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All Gates Open - The Story of Can by Rob Young; Irmin Schmidt
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of what would come to be called the Krautroc ...Show more
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
$18.98 NZD
$33.00 (42% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Faber Social Ser.
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR. MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guitar ...Show more
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's ... by Rob Young
$18.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators. In a sweeping panorama of Albion's sou ...Show more
Keep 'Er Lit by Van Morrison
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
A new volume of the timeless lyrics of Van Morrison selected by the legendary singer-songwriter himself, edited by Eamonn Hughes, with a new foreword by Paul Muldoon.
On Connection by Kae Tempest
$16.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness.The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new d ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
$16.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Faber Social Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones
$32.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history. The sound of Wichita Lineman was the sound of ecstatic solitude - but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a ...Show more
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