1000 Record Covers by Michael Ochs
$44.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music ...Show more
Ridley Scott: A Retrospective by IAN. NATHAN
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Category: Performing Arts
Illustrated with images as iconic as they are stunning and including the author's first-hand experiences on set and interviews with the great director, this magnificent book charts the extraordinary journey of Britain's greatest living director. Telling the stories behind Alien and Blade Runner, Gladiat ...Show more
Guitar Chords For Dummies by Antoine Polin
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Category: Performing Arts
Chords, chords, and (almost) nothing but chords Guitar Chords For Dummies is full of, well, guitar chords. This indispensable reference is a must for guitarists of every ambition, skill level, and musical genre, providing a key to the simplest and most complex guitar chords--over 600 in all. Each chor ...Show more
The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Basinger
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Category: Performing Arts
Irresistible and authoritative, The Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies. Leading film historian Jeanine B ...Show more
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox
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Category: Performing Arts
"Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before." --Seth Meyers "A fascinating snapshot at a crucial moment in the fast-mutating world of comedy." --Patton Oswalt From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of ...Show more
Wild and Crazy Guys - How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen
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Category: Performing Arts
Wild and Crazy Guys is the larger-than-life story of the much-loved Hollywood comedy stars that ruled the 1980s. As well as delving behind the scenes of classic movies such as Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places and dozens more, it chronicles the off-screen, larger-than-l ...Show more
ABBA: The Scrapbook by Jean-Marie Potiez
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Category: Performing Arts
Over thirty years since their triumphant victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Waterloo' in 1974, ABBA's unfailing popularity remains. From dancefloor classics like 'Dancing Queen' and 'Mamma Mia' to ballads like 'The Winner Takes It All' ABBA's musical legacy endures and their songs have been co ...Show more
The Drover's Wife PLAY NOT THE BOOK by Leah Purcell
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Category: Performing Arts
Henry Lawson's iconic story gets a fresh re-write. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's hol ...Show more
Marina Abramovic Private Archaeology by Justin Clemens
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Category: Performing Arts
In this major exhibition at Mona, the world famous grandmother of performance art takes you through a 'private archaeology' of her life's work: from iconic early pieces to more recent 'transitory' spiritual works, as well as mindfulness exercises fresh from the Marina Abramovic Institute. Published on t ...Show more
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
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Category: Performing Arts
‘Don’t think, dear’ said Balanchine. ‘Just do.’ For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient and feminine. It is the crucible of womanhood, together with the harassment, physical abuse and eating disorders endemic at top schools. Can we abide this in a post # ...Show more
Love of My Life: The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones
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Category: Performing Arts
If you are one of the many millions who watched the Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody you may suppose that Mary Austin was the love of Freddie Mercury's life, the woman who he could never quite let go of. The truth is more complicated. Respected biographer and music journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones explo ...Show more
Limelight January/February 2021 by Limelight
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Category: Performing Arts
Cover story- The Room Where it Happens. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton quickly became the most sought after ticket on Broadway after opening in 2015. We look at why a rap musical about an American founding father, featuring an ethnically diverse cast, became a blockbuster. We also meet the perfor ...Show more