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The fabulous singer who spied for the French Resistance, adopted twelve children, marched with Martin Luther King, was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'h... read more

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Josephine Baker

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£18.99

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How do you write music to serve the socialist state? Yet that is what a generation of Russian composers had to do. Some produced superb music; many more suffered terribly in the Gulag.

The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin ...

Michel Krielaars

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A carefully researched account of the fifty women who made up the orchestra. A niece of Mahler's was one, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE another. Friendship, coercion, collaboration, cruelty and... read more

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival ...

Anne Sebba

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£22.00

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Narrated by Mozart in three periods of his life: as a child in London, as an angst-ridden youth in Paris, and as a man in sight of his own death in Leipzig. Charlatans and aristocrats abound... read more

Allegro: A Novel

Ariel Dorfman

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Morris made his name as a photographer of the reggae and punk scenes of the 1970s: Bob Marley, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the Sex Pistols, Jimmy Cliff, Patti Smith and many others.

Dennis Morris: Life + Music

Dennis Morris

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£40.00

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You get the sense that the interviews for this oral history – drawn from several decades of conversations with Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Liam Gallagher, Sarah Lucas, Kate M... read more

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Dylan Jones

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Henderson lends an ear to the world around him, to both the audible and the inaudible... the rustling of the Northern Lights, the sound of desert sands, the subterranean boom of a volcano...... read more

A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous

Caspar Henderson

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Charts the legend's mature years, from his 1966 motorcycle accident to now.

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: Ã¢â‚¬ËœFar a ...

Clinton Heylin

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Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War ...

Jeremy Eichler

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From childhood to the 1970s and her marriage to Sonny - therefore doesn't include her account of a surprising publicity stunt in 1979 (?) when she appeared at a boys school not unknown to li... read more

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Cher

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A memoir by the Swedish singer-songwriter who found her voice with Poly Styrene and Viv Albertine, later working with Massive Attack and others in her long career in music.

A Thousand Threads

Neneh Cherry

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Full of wonderful pics, this is a magnificent tribute to the genre that so many love and so many love to disdain.

Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania under the Mirror Ball ...

Frank DeCaro

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£42.50

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An account not only of The Ring's inception but also of its controversial reception and legacy.

Story of the Century: Wagner and the Creation of The Ring ...

Michael Downes

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A meditation on music and composition (his own as well as others') that takes an original path from Bach to film, jazz, literature and neuroscience.

The Point of Distraction

Will Eaves

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A celebration of the farewell tour, full of glittering images - including many from the archives - of Elton sporting some of the most outrageous garments ever conceived.

Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour ...

Elton John

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The inspiring story of The Messiah's creation takes place against a magnificent portrait of Georgian England.

Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah

Charles King

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Besides delving into Beethoven's story, Suchet relates his experience of the music to aspects of his own life as a foreign correspondent. The result is an affecting testament to a lifelong e... read more

In Search of Beethoven: A Personal Journey

John Suchet

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The author is a percussionist, composer and ethnomusicologist - so get with the beat, Baggy! Another small gem for dipping into from Wooden Books, nicely illustrated and not actually made of... read more

Rhythm: Pattern in Time

Julian Gerstin

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A magnificent, global social history of pop music, by the producer once at the forefront of world music.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music ...

Joe Boyd

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Her troubled life told through flashbacks of moments in her last year.

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last ...

Paul Alexander

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An outstanding biography of the great Polish expat, genius pianist, companion of Georges Sand. Showing deep historical knowledge and cultural understanding, as well as detailed musical comme... read more

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

Professor Alan Walker

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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life ...

Amy Key

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Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor ...

Emma Warren

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By the chief conductor of the LSO, formerly of the ROH.

My Life in Music

Sir Antonio Pappano

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Short stories and excerpts by Seth, Turgenev, Woolf, Mansfield, Nabokov, Angelou and many others. A new addition to the Everyman anthologies in stripey jackets.

Music Stories

Wesley Stace

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Featuring Brian Dillon, Wendy Erskine, Aingeala Flannery, McKenzie Wark et al...

You Spin Me Round: Essays on Music

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Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain ...

Jeffrey Boakye

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Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir

Andras Schiff

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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck ...

Michael Rose

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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri

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Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: A Box Set ...

Stephen Sondheim

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I Don’t Take Requests

Tony Marnoch

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The role of surrealism and the cultural milieu of Paris in the 1940s helped inspire Boulez's emotional and radical music. CP's last book - on Eric Satie - was excellent.

Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium

Caroline Potter

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Perspicacious readings of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's Fidelio, Berlioz's Les Troyens, and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.

Said on Opera

Edward Said

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From Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn to Nina Simone.

Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives

Susan Tomes

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Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer Of Bayreuth

Barry Millington

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