions. And since her death, her fans have only increased.Amy Winehouse is one of those pop stars that comes along so rarely we're not sure we knew what we had when we had her. Her... -
Carmen by Georges Bizet
RRP: £10.00£7.97"Bizet describes himself as 'pagan', and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean beauty quite unique in music. The essays included in this guide suggest some reasons for its legendary theatrical appeal. Martin Cooper describes the traditional mixture of spoken... -
Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 9780714544236
RRP: £10.00£7.97"It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond our power to describe." Thus reads one of the first London reviews of Cosi fan tutte. Its enigmatic mixture... -
Johnny Cash's American Recordings by Tony Tost
RRP: £9.99£7.67This title offers a superb investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology. When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was a country music legend who, like his fellow Highwaymen... -
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7) by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193385887
RRP: £27.25£26.00for soprano solo, SSA chorus, and full orchestra This new edition of Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 7, the Sinfonia Antartica, has been prepared by David Matthews with support from the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust. The work was drawn from the... -
Iron Maiden Legacy Of The Beast Volume 2: Night City by Llexi Leon
RRP: £17.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947784178Author Llexi LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Heavy Metal MagazinePublisher Heavy Metal Magazine -
What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean: The Moby Grape Story Cam Cobb 9781911036319
RRP: £14.95£10.18Moby Grape are a genuine cult phenomenon. Their story, a mixture of myth and truth, is a cautionary tale, a triumph, and a tragedy all at once. Though they are seen as a symbol of 1960s San Francisco, Moby Grape were never actually a part of the city s... -
The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography by Mark Evan Bonds 9780190068479
RRP: £34.99£30.49The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change,... -
The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen by Bob Gendron
RRP: £9.99£7.67Like no record before or since, "Gentlemen" is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and the shame that coincide with relationships gone seriously wrong. This story explores what happens when... -
Classical Music: A Beginner's Guide Julian Johnson (University of Sussex) 9781851686872
RRP: £9.99£6.41What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? With such a rich tradition, what relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore the field, and examines how music is related to some... -
The Inner Light: How India Influenced the Beatles by Susan Shumsky
RRP: £22.00£14.05The hidden meanings of the Beatles' most esoteric lyrics and sounds are revealed by a rare insider who spent two decades with the man who made "meditation," "mantra," and "yoga" household words: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. "I absolutely love this book... -
Die Zauberfloete (The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
RRP: £10.00£7.97With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel, a mixture of songs and dialogue, in which the spectacular effects and comedy fit naturally: they appeal today as much as they did when it... -
Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Evan Bonds
RRP: £8.99£6.45Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven... -
Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives by Steve Baltin
RRP: £20.00£17.64"Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " -Cameron Crowe, Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter... -
Peter Gabriel A Life In Vision by Alan Hewitt 9781912782765
RRP: £24.90£17.55When Peter Gabriel left rock royalty Genesis in 1975 for personal reasons, his musical future was full of uncertainty. But within 18 months he returned in style with his debut solo album and a hit single 'Solsbury Hill'. It set him on a path that has... -
Music Medals Platinum Guitar Ensemble Pieces by ABRSM 9781860965135
RRP: £10.50£8.57Music Medals Guitar Ensemble Pieces are five volumes of enjoyable and accessible repertoire. Each volume contains original pieces and imaginative arrangements for duets, trios and quartet. Excellent material for mixed-ability groups as well as being an... -
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow: Pop Music Wisdom by Marcus Kraft
RRP: £14.99£13.69When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don't take it. The great thing about... -
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure by Maria Golia
RRP: £14.95£10.92Ornette 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 zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues... -
Rush and Philosophy: Heart and Mind United by Jim Berti 9780812697162
RRP: £24.99£18.80The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the movie I... -
Blues For Dummies Lonnie Brooks 9780764550805
RRP: £18.99£13.15Get your mojo working as you take a musical trip from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago's gritty South Side and points beyond with Blues For Dummies, an insightful, toe-tappin', music lovers' guide to the blues. Popular blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks... -
Popular Music Genres: An Introduction by Stuart Borthwick
RRP: £31.00£28.69An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics and socio-political contexts. At the centre... -
Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi
RRP: £20.00£15.01In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life... -
Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me by Nick Attfield
RRP: £9.99£7.67This is an in-depth study of the visceral slacker classic from 1987, an album that influenced enormously the nascent alternative scene. Dinosaur Jr, the stereotypical slackers. Mascis, Barlow, Murph (just Murph): three early-twenty somethings still... -
Bob Dylan In America by Sean Wilentz
RRP: £10.99£7.77A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 - and its musical, political and cultural roots in early 20th-century AmericaGrowing up in Greenwich Village in the 1960s Sean... -
The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax
RRP: £25.99£17.75Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no... -
Nellie by Robert Wainwright
RRP: £17.99£11.87'In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba...Robert Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels, took the operatic world by storm and managed to escape from her... -
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne 9780063161566
RRP: £19.99£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063161566Author Chris PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g -
The AB Real Book, C Bass clef by ABRSM
RRP: £31.00£26.05An impressive range of jazz styles, from New Orleans to contemporary. All tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered. Tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and... -
Experiencing Mahler: A Listener's Companion by Arved Ashby 9781538104866
RRP: £37.00£34.67Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) took the symphony, one of the most abstract and tradition-bound genres in Western music, and opened it to the widest (and wildest) span of human experience. He opened it to themes of love, nature, the world's chasmic depth at... -
Young, Gifted & Black: The Story of Trojan Records by Michael De Koningh 9781787601178
RRP: £10.99£9.23Recently resurrected and now enjoying chart success in the 21st century, when it was formed Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976. With a blizzard of individual labels and a marketing strategy that involved selling...