Frank Zappa by Barry Miles
35.00 NZD
Category: Music
Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately. His biography follows Zappa from his sickly Italian-American childhood in the 1940s - when his father used DDT to clean the kitchen - to his death from cancer in 1993. As a child Zappa yearned to be a classical composer, but he soon came to realize that this am ...Show more
The Rough Guide to the "Rolling Stones" by Sean Egan
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
Still going strong after four decades, The Rolling Stones are the ultimate rock band. "The Rough Guide to The Rolling Stones" explores every aspect of the music, and charts how Mick, Keith and the boys invented rock stardom. Features include: The Story: From the blues clubs of 60s Chelsea to the world t ...Show more
The Rough Guide to the "Beatles" by Chris Ingham
29.95 NZD
Category: Music
The Beatles are the ultimate band the most popular, the most respected, the most influential. This new edition of "The Rough Guide to the Beatles" covers every aspect of the Fab Four, delving deep into the music, lyrics, movies and solo careers. Features include: The Story: from Liverpool clubs to Beatl ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan (2nd edition 2006) by Nigel Williamson
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
In his seventh decade and still going strong, Bob Dylan is the ultimate singer-songwriter - hugely revered, baffingly idiosyncratic, an enigma and a music legend responsible for a staggering number of classic songs. Now in it's second edition, "the Rough Guide" clarifies the mysteries surrounding the ma ...Show more
The Rough Guide to World Music - Africa and the Middle East Volume 1 by Simon Broughton et al.
55.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
"The Rough Guide to World Music, Vol.1, 3rd edition: Africa, Europe and the Middle East" has full coverage of everything from Congolese soukous to Greek rembetika, and biographies of artists from Thomas Mapfumo to Cheb Khaled to the Afro Celt Sound System. The features include: more than 80 articles fro ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd by Toby Manning
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
"The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd" is the ultimate companion to the band that changed the sound and scale of pop music forever. Features include: The Story: from the Syd Barrett era, the Dark Side Of The Moon phenomenon to their transformation into one of the world's biggest bands, The Music: 50 essential ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Opera by Matthew Boyden
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
The "Rough Guide to Opera" is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, animating the main events of their careers and revealing their soc ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Blues by Nigel Williamson
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
"The Rough Guide to Blues" gives you the complete lowdown on all the grittiest singers, bottleneck guitarists, belt-it-out divas and wailing harmonica players that made the most influential music of the last century. From music legend B.B. King to folk hero Robert Johnson, the guide includes detailed pr ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Soul and R'n'B by Peter Shapiro
45.00 NZD
50.00 (10% off)
Category: Music
"The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B" is the definitive guide to the genre's greatest singers, musicians, songwriters and record labels, encapsulating the entire history of soul music from gospel and doo-wop, through funk and disco, to hip-hop and R&B. The guide includes detailed profiles of more th ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Jazz by Ian Carr; Digby Fairweather; Brian Priestley
45.00 NZD
50.00 (10% off)
Category: Music | Series: Rough Guide Music Guides | Reading Level: good
The third edition of the Rough Guide to Jazz has over 2100 critical biographies, ranging from greats like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to rising stars like Stacey Kent and Jamie Cullum. As well as outlining every artist's career, each entry concludes with recommendations of the best of their recordin ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Classical Music by Rough Guides
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered f ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan by Nigel Williamson
25.00 NZD
Category: Music
Bob Dylan Born Duluth, Minnesota, May 24, 1941. 'Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.' Robert Zimmerman first entered the public consciousness as a Greenwich Village folk singer back in 1961, two years after his reincarnation as Bob Dylan. The fragile young songwriter had started out as ...Show more