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Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City - Couverture souple

Morley, Mr Paul

 
9780747557784: Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0747557780 ISBN 13 : 9780747557784
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

Synopsis

It's late at night. Imagine tuning your radio to, let's say, Radio 3, in one of those places with wayward reception There are bursts that reveal the programme to be a vigorously expressed account of the genesis and evolution of pop music 'Cage took the silences in the air around us, and spread them through his music' But then is this the John Cage who 'eventually ended up as a character in 'Ally McBeal' or the musician behind the completely silent 4'33? And talking of 'completely silent' - 'The Sound of Silence' - 'the thing about Simon & Garfunkel is that their songs were 96% heartwarming, with very little of the remaining 4 % anything like mindblowing. More sort of mind sucking'. And then there are bursts of the music itself, it's meanings, its hidden depths, its obvious shallowness. On the surface this book is essentially an explanation and a justification of tracks that might be included on a two-disc discography of seminal moments in pop music history, but Paul Morley is a man obsessed, and he's about to share his obsession with us, the reader, in pursuit of 'the sexily philosophical things crawling through the moist, scratchy undergrowth of rock and roll'.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul Morley grew up in Stockport, Cheshire, and has worked as a music journalist, pop svengali and broadcaster. He is the author of a number of books on music – Ask: The Chatter of Pop, Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City, Joy Division: Piece by Piece: Writing About Joy Division 1977–2007 and Joy Division: Fragments – as well as an acclaimed memoir of his early years, Nothing. Paul has written for a number of publications, including the New Statesman, the Sunday Telegraph, NME, the Observer and the Guardian.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0747557780
ISBN 13 
9780747557784
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
WordUnited GmbH
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