- 100 Essential NZ Albums
ISBN: 9780958275033
Title: 100 Essential NZ Albums
Author: BOLLINGER NICK
Compiled by one of New Zealand's most popular music columnists, this listing will delight pop music fans everywhere. The choices included cover a broad range and present an eclectic taste. Each entry is accompanied by some of the most entertaining writing about music and musicians, ranging from personal accounts of youthful encounters with music legends as well as passionate responses to renowned albums. Guaranteed to surprise and intrigue, this reference is a must-have for all music lovers.
Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00$40.00 - As Is Where Is CD
ISBN: 47813091810201
Title: As Is Where Is CD
Author: LAKE BILL
Format: Compact Disc
Price: $25.00$25.00 - As Is Where Is Vinyl + download code
ISBN: 9781300102014
Title: As Is Where Is Vinyl + download code
Author: LAKE BILL
Format: Slipcased
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Betchadupa & Good Pop Alh047 Number 3/10
ISBN: 9780994115027
Title: Betchadupa & Good Pop Alh047 Number 3/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of NZ Popular Music 1918-1964
ISBN: 9781869404550
Title: Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of NZ Popular Music 1918-1964
Author: BOURKE CHRIS
Bringing to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders both at home and out on the town, this history chronicles the evolution of popular music in New Zealand during the 20th century. From the kiwi concert parties during World War I and the arrival of jazz to the rise of swing, country, the Hawaiian sound, and then rock'n'roll, this musical investigation brings to life the people, places, and sounds of a world that has disappeared and uncovers how music from the rest of the world was shaped by Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders into a melody, rhythm, and voice that made sense on these islands. The accompanying audio CD wonderfully brings to life the engaging text, underscoring seminal moments in New Zealand's musical history.
Format: Trade paperback
Price: $60.00$60.00 - Box of Birds CdISBN: 9780187466950
Title: Box of Birds Cd
Author: BLOOD CAPTAIN
Format: Compact Disc
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven 14 Cd Set & Book
ISBN: 822601400481
Title: Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven 14 Cd Set & Book
Author: HOUSTON MICHAEL & BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN
Michael Houstoun is not only New Zealand’s foremost Beethoven pianist, he ranks among the great Beethoven pianists of our age. He celebrated his 60th birthday with an historic cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas, a body of work that constitutes some of the supreme treasures of human artistic endeavour. Written over the length of Beethoven's creative life – from the early Op 2 dedicated to Haydn to the mighty Op 111, which takes the piano into the realms of pure imagination – these works constitute the “New Testament" of the piano repertoire.
Michael returned to New Zealand after his spectacular sweep of prizes from three of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions – the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (1973), the Leeds Competition (1975), and the Tchaikovsky Competition (1982) – to devote his creative energies to the music of his native land. Constantly in demand to perform with our finest orchestras and chamber ensembles (including his regular CMNZ tour with the winners of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition), Michael has also added solo recitals to his repertoire with recent performances of the Goldberg and Beethoven Diabelli Variations.
Michael returns to Beethoven at the very height of his powers.
Format: Compact Disc
Price: $189.00$189.00 - Datsuns & Garage Rock Alh045 Number1/10
ISBN: 9780994115003
Title: Datsuns & Garage Rock Alh045 Number1/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Dunedin Sound: Some Disenchanted Evening
ISBN: 9781869538958
Title: Dunedin Sound: Some Disenchanted Evening
Author: CHAPMAN IAN
Within the colourful, cut-throat, ever-evolving world of popular music, New Zealand's southern-most university city, Dunedin, achieved what numerous other music-rich locations around the globe could only dream of: international recognition of its own sound. Like the Mersey Beat, the Nashville Sound or the Seattle Sound, the Dunedin Sound is known and respected the world over.
Equally revered are the bands involved, such as The Clean, The Chills, The Verlaines and may others you will encounter in this salute to Dunedin's finest. Kicked off by the inimitable punk-infused force that was The Enemy in the late 1970s, and carried to the world throughout the 1980s and beyond in true seat-of-the-pants style by the Flying Nun record label, nobody could have foreseen the huge impact and lasting legacy that a pool of young songwriters and musicians from unfashionable Dunedin would create. Within these pages their extraordinary feat is revisited with the stories and select discographies of an array of bands, and critiques and reminiscences from band members, fans and those in the music scene. The Dunedin Sound is celebrated with a veritable feast of photographs and memorabilia, many of which have never been seen before.
Format: Hardback
Price: $50.00$50.00 - Dunedin Soundings: Place & PerformanceISBN: 9781877578229
Title: Dunedin Soundings: Place & Performance
Author: BENDRUPS DAN & DOWNES GRAEME EDS
New Zealand's 'Dunedin Sound' of the 1980s is a phenomenon known throughout the world. But what does Dunedin music-making sound like in the 21st century? Dunedin Soundings features diverse and interesting essays from musicians, composers, and scholar/practitioners who discuss: genres as diverse as brass band, opera, classical, Indonesian gamelan, jazz, rock, and more * the intricacies of the composition and lyric writing processes * digital remixing * scoring for film and television. Together, they reveal the ways in which these supposedly separate music fields have the potential to inform and stimulate each other. The theoretical idea behind the book is that performance and composition practices constitute a process of research. The writers are practitioners who are recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions to New Zealand music across genres, including composer Anthony Ritchie, the Verlaines' Graeme Downes, Emmy award nominee Trevor Coleman, and Refuel and Dunedinmusic.com founder Scott Muir. This book is for everyone with a serious passion and wide-ranging intellectual curiosity for music.
Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00$40.00 - Ejector & Indie Alh049 Number5/10
ISBN: 9780994115041
Title: Ejector & Indie Alh049 Number5/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in NZ
ISBN: 9780473217662
Title: Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in NZ
Author: RUSSELL BRUCE ED
Erewhon Calling is a survey of how a bunch of antipodean misfits and malcontents have forged new ways and new reasons to make noise, here at the end of the earth. Edited by Bruce Russell (the Dead C.), in association with Richard Francis and Zoe Drayton; the aim of this volume is to survey the full range of ‘non-standard’ audio practices in contemporary NZ culture. The book’s remit runs from the borders of composed art music, through improvised noise, to deconstructed ‘rock’n pop filth’; and every genre, every scene, every permutation of unconventional audio practice in-between.
The aim is not to be comprehensive (there is literally too much vitality and diversity for any book!). The hope is to ‘throw a good handful of gravel into the pool’. While not every eel will have been hit, the surface will have been rippled from shore to shore, which is more than anyone else has even attempted before. Erewhon Calling makes room for many voices, allowing multiple and possibly conflicting voices and points of view. A range of artists and informed commentators mainly tell their own stories, describe their own work, and outline their own goals in working on the fringes of audio culture. The readers of this important new source book will be able to discern their own meanings and make their own connections from this thought-provoking and unique publication.
Text / page works by Branden W. Joseph, Phil Dadson, Bruce Russell, Michael Morley, Byron Coley, Alastair Galbraith, Empirical, White Saucer, Clayton Noone, Andrew Clifford, Jeff Henderson, Daniel Beban and Nell Thomas, Su Ballard, Jon Bywater, Dan Vallor, Clinton Watkins, Witcyst, Andrew Scott, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton, Vitamin S, Jon Dale, Mark Williams, Nathan Thompson, Beth Dawson, Sean O’Reilly, Kraus, Sean Kerr, Peter Stapleton, Stephen Clover, Dugal McKinnon, Omit, Peter Wright, Jo Burzynska, Ian-John Hutchinson, Kim Pieters, Paul Winstanley, Gentle Persuasion, Zoe Drayton, Simon Cuming, Stevie Kaye, Rachel Shearer, Richard Francis, Rosy Parlane, Kiran Dass, None Gallery, Zita Joyce.
Designed by Richard Francis
Format: Paperback
Price: $45.00$45.00 - Events & Festivals Alh050 Number 6/10
ISBN: 9780994115058
Title: Events & Festivals Alh050 Number 6/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Faces in the Firelight Nz Folksong & Story
ISBN: 9781877448706
Title: Faces in the Firelight Nz Folksong & Story
Author: GARLAND PHIL
It's not widely known, but New Zealand has a rich store of song, folklore, poetry, stories and yarns that cry out to be told or sung. Faces in the Firelight presents a swag of songs about pioneers, goldminers, drifters, rogues and scoundrels, shearers, gumdiggers and moonshiners, and a colourful collection of tall stories, toasts and ditties. You'll never be stuck for a song or a story again
Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00$35.00 - Finding Language: the Massey University Composer Addresses
ISBN: 9781776561087
Title: Finding Language: the Massey University Composer Addresses
Author: BROWN MICHAEL MEEHAN NORMAN & HOSKINS ROBERT EDS
From 1995 to 2006, eight New Zealand composers were invited to give an annual public address at Massey University: John Ritchie,
Edwin Carr, David Farquhar, Jack Body, Lyell Cresswell, John Cousins, John Rimmer and Chris Cree Brown. The music of the
‘father of New Zealand composition’, Douglas Lilburn, formed the subject of a ninth address by pianist Margaret Nielsen.
Finding Language collects together all the Massey Composer Addresses for the first time. The addresses show some of our most
prominent musical practitioners reflecting, in their own words, upon their creative practices, formative influences, the role of
composers in New Zealand society, and other concerns close to their hearts. The results are a fascinating compendium of views on
New Zealand art composition in the twentieth century and beyond.
Included in Finding Language: The Massey Composer Addresses are the original overviews of each composer’s work by series convenor
Robert Hoskins, together with new afterwords, bibliographic resources, and an introduction. An essential sourcebook for all students
and aficionados of New Zealand art music, as well as those interested in the development of the arts in this country.
Michael Brown works as Curator, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. He has written on various aspects of New
Zealand music and culture. In 2015, he collaborated with artist Mat Tait on the graphic fiction The Heading Dog Who Split in Half:
Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand (Potton & Burton, 2015).
Norman Meehan is a Wellington-based composer, pianist, writer and teacher. His many releases include five collaborations with the
vocalist Hannah Griffin and Bill Manhire and other poets. He is the author of Time Will Tell: Conversations with Paul Bley, Serious
Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock and New Zealand Jazz Life.
Robert Hoskins is a retired academic. He is the series editor of a number of musical projects and has published on colonial balladry,
eighteenth-century English music, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific writings. His most recent book is Memories of Early Years:
Douglas Lilburn (Steele Roberts, 2015).
Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00$40.00 - Goneville: a Memoir
ISBN: 9781927249543
Title: Goneville: a Memoir
Author: BOLLINGER NICK
In his award-winning memoir, New Zealand writer and musician Nick Bollinger talks with complete candour about his unorthodox childhood, his obsession with music, the impact of a family tragedy, and the journey that would decide the course of his life. Bollinger was just 18 when he went on the road with the band Rough Justice and its smoky-voiced, charismatic leader Rick Bryant. The next two years were sometimes uplifting and exciting, other times enervating and depressing. It was the 1970s and pot was plentiful. Often, though, the band was short of other things: money, food, shelter, and petrol for its increasingly ramshackle, broken-down bus.
Goneville is both a coming-of-age story and an intimate look at the evolving music scene in '70s New Zealand. It shows how this music intersected - sometimes violently - with the prevailing culture, in which real men played rugby, not rock. Nick Bollinger draws on his own experiences, seeks out key players and unsung heroes and vividly portrays a divided country, set to shatter apart for a generation.
Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing.
Format: Hardback
Price: $39.00$39.00 - How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana & the Song that Stormed the World
ISBN: 9781927249222
Title: How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana & the Song that Stormed the World
Author: GRIGG SIMON
Pauly Fuemana of the group Otara Millionaires Club (OMC) was the charismatic singer and creator, with producer Alan Jansson, of the hit record How Bizarre. After the record's release in 1995 it stormed to number one in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and European countries and Fuemana appeared twice on Britain's top-rated TV show Top of the Pops. It was named Single of the Year at the New Zealand Music Awards and remains the country's most internationally successful indie record of all time, having sold over 4 million copies and appeared on at least 100 compilations.
Despite the song's phenomenal success, Fuemana was deeply troubled and found fame hard to handle. His friend, mentor and music publisher Simon Grigg gives a riveting blow-by-blow account of the singer's life and the song's beginnings, runaway success, and effect on Fuemana and the people around him. Along the way there are fascinating and often shocking insights into the ruthlessness of the music industry. This is an inside story never told before.
Format: Paperback
Price: $38.00$38.00 - How to Hear Classical Music #11 Ginger Series
ISBN: 9781877551000
Title: How to Hear Classical Music #11 Ginger Series
Author: CADDY DAVINIA
Have you ever wondered why most classical music concerts are such stuffy affairs? Had to bluff your way through conversations about classical music? Want to get a handle on music by the modern composers? Tried and failed to convince teenagers of the merits of Beethoven or Bach? Or just want a great read on music you love? How to Hear Classical Music is all this and more. Davinia Caddy, an accomplished musician, historian and music writer, provides a thrilling and uplifting guide to classical music that's bound to cause waves. Like all the books in the popular Awa Press Ginger Series, How to Hear Classical Music opens a window into a fascinating world.
Format: Paperback
Price: $26.00$26.00 - How to Listen to Pop Music (#3 Ginger Series)
ISBN: 9780958250962
Title: How to Listen to Pop Music (#3 Ginger Series)
Author: BOLLINGER NICK
This comprehensive and illuminating guide explores the entire spectrum of pop music, from Beatlemania and the long-playing record to Eminem and the iPod.
Format: Paperback
Price: $26.00$26.00 - I Felt Like a Fight Alright
ISBN: 9780473181710
Title: I Felt Like a Fight Alright
Author: CARR RUTH
Despite album titles as black as midnight, Minuit songs can be as joyful as a fat kid with cake, Rolling Stone Magazine. Ever wondered what goes on in that head of Ruth's? It's not often you get to find out. 'I Felt Like A Fight, Alright' is a collection of one-liners, poems, lyrics and tales that give a behind the scenes look at, well, we are not quite sure what it's giving you a look at, but just don't stare at it for too long...
Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00$25.00 - If I Only Had Time the Autobiography
ISBN: 9781869663292
Title: If I Only Had Time the Autobiography
Author: ROWLES JOHN
John Rowles had the popular music world at his feet in Britain in 1969. Managed by Peter Gormley, the same man who ran Cliff Richard's career, Rowles had two hits in the British top 20, 'If I Only Had Time' and 'Hush Not A Word To Mary'. Forty years later John admits that if had stayed in the UK he could have laid the base for a multi-million dollar career. But homesick for the sun, the 21-year-old Kiwi gave it all up for Hawaii in 1970, and signed up as a caberet star at the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki Beach. It had been a sensational rise for the kid from Kawerau who left home at 15 to play guitar. Basing himself in Hawaii, John's stellar career continued with regular trips all over the USA and appearing on television. He travelled back and forth to New Zealand and Australia regularly and released numerous albums, featuring best-selling hits such as 'Cheryl, Moana Marie' and 'Tania'. Following a highly successful Farewell Tour of New Zealand where he performed over 25 sold out two-and-a-half hour shows with his six-piece band, John Rowles recalls a lifetime of achievements in his highly illustrated autobiography. He speaks candidly to Angus Gillies about the highs and lows of his professional and personal life.
Format: Hardback
Price: $25.00$25.00 - Im With the Band
ISBN: 9780986468469
Title: Im With the Band
Author: CHUNN BARNEY & JEREMY & MIKE
Whether you want to make a living from music or play for fun, this is the essential guide to the New Zealand music industry. I'M WITH THE BAND explains everything you need to know from recording demos to signing contracts, from hiring a manager to protecting your music. Key figures in the New Zealand industry share their inside knowledge and experiences to help everyone from the hobby band to the performer on the brink of discovery.
Format: Hardback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - In Love With These Times: The Flying Nun Story
ISBN: 9781775540892
Title: In Love With These Times: The Flying Nun Story
Author: SHEPHERD ROGER
The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen. I wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label. I must have been drunk. Roger Shepherd was working in a Christchurch record shop when he realised the local bands he loved needed someone to make their records. Flying Nun was born. Those records and the bands that created them them - The Chills, The Clean, Chris Knox and the Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits and many more - went on to define an era and create what became known as "the Dunedin Sound". In truth it was less a unified sound than a spirit of adventure and independence that characterised the Flying Nun ethos. In this long-awaited memoir, label founder Roger Shepherd describes the idealism and passion that drove the project in the first place, the hard realities of the music industry, and the constant tension between art and commerce. Filled with revealing anecdote and insight, this is the definitive insider history of the one of the most innovative and original record labels of the modern era. "Surely the label with the highest quality output per capita in pop history." - Guardian UK. "Something inexplicably special happened in the Southern Hemisphere a quarter of a century or so ago, the ripples still rumbling, and without it, all the music you love today would sound ever so slightly, and indefinably, different." - British comedian Stewart Lee.
Format: Trade paperback
Price: $37.00$37.00 - Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, Composer
ISBN: 9781927242735
Title: Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, Composer
Author: SHENNAN J, WHITEHEAD G & ASKEW S
nternationally renowned composer and ethnomusicologist Jack Body is 70 — celebrate his birthday and unswerving commitment to New Zealand music with this beautiful volume. Featuring more than 120 contributions, Jack! is an astounding collection of memories, photos, paintings, art and music from friends and colleagues such as Vincent Ward, Slamet A Sjukur, Geoff Chapple, Martin Lodge, Tan Dun, Charles Te Ahukaramu Royal, Gao Ping, Ian Wedde, Gareth Farr, Budi Putra, José Evangelista and Richard Nunns.
Woven between the stories is a transcript of Jack’s comprehensive Radio NZ ‘Composer of the Week’ interview with Elizabeth Kerr.
A must for lovers of contemporary New Zealand music.
Format: Hardback
Price: $40.00$40.00 - Kiwi Pacific Records Story
ISBN: 9780947493226
Title: Kiwi Pacific Records Story
Author: VERCOE TONY
These interviews trace Kiwi Pacific Records from its beginnings as a division of publishers AH & AW Reed Ltd to its independence as Kiwi Pacific Records, all under the direction of Tony Vercoe.
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Kiwi Ukulele: the Nz Ukulele Handbook
ISBN: 9780958282987
Title: Kiwi Ukulele: the Nz Ukulele Handbook
Author: DICKINSON MIKE
Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00$25.00 - Living Echoes: the First 150 Years of Piano Music from Nz
ISBN: 9790901320765
Title: Living Echoes: the First 150 Years of Piano Music from Nz
Author: BIBBY GILLIAN ED
Here are 54 of the most charming, scary, funny, and dancing pieces of the piano music of New Zealand’s first years, written by 32 composers over 150 years. Their manuscripts were mostly unpublished – until now.
The earliest of the composers was the extraordinary Baron de Thierry. Fascinated by romantic tales of the voyages of Captain Cook, he bought land in the Hokianga in 1822. Later there were emigres escaping a war in Europe. Some of the pieces were written by children who went on to have marvellous musical careers. Other composers are still very much alive.
The music is suitable for a wide variety of pianists. Some are very easy and can be played by beginners. The pieces become successively more advanced, up to grade 7 level.
Format: Paperback
Price: $34.00$34.00 - Lorde Your Heroine the Unauthorised BiographyISBN: 9781760111861
Title: Lorde Your Heroine the Unauthorised Biography
Author: SHAPIRO MARC
New Zealander newcomer Lorde released her debut album, Pure Heroine, in September 2013. It reached the top of the modern rock/alternative and rock albums charts, and the lead single 'Royals' won the 2014 Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Lorde's a musical performer with a style that is as haunting as it is enticing and is as famous for her unique and powerfully intriguing voice as she is for her refreshing frankness and intelligence. Called the voice of her generation, Lorde's achievements are all the more amazing because of her young age. Signed by Universal at the age of thirteen, she's wowed the world with her vocal prowess and captivating stage presence, and her songs have won awards around the world -- all by the age of seventeen.
Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00$25.00 - Made in Australia & Aotearoa/NZ: Studies In Popular Music
ISBN: 9781138195691
Title: Made in Australia & Aotearoa/NZ: Studies In Popular Music
Author: BRUNT SHELLEY & STAHL GEOFF (EDS)
Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.
Format: Trade paperback
Price: $63.00$63.00 - Mint Chicks & the Underground Alh046 Number 2/10
ISBN: 9780994115010
Title: Mint Chicks & the Underground Alh046 Number 2/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Movement a Low Hum Box Set (black)ISBN: 9518526547530
Title: Movement a Low Hum Box Set (black)
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Boxed Set
Price: $269.00$269.00 - Movement a Low Hum Box Set (orange)ISBN: 9780473316792
Title: Movement a Low Hum Box Set (orange)
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Boxed Set
Price: $340.00$340.00 - Music from Nz 2000-2015 Number 1 Alh053 Number 9/10
ISBN: 9780994115089
Title: Music from Nz 2000-2015 Number 1 Alh053 Number 9/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Music from Nz 2000-2015 Number 2 Alh054 Number 10/10
ISBN: 9780994115096
Title: Music from Nz 2000-2015 Number 2 Alh054 Number 10/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Nga Moteatea the Songs Part 2 With 2 Cds
ISBN: 9781869403447
Title: Nga Moteatea the Songs Part 2 With 2 Cds
Author: NGATA A T & JONES PEI TE HURINUI
An essential text for anyone studying Polynesian music and culture or Maori, Pacific Island, or New Zealand history, this redesigned edition of the classic study of Maori music contains an annotated collection of traditional Maori songsthe waiata. Study of the waiata is enhanced by the included recordings of the songs performed by traditional Maori singers.
Format: Hardback
Price: $75.00$75.00 - Nz Irish Voices Stories from Irish Migrants & Their Descendants
ISBN: 9781877513145
Title: Nz Irish Voices Stories from Irish Migrants & Their Descendants
Author: HANSEN KAREN
Sticky Little Fingers is a fundraising cookbook produced by Normandale Playcentre - a parent co-operative for children aged five years and under. The book features over 100 pages of 'tried and tested' family recipes, including children?s favourite dishes, as well as recipes for 'messy play'.
Format: Paperback
Price: $33.00$33.00 - NZ Jazz Life
ISBN: 9781776560929
Title: NZ Jazz Life
Author: MEEHAN NORMAN & WHINCUP TONY
Drawing on 39 interviews with leading New Zealand jazz musicians, New Zealand Jazz Life is a ground-breaking survey of the vibrant local scene. In best jazz style, eight solos – first-person portraits of major musicians – alternate with ensemble passages that enlarge on the key themes:
• discovering jazz
• learning to play
• starting a career
• living and working as a musician overseas
• what it means to play black American music in New Zealand
• the emergence of a New Zealand sound
• the state of jazz in contemporary New Zealand
• what jazz in New Zealand needs to go forward
New Zealand Jazz Life is essential and inspiring reading for musicians and fans, and a fascinating insight into the opportunities and
predicaments encountered by practitioners of any art form in New Zealand.
Norman Meehan is a Wellington-based composer, pianist, writer and teacher. His many releases include five collaborations with
the vocalist Hannah Griffin and Bill Manhire and other poets. He is the author of Time Will Tell: Conversations with Paul Bley and
Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock.
Tony Whincup (1944–2015) was a leading New Zealand photographer whose longterm relationship with Kiribati and its people led
to several award-winning books.
Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00$40.00 - Organs & Organists: Their Inside StoriesISBN: 9780473411602
Title: Organs & Organists: Their Inside Stories
Author: SETCHELL JENNY
"Organs and Organists: Their Inside Stories" is a light-hearted and unique look behind the façade of pipe organs. See in pictures and diagrams how they work, and read what organists from around the world confess are their most embarrassing and hilarious stories from their musical lives. See close-up some of the most famous pipe organs in the world and learn what makes them the King of Instruments. More than 470 full-colour photos, and cartoons by Al Nisbet, illustrate a volume which is not just for musicians but anyone with an interest in pipe organs.
Format: Paperback
Price: $39.00$39.00 - Overseas & Internationals Alh052 Number 8/10
ISBN: 9780994115072
Title: Overseas & Internationals Alh052 Number 8/10
Author: JORGENSEN IAN
Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00$30.00 - Piano Forte Stories & Soundscapes from Colonial NzISBN: 9781877372797
Title: Piano Forte Stories & Soundscapes from Colonial Nz
Author: MOFFAT KRISTINE
The phrase 'colonial New Zealand piano' immediately and inevitably conjures up the image of the grand piano on a deserted beach that is the leitmotif of Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano: both a powerful symbol of the incongruity of the piano in this context, its status as 'alien' intruder, and a moving testimony to the personal and cultural value of the instrument that accompanied its owner to the far side of the world. Did nineteenth-century European settlers share the fictional Ada McGrath's passionate attachment to her instrument? Was the instrument particularly valued by middle and upper class women, or did it transcend gender and class divides? How did Maori react to the melodies the piano released? Were the sounds it produced, in terms of both sonority and repertoire, affected by the new environment? What kinds of physical places did pianos occupy? This book attempts to answer these questions and in so doing to thus gain an understanding of the place and significance of the piano in colonial New Zealand culture and society.
Format: Paperback
Price: $45.00$45.00
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