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.
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 - Space Is The Place: The lives and times of Sun Ra
One of America’s most prolific and daring musicians, Sun Ra located himself in outer space, beyond both the geographical limits of the United States and t..(read more)
Publisher: Da Capo Press / ISBN: 978-0306808555
Author: John Szwed
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Biography, Free Jazz.
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.
