Leah Broad - Quartet – How Four Women Challenged the Musical World
Highlights the lives, loves, and musical careers of four extraordinary women: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen. Leah Broad resur..(read more)
Publisher: Faber / ISBN: 9780571366118
Author: Leah Broad
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, Composers, Female Icons, Pioneers, UK.
Nico B and Edward Colver - Christian Death: Only Theatre of Pain (hardcover book)
Nico B, a friend of Rozz Williams, edited this oversized hardcover book. Edward Colver’s photos capture rare moments, Colver and band members tell the story o..(read more)
Publisher: Cult Epics / ISBN: 9780999862766
Author: Nico B and Edward Colver
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, Cult Epics, Death Rock, Gothic Rock, Photography, USA.
You Nakai - Reminded By the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music
Engagingly written and a pleasant read, this extraordinary study offers fresh insights into Tudor’s reclusive personal life and elusive creative complexit..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780190686765
Author: You Nakai
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Biography, Composers, Electronic, Sound Art, USA.
Éliane Radigue - Intermediary Spaces – Espaces Intermédiaires
One of the most innovative and influential contemporary composers, from her early electronic music through to her acoustic work of the last fifteen years.
Publisher: Umland / ISBN : 978908264957-4
Author: Éliane Radigue
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, Composers, Electronic Music, Female Icons, Pioneers.
David Toop - Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound
Brilliant new publication by the imprint of Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz. English musician and writer David Toop’s memoirs!
Publisher: Ecstatic Peace Library / 9781787601529
Author: David Toop
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Biography, Free Improvisation, UK.
Frans de Waard - This Is supposed To Be A Record Label
New edition at a lower price. Eleven years of Staalplaat history (1992-2003) from the perspective of Mr. Staalplaat himself. In his typical, dry style, he remin..(read more)
Publisher: Timeless Editions
Author: Frans de Waard
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Amsterdam, Biography, History, Noise.
Eugene Chadbourne - Dreamory
Guitarist and singer Eugene Chadbourne looked back at his career (The ceaseless stream of records and cassettes, his own Parachute label, his band Shockabilly, ..(read more)
Publisher: House of Chadula / ISBN: 978-0-692-26989-3
Author: Eugene Chadbourne
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Biography, Eccentrics, Free-folk, USA.
Lawrence Sutin - Divine Invasions – A Life of Philip K. Dick
Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America’s greatest novelists and science fiction’s greatest ambassador to literary audiences...(read more)
Publisher: Da Capo Press / ISBN: 9780786716234
Author: Lawrence Sutin
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, Science Fiction.
John Szwed - The Man who Recorded the World – a Biography of Alan Lomax
The biographer of Sun Ra and Miles Davis chronicles the life and times of Alan Lomax, a man who has been instrumental in preserving America’s musical heri..(read more)
Publisher: William Heinemann / ISBN 978-0-14-312073-5
Author: John Szwed
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biography, Blues, Folk, History.
