(Paperback)

Music is shaped by the science of sound.

(Hardback)

Michael Stipe's enchanting photo-diary of Patti Smith on tour, with words by Stipe, Patti Smith, William Burroughs, and more.

(Hardback)

A mesmerising collection of evocative and sometimes erotic photographs of trangressive queer musical icon Peaches, both on and off stage.

(Paperback)

A unique exploration of how music makes us who we are, throughout our lives.

(Paperback)

Charts the course of music over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, linking it to developments in literature, theatre, cinema and the visual arts, and to popular music from Irving Berlin to The Beatles to rap. The result is a stimulating, provocative and always informative cultural history.

(Paperback)

In Try Whistling This , join a perceptive critic on a pleasurable journey through music and musicians, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to 1610, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwangler to keep conducting under the Nazis.

(Hardback, Main)

This volume contains the names of over fifty thousand metal bands. Never has a music relegated to the underground of a civilization had so many devotees; no radio need transmit the power of this music, for it is sought fiercely and freely by the doomed and the dispossessed, whose ears are never touched by songs of love and weakness.

(Paperback, Reprint)

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The humble ukelele is making a comeback. Its sweet, simple and friendly quality makes you want to slow down, listen and join in. Read this book and you'll become a believer too.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The definitive autobiography of musician, singer-songwriter and producer Ian Broudie, chronicling his career as frontman of multi-platinum-selling rock band the Lightning Seeds, with tales of Britpop stardom and footballing royalty along the way.