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Absolutely on Music
An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a...RM56.50 -
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former...RM56.50 -
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by the renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams In this classic...RM78.00 -
Banana Punk Rawk Trails: A Euro-Fool’s Metal Punk Journeys in Malaysia, Borneo and Indonesia
Between 2010 and 2015, travel writer, author and metal punk guitarist Marco Ferrarese was the one and only ‘white elephant in the room’ of the...RM48.00 -
Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera
Bangsawan – the first popular urban commercial theatre in the Malay peninsula – emerged in the late nineteenth century as an adaptation of the...RM65.00 -
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: On Where Eagles Dare
Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard...RM50.00 -
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his...RM62.90 -
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Children of the Stone is the unlikely story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who confronts the...RM131.90 -
Coltrane: The Story of Sound
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first...RM52.50 -
Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era
The 1950s and ’60s are now thought to be the Golden Age of Malay film A big part of what made films of this era so popular was their beguiling...RM75.00 -
D’Albuquerque’s Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia’s Portuguese Settlement
When the Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the bustling port of Malacca in 1511, he effectively gained control of the entire South...RM158.50 -
Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia
The rock era is over, according to one pop music expert Another laments that rock music is “metamorphosed into the musical wallpaper of ten...RM95.00 -
First Time Ever: A Memoir
Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music...RM58.00 -
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words
As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came...RM65.90 -
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine
Music and dance play a central role in the "healing arts" of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of...RM138.00 -
Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context
There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds The human body is a sound-making organism In densely...RM418.50 -
I Will Send My Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the Singing of Kam Raw
Today, the Kammu are an upland people mainly found in Laos, Yunnan, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam This people - who have retained their orally based...RM115.00 -
I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist The genius behind such classic songs...RM79.90