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Read [Paul Morley Book] * Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City Has pop burnt itself out?Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. Detours and sights along the way include Missy Elliot, Jarvis Cocker, Eminem, Human League, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Now! That's What I Call Music, Ornette Coleman and the ghost of Elvis Presley.. A succession of celebrities, geniuses and other protagonists led by Madonna, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Erik Satie, John Cage and Wittgenstein appear to give their points of view]
| Title | : | Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820327050 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
Paul Morley is a magazine and newspaper journalist, TV critic, TV presenter, TV producer and director, record producer, and formerly a musical artist with the group The Art of Noise. His books include "Nothing," the acclaimed memoir, and "Ask," a collection of his writings from the British pop music weekly "NME (New Musical Express)."
Has pop burnt itself out?Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. Detours and sights along the way include Missy Elliot, Jarvis Cocker, Eminem, Human League, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Now! That's What I Call Music, Ornette Coleman and the ghost of Elvis Presley.. A succession of celebrities, geniuses and other protagonists led by Madonna, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Erik Satie, John Cage and Wittgenstein appear to give their points of view
J. Book said Music and list junkies of the world unite, for the highly analytical. I grew up reading the liner notes of Paul Morley on records by Art Of Noise, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, and whatever else he did on ZTT in the early to mid-1980's. I became aware of his work as a journalist with the New Musical Express, but being from Honolulu with no access to the NME, I never read those pieces. Nonetheless, Morley's unique style of writing made a big impact on me, as he seemed to be someone who just didn't take a casual listen. He we
(HARP Magazine) . This is no mean achievement; arguably it's a very perverse one. (The Guardian)Mr. (Village Voice)His musical trip to the center of the secret history of man/machine music is all about the ride and not the arrival. He appears to have actually listenednot heard, listenedto almost all the music you might file under 'Popular'. But that too is a kind of recommendation. Morley, to be sure, is something of a genius; he is also a very strange man. But it makes you want to try: which is why this book is at heart a passionate, irresistible encouragement to listen more, and to listen better. The book's Napoleonic ambitions throw up an ultimately overwhelming succession of lists and genealogies, which paradoxically proves the impossibility of corralling a
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