Paul Morley
Autor de Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City
Sobre El Autor
Writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic Paul Morley has written about music, art, and entertainment since the 1970s. A founding member of the electronic collective Art of Noise and a member of staff at the Royal Academy of Music, he is the author of Ask: The Chatter of Pop; Words and Music: A mostrar más History of Pop in the Shape of a City; Joy Division: Piece by Piece; Earthbound; The North; and Nothing. mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Morley, Paul
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1957-03-26
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Farnham, Surrey, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Eccles, Lancashire, England, UK
- Educación
- Stockport Grammar School
Royal Academy of Music - Ocupaciones
- music journalist
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 20
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 613
- Popularidad
- #41,002
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 14
- ISBNs
- 40
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 3
Flash forward a generation or so, and Morley is well past his mid-life crisis, and has reinvented himself as a commentator on classical music for the aging hipsters of the world. In as much as I resemble that remark, I actually got a good bit out of this book. Morley's adventures in trying to get a clue, his overview of a lot of music I might not otherwise have heard of, and some astute comments on the rise and fall of a certain type of music environment and economy, were all well appreciated. However, there is no denying that this work probably could have been about 150 pages shorter, and is more of a memoir of Morley's career, than a left-field history of classical music.… (más)