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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink (Paperback): Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink (Paperback)
Elvis Costello 1
R471 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars.

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four. Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world's greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company.

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink describes how Costello's career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom. This memoir, written with the same inimitable touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his personal archive, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best known songs and the hits of tomorrow. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy.

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.

The Lyrics - 1956 To The Present (Hardcover): Paul McCartney The Lyrics - 1956 To The Present (Hardcover)
Paul McCartney; Edited by Paul Muldoon
R1,985 R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Save R380 (19%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter.

In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul McCartney recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career - from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs' lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.

Presented with this is a treasure trove of material from McCartney's personal archive - drafts, letters, photographs - never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. We learn intimately about the man, the creative process, the working out of melodies, the moments of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul McCartney sings off every page.

There has never been a book about a great musician like it.

Renegades - Born In The USA (Hardcover): Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen Renegades - Born In The USA (Hardcover)
Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen 1
R963 Discovery Miles 9 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material.

Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to their country's polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-colour photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders - one Black and one white - looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself.

It includes:

  • Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen
  • Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions
  • Obama's never-before-seen annotated speeches, including his "Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches
  • Springsteen's handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long career
  • Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors' personal archives
  • Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context for their conversation.

Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favourite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way, they reveal their passion for - and the occasional toll of - telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how their fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity.

Poker Face - The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga (Paperback): Maureen Callahan Poker Face - The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga (Paperback)
Maureen Callahan 1
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lady Gaga is a once-in-a-decade artist, and the rare instant celebrity whose appearance can become a cultural event. No other music star of the last decade combines the talents Lady Gaga possesses: she’s a genuine singer, composer, songwriter, designer, and performance artist, who uses technology and social media to shape her art and career. In the space of fifteen months, she has become a demographic-smashing pop icon with global reach and impact.

Not since Madonna’s breakout success in the mid-eighties has the world witnessed the advent of a pop-culture provocateur who mixes high-and-low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, “downtown” authenticity with the sheen of glamorous artifice. She has quickly formed a symbiotic relationship with her rabid fan base who have taken to dressing as she does, imitating her hair and make-up in tribute. Gaga, too, is a cultural shape-shifter, allowing her fans to project their needs, wants, confusions, and desires onto her.

This is a must-read for Gaga fans, who, devoted as they are, know next to nothing about who she is and how she got that way, as well as for anyone who has heard Lady Gaga on television and the radio and is curious about America’s latest over-the-top cultural success story.

The Lyre of Orpheus - Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (Hardcover): Christopher Partridge The Lyre of Orpheus - Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (Hardcover)
Christopher Partridge
R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures. He shows how popular musics power to move, to agitate, to control listeners, to shape their identities, and to structure their everyday lives is central to constructions of the sacred and the profane. In particular, he argues that popular music can be important edgework, challenging dominant constructions of the sacred in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of musicians and musical genres, as well as a number of theoretical approaches from critical musicology, cultural theory, sociology, theology, and the study of religion, The Lyre of Orpheus reveals the significance and the progressive potential of popular music.

International Who's Who in Popular Music 2007 (Hardcover, 9th edition): Europa Publications International Who's Who in Popular Music 2007 (Hardcover, 9th edition)
Europa Publications; Edited by (associates) Alison Neale; Series edited by Robert J Elster
R7,426 Discovery Miles 74 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2007 provides biographical details on some of the most talented and influential artists, as well as up-and-coming individuals from the world of popular music. International in scope, this new edition provides information on artists, varying from Eminem to Wynton Marsalis; Ray Davies to Talvin Singh. Listed alphabetically by surname, entries provide full biographical profiles, including personal information, principal career details, recordings and compositions, and full contact details, where available. An index of groups is provided for ease of reference. Appendices include directories listing music festivals, music organizations, music awards and digital music sites providing legal downloads. The careers of pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country music artists from around the world are profiled in this new edition. New artists are included, as well as established names in popular music. Entrants include Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Dizzee Rascal, Gil Scott-Heron and Joss Stone. Over 6,000 alphabetically arranged entries. Fully revised and updated for this ninth edition. Spans the full range of popular music.

Rihanna (Hardcover): Rihanna Rihanna (Hardcover)
Rihanna 1
R3,960 R3,021 Discovery Miles 30 210 Save R939 (24%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Rihanna invites you into her world with this stunning visual autobiography.

From her Barbados childhood to her worldwide tours, from iconic fashion moments to private time with friends and family, the book showcases intimate photographs of her life as an artist, performer, designer, and entrepreneur. Many of these images have never before been published.

This large-format book is 504 pages with 1,050 color images on 3 paper stocks and 7 single- and double-page gatefolds, 9 bound-in booklets, 1 tip-in sheet, and a double-sided, removable poster.

Modern Moves - Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras (Hardcover): Danielle Robinson Modern Moves - Dancing Race during the Ragtime and Jazz Eras (Hardcover)
Danielle Robinson
R3,783 Discovery Miles 37 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Modern Moves traces the movement of American social dance styles between black and white cultural groups and between immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. Its central focus is New York City, where the confluence of two key demographic streams - an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the growth of the city's African American community particularly as it centered Harlem - created the conditions of possibility for hybrid dance forms like blues, ragtime, ballroom, and jazz dancing. Author Danielle Robinson illustrates how each of these forms came about as the result of the co-mingling of dance traditions from different cultural and racial backgrounds in the same urban social spaces. The results of these cross-cultural collisions in New York City, as she argues, were far greater than passing dance trends; they in fact laid the foundation for the twentieth century's social dancing practices throughout the United States. By looking at dance as social practice across conventional genre and race lines, this book demonstrates that modern social dancing, like Western modernity itself, was dependent on the cultural production and labor of African diasporic peoples - even as they were excluded from its rewards. A cornerstone in Robinson's argument is the changing role of the dance instructor, which was transformed from the proprietor of a small-scale, local dance school at the end of the nineteenth century to a member of a distinct, self-identified social industry at the beginning of the twentieth. Whereas dance studies has been slow to connect early twentieth century dancing with period racial politics, Modern Moves departs radically from prior scholarship on the topic, and in so doing, revises social and African American dance history of this period. Recognizing the rac(ial)ist beginnings of contemporary American social dancing, it offers a window into the ways that dancing throughout the twentieth century has provided a key means through which diverse groups of people have navigated shifting socio-political relations through their bodily movement. Modern Moves asserts that the social practice of modern dancing, with its perceived black origins, empowered displaced people such as migrants and immigrants to grapple with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of North American modernity. Far more than simple appropriation, the selling and practicing of "black" dances during the 1910s and 1920s reinforced whiteness as the ideal racial status in America through embodied and rhetorical engagements with period black stereotypes.

Mellencamp (Paperback): Paul Rees Mellencamp (Paperback)
Paul Rees; Foreword by Nora Guthrie
R532 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This definitive biography of John Mellencamp is "a true coming-of-age story" (John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation) of an iconic American rock and roll original, featuring exclusive in-depth interviews and never-before-told details. Perfect for fans of Janis and Born to Run.

John Mellencamp is not your typical rock star.

With music inspired by the work of William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and other giants of American literature, he has experienced a colorful career unlike any other. Now, this fascinating biography fully charts the life of one of this country's most important voices in American music.

Mellencamp's story is also the story of the American heartland. His growth as an artist and evolution into legendary status directly reflected the major changes of the last fifty years. From the Summer of Love to the growing divisiveness of American politics and beyond, his music has served as the backdrop to this country for millions of fans.

Featuring exclusive interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, and exploring everything from the founding of Farm Aid to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is a fresh, expansive, and "inspirational" (Nora Guthrie, president of The Woody Guthrie Foundation) look at a true original.

Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover): Andrew Bennett Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover)
Andrew Bennett
R4,575 Discovery Miles 45 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Music- and style-centred youth cultures are now a familiar aspect of everyday life in countries as far apart around the globe as Nepal and Jamaica, Hong Kong and Israel, Denmark and Australia. This lucid and original text provides a lively and wide-ranging account of the relationship between popular music and youth culture within the context of debates about the spatial dimensions of identity. It begins with a clear and comprehensive survey, and critical evaluation, of the existing body of literature on youth culture and popular music developed by sociologists and cultural and media theorists. It then develops a fresh perspective on the ways in which popular music is appropriated as a cultural resource by young people, using as a springboard a series of original ethnographic studies of dance music, rap, bhangra and rock. Bennett's original research material is carefully contextualised within a wider international literature on youth styles, local spaces and popular music but it serves to illustrate graphically how styles of music and their attendant stylistic innovations are appropriated and `lived out' by young people in particular social spaces. Music, Bennett argues, is produced and consumed by young people in ways that both inform their sense of self and also serve to construct the social world in which their identities operate. With its comprehensive coverage of youth and music studies and its important new insights, Popular Music and Youth Culture is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, media studies and popular music studies. Dr ANDY BENNETT is lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has published articles on aspects of youth culture, popular music, local identity and music and ethnicity in a number of journals, including Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society and Popular Music. He is currently co-editing a book on guitar cultures.

The Ghosts of April - The life and times of the ugliest man in rock (Paperback): David Russell The Ghosts of April - The life and times of the ugliest man in rock (Paperback)
David Russell
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Unrequited Infatuations - A Memoir (Paperback): Stevie Van Zandt Unrequited Infatuations - A Memoir (Paperback)
Stevie Van Zandt
R566 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Shot Frank Zappa - My Life In Photography (Hardcover): Robert JH Davidson, John Elliott I Shot Frank Zappa - My Life In Photography (Hardcover)
Robert JH Davidson, John Elliott
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Moveable Chords (Cards): James Sleigh Moveable Chords (Cards)
James Sleigh
R139 Discovery Miles 1 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Designed for use with the Guitar Cards Chord Starter Pack, this pack of 55 cards gives you over 50 moveable chord shapes. Small enough to fit into your back pocket or guitar case, they are an easy way to learn new chords - suitable for beginners, songwriters and teachers.

Chess Record Corp A Tribute (Paperback): Richard Ganter Chess Record Corp A Tribute (Paperback)
Richard Ganter
R1,023 Discovery Miles 10 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chess Record Corp A Tribute Chess Record Corp , A Tribute is the ultimate pictorial journey of one of the most iconic record labels in the history of music . Chess Records the foundation Rock n roll. See the faces that made Chess one of the most seminal record labels in the world. Virtually, every rock & pop artist in the 20 & 21th century can trace back to the influence and unique sounds of Chess Records artists. This high quality illustrated hard back features over 150 unique artist images from Blues,Gospel,Jazz, Rock & Soul as well as unique memorabilia images. Also includes complete R&B chart entry history of Chess Records and the Chess family archive contributions. A one of a kind 70th anniversary celebration of Chess Records for music fans worldwide. Foreword by Marshall Chess & Introductions by Richard Ganter.

So Much to Say - Dave Matthews Band--20 Years on the Road (Paperback, Original): Nikki Van Noy So Much to Say - Dave Matthews Band--20 Years on the Road (Paperback, Original)
Nikki Van Noy
R540 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In time for the band's twentieth anniversary, the inside story of the Dave Matthews Band-from the early days playing small gigs in Charlottesville to their current sold-out annual summer concert tours...and more than thirty-five million records sold. Dave Matthews Band has one of the largest and most loyal followings of any band today-after twenty years of constant touring and several acclaimed, multiplatinum albums, the members enjoy a connection with their fans that few other acts can match. Ask DMB devotees and they'll happily tell you tales of amazing sold-out summer shows, the stunning venues they've seen the band play all around the world, classic live show recordings...and memories of good times with great friends, old and new. For hundreds of thousands of people, affection for DMB goes far beyond simple fan adulation-it's a way of life. Journalist (and fan) Nikki Van Noy bridges the gap between the band and their followers, looking at the DMB phenomenon from all perspectives-including interviews with the band, Charlottesville insiders who knew them in the early days, and, of course, the DMB fans who witnessed it all. This lively, insider book offers insights into: -The beginnings of the band in Charlottesville, VA-which gave rise to the culture of taping and trading live shows, and the early online networking that laid the groundwork for their later explosive success. -The heady success of their first several albums-when the small "club" of DMB fans suddenly became a lot less exclusive. -Their creative misfires in the early 2000s-including the leaked Lillywhite Sessions. -The crushing sudden loss of saxophonist LeRoi Moore-and how the band emerged stronger than ever. A chronicle of the live Dave Matthews Band experience and what it means to be a part of it, So Much to Say is a comprehensive biography of this incredible group and the fans who helped them achieve such enduring success.

Three Minutes of Magic (Paperback): Patrick Geoffrey Docherty Three Minutes of Magic (Paperback)
Patrick Geoffrey Docherty
R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lightning Striking - Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll (Paperback): Lenny Kaye Lightning Striking - Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll (Paperback)
Lenny Kaye
R592 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Down The Front (Paperback): Adam Broadway Down The Front (Paperback)
Adam Broadway
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One Man's Search for the Perfect Gig You know the way the bass makes your plastic cup of watery beer throb? Who the hell (you think, as you sit there in some huge hangar, peering into the distance) are those ants on the stage? Ever bumped into a celeb and said something that made you sound like a prat? Ever found yourself stuck at a red light in a battered old car with ten of your mates, chased by four angry skinheads? Over more than thirty years of gig-going, Adam Broadway has been there, done that. The Jam, Killing Joke, DeadMau5, Glastonbury, dodgy sanitation and stitches a | The Prodigy, James, U2, Reading, ecstasy and embarrassment a | Leftfield, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Ezio, Cambridge Junction and Brixton Academy, everyday life and Goths - and much, much more. Along the way Adam - yes, now follically challenged and with tinnitus to boot - tells us something the shallow-callow cool-school of rock journalism never could. He tells it like it is. If you ever found music really said something to you about your friends, your relationships, your dreams, your life - the sheer passion and honesty of Down the Front is here to remind you. Join Adam for the best view in the house. a Go on a | get down the front.'

And in the End - The Last Days of the Beatles (Paperback): Ken Mcnab And in the End - The Last Days of the Beatles (Paperback)
Ken Mcnab
R504 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John, Paul & Me Before the Beatles - The True Story of the Very Early Days (Paperback): Len Garry John, Paul & Me Before the Beatles - The True Story of the Very Early Days (Paperback)
Len Garry
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a true life story account of Len Garry's childhood memories of his childhood days spent with John Lennon and Paul McCartney and the forming of the band The Quarrymen. Also the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the very first time at St. Peter's Church fete on 6th July 1957, this book is a first hand account of what took place on that day plus more stories.

150 Glimpses of the Beatles (Paperback): Craig Brown 150 Glimpses of the Beatles (Paperback)
Craig Brown
R520 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Drink with Shane MacGowan (Paperback): Victoria Mary Clarke, Shane MacGowan A Drink with Shane MacGowan (Paperback)
Victoria Mary Clarke, Shane MacGowan
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This bibulous, drug-indulgent and anarchic rock legend was born on a small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk and the hugely influential star of The Pogues. MacGowan's music, innovative and powerful, is as distinctive as his chaotic, breakdown-scarred, drug and alcohol-fuelled lifestyle. MacGowan has an enormous fan-base hungry for stories of his wild behaviour, but this is also a book that celebrates this unique and charming musician, and offers insight into his remarkable perspective on this world - and the next!

Adrenalized - Life, Def Leppard, and Beyond (Paperback): Phil Collen Adrenalized - Life, Def Leppard, and Beyond (Paperback)
Phil Collen; As told to Chris Epting
R421 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Restless Generation (Paperback): Pete Frame The Restless Generation (Paperback)
Pete Frame 2
R608 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R58 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The 1950s represented the birth of rock 'n' roll music in the UK. This title presents a complete history and social analysis of the era tracing the music's emergence from the primitive experimentation of teenage revolutionaries in the coffee bars of London's Soho to the marketing of the first generation of TV idols.

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