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Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music by Daniel Harrison 9780190244460
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $42.57This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an... -
The Media in Scotland by Neil Blain 9780748627998
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $111.57This book brings together academics, writers and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. The book includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting... -
Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road by Gordon E. Slethaug 9781501352621
Booksplease Price: $47.50Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But... -
Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies by Michael Silk 9780367871246
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research... -
Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture by Mark Voger 9781605490809
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $36.58It's all too beautiful! From Woodstock to "The Banana Splits," from "Sgt. Pepper" to "H.R. Pufnstuf," from Altamont to "The Partridge Family," GROOVY is a far-out trip to the era of lava lamps and... -
The Beach Boys: Pet Tracks by Michael Francis Taylor 9781912587988
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.32"The Beatles will be remembered, and rightly so, as the sociological phenomenon of the Sixties...but if you're talking about music, it has to be Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. That's who they'll... -
Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.Roy Complain... -
Greybeard by Brian Aldiss 9780575071131
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $5.93Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of... -
Figured Dark by Greg Rappleye 9781557288523
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Greg Rappleye's Figured Dark is a collection of contemporary lyric and narrative poems, set in an American landscape, which takes as its implicit theme the journey of the soul from darkness into... -
The Beach Boys: All The Songs by Rick Swan
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.10The Beach Boys: All The Songs is a detailed look at the recorded output of this most unique and influential popular music group. From the 1962 debut Surfin' Safari through to 2012's That's Why God... -
Cryptozoic! by Brian Aldiss
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.68In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called 'mind-travelling'. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy 'trip' to the... -
Helliconia: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.49Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the... -
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Kirstin Anderson 9781914603464
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Fifty years ago, a small unit in HM Prison Barlinnie, Glasgow, became a radical experiment whose approach polarised opinion. It encouraged shared decision-making between prisoners and staff, allowed... -
The Hydro Boys: Pioneers of Renewable Energy by Emma Wood
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60This work is an account of the pioneering days of hydro-electricity in Scotland. It shows how each hydro project brought its own set of technical challenges, underlining the remarkable engineering... -
Dig If You Will The Picture: Funk, Sex and God in the Music of Prince by Ben Greenman
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.86Dig If U Will The Picture is a portrait of The Artist who will be remembered by many as the most seductive and enigmatic pop star of his generation. A year after Prince's death at the age of 57,... -
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year Sly Stone 9781399601580
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A VARIETY MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023One of the few indisputable... -
More Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo 9780306817991
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.85Twenty-five years after publishing his original ground-breaking collection of insight and advice from the greatest songwriters to ever grace the airwaves, Paul Zollo releases the much-anticipated... -
Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss 9781399635400
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'An extraordinary book' The Listener'An extremely urgent criticism of the present' Daily TelegraphThe earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary... -
Jeff Beck: Hot Wired Guitar by Martin Power 9781783055920
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.71This new, revised edition of Hot Wired Guitar brings Beck's story bang up to date, from his adventures at The White House in December 2012 with Mick Jagger and US President Barack Obama, to touring... -
Heroes And Villains: The True Story Of The Beach Boys by Steven Gaines
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.16The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines... -
Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files by Kinky Friedman 9781476754772
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.44Kinky Friedman is not only a man of the people, he's a man of the animal kingdom. Kinky is a man who wears many hats -- not just a Stetson. Aside from being a politico, folksinger, and mystery... -
Leading with Character: Stories of valor and Virtue and the Principles They Teach by John J. Sosik 9781681230146
Booksplease Price: $117.22What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? In this updated and expanded second edition,... -
One Cat, Two Cats: A lift-the-flap, pop-up book with 20 cats to count! Rob Hodgson 9781805136125
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40A joyful, laugh-out-loud counting picture book with plenty of cat-itude!One cat, two cats, three cats, four. Five cats, six cats . . . how many more?In this interactive counting book with rhyming... -
Leading with Character: Stories of valor and Virtue and the Principles They Teach by John J. Sosik 9781681230139
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.14What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? In this updated and expanded second edition,... -
Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20Joni Mitchell has only visited the U.S. Top 40 singles chart four times in her long recording career - and the Top 20 just once. So much for "stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song",... -
Becoming the Beach Boys, 1961-1963 by James B. Murphy 9780786473656
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.24They were almost The Pendletones--after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach--then The Surfers, before being named The Beach Boys. But what separated them from every... -
Maritime Private Security: Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century Patrick Cullen 9780415724241
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.62This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector. The private security industry continues to evolve after its renaissance over... -
The Notorious Byrd Brothers by Ric Mench
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.73By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to begin work on this album, they were basically falling apart at the seams. 'Ladyfriend', a song written... -
After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture by Andrew Bennett 9780333977125
Booksplease Price: $58.59The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of... -
Derek Taylor: For Your Radioactive Children...: Days in the Life of The Beatles' Spin Doctor by Andrew Darlington 9781789520385
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66There are a million stories that take place within the arc of Derek Taylor's life. He lived a charmed life, which started on Saturday, 7 May 1932, in the Liverpool 17 suburb of Toxteth Park... -
Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector 9781529091571
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against... -
British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence by Simon Philo 9780810886261
Booksplease Price: $66.71Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for... -
The Family Tree Will Always Grow Michael Lennon 9780875169651
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01A New Children's Book from the publisher who brought you The Invisible String... In times of grief and loss, the healing power of music has been found to transcend all ages, cultures, and... -
Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes 9780571378395
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03'There is something quite moving about seeing the lyrics of these fifty-six songs collected and assembled this way. You can see the evolution of the minds and hearts at work behind the lyrics'... -
Popular Music and American Literary Culture: Reading the Beat Kirk Curnutt 9781119833222
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $32.53Explores how American Literature has represented the sound and spirit of popular music From the birth of rhythm and blues to the rise of hip-hop, American writers have long grappled with how to... -
British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence by Simon Philo 9780810895041
Booksplease Price: $43.02Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for... -
Popular Music, Power and Play: Reframing Creative Practice by Dr. Marshall Heiser 9781501385421
Booksplease Price: $41.10Once the domain of a privileged few, the art of record production is today within the reach of all. The rise of the ubiquitous DIY project studio and internet streaming have made it so. And while the... -
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk by Rob Trucks
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.73"Tusk", the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs, was the Fleetwood Mac's critically acclaimed, commercially disappointing 1979 double album. This book is... -
Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll!: The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business by Kenny Aronoff 9781495007934
Booksplease Price: $39.40Foreword by Neil Peart.THTHTalent energy dedication discipline passion innovation education drive mind body spirit vision honor truth and EdrumsE make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by... -
Hip-Hop Is History: The New York Times bestseller Questlove 9781399621632
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.87This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.About the AuthorQuestlove is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician,...