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  • Kylie Minogue's Kylie

    by Dr. Adrian Renzo, Dr. Liz Giuffre ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Oceania
    Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children's television star 'crossed over' to music with hit writer/producers SAW - and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the 'real' music industry get its back up. This book interrogates the way that commercial pop albums are remembered in both the popular ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Split Personality: The Story of Pink

    by Paul Lester ...
    Paul Lester traces the extraordinary career of Alicia Beth Moore from Pennsylvania through her stint in the girl group Choice to her present incarnation as global superstar P!NK . Split Personality reveals the two sides of this complex artist: the feisty fun-filled performer who at thirty continues to conquer in a teen-dominated industry and the conflicted woman whose dark urges have fuelled her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • How to Write About Music

    Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers

    by Marc Woodworth, Ally-Jane Grossan ...
    If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved art form. Selections from the critically-acclaimed 33 1/3 series appear alongside new interviews and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The First Time I Heard Joy Division / New Order

    by Scott Heim ...
    Series series The First Time I Heard
    The First Time I Heard Joy Division / New Order is Part I in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this first volume, forty-five different musicians and writers remember their initial experiences hearing the seminal post-punk UK band Joy Division and/or its offshoot, New Order.Contributors to the Joy Division / ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Long and Winding Way to the Top

    Fifty (or so) songs that made Australia

    by Andrew P Street ...
    Australia likes to celebrate its musical heritage, but there are so many stories that haven't been told.'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy BarnesWhich band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash owes ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Paddle Against the Flow

    Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Cultural Rebels

    by Huck Magazine ...
    Nas on language, Cat Power on looking inward, Spike Jonze on loving what you do, and Kim Gordon on feeling the flow. These are just a few of the indie stars and surprising insights collected in this gorgeous book by Huck magazine. Since launching in 2006, Huck has been at the vanguard of London's thriving independent publishing scene and has grown into an internationally distributed bi-monthly, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Long-Player Goodbye

    by Travis Elborough ...
    For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod, are personal treasure, revealing our loves, errors of jugdement and lapses in taste. Self-confessed music obsessive, Travis Elborough, explores the way in which particular albums are deeply embedded in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Under My Thumb

    Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them

    by Rhian Jones, Eli Davies, Tamar Shlaim ...
    Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this hasn’t stopped generations of women ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Australia Rocks

    Remembering the music of the 1950s to 1990s

    by Lucy Desoto ...
    Australian rock music has a rich history of performers and bands that have created not just the soundtrack for Australian lives but have also shaped the international music scene. In the early days of the 1950s and ‘60s, Australian rock saw performers like Johnny O’Keefe and The Easybeats. The 1970s saw Cold Chisel and AC/DC, among others, performing to packed halls locally. AC/DC turned this into ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Dig

    Australian Rock and Pop Music, 1960-85

    by David Nichols ...
    David Nichols tells the story of Australian rock and pop music from 1960 to 1985 formative years in which the nation cast off its colonial cultural shackles and took on the world.Generously illustrated and scrupulously researched, Dig combines scholarly accuracy with populist flair. Nichols is an unfailingly witty and engaging guide, surveying the fertile and varied landscape of Australian ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Are We Not New Wave?

    Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

    by Theodore Cateforis ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    “Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out PopNew wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League leapt into the Top 40 with a novel ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Bring the Noise

    20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

    by Simon Reynolds ...
    Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists-Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead-with Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD