Arts & Photography | Music

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

by Paul Morley

2020-05-13 02:05:31

Compare Price
Has pop burnt itself out?Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. A succession of celebrities, geniuses and other protagonists led by Madonna, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Erik Satie, John Cage and Wittgenstein... Read more

Has pop burnt itself out?

Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. 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. 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.

Less

Book Details

File size9.38x6.28x1.13inches
Print pages360
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
Publication date March 1, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780820327051
autor-image
Paul Morley
Author
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 Mu...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Buy CAD 37.95
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 29.95
BOOKSAMILLION.COM In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy USD 26.95
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy CAD 37.95
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 29.95
BOOKSAMILLION.COMIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy USD 26.95
Available Discount
No Discount available

Related Books

View All
FREE
Entwurf einer neuen Aesthetik der Tonkunst (German Edition)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks With Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences With Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, ... Interpretation, Style and Expressi
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Edward MacDowell: A Study
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Music Notation & Terminology
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Music: An Art and a Language (Classic Reprint)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Critical and Historical Essays; Lectures Delivered at Columbia University
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Cardinal Newman as a Musician
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865 Volume 2 (French Edition)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Observations on the Florid Song, Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
How to Sing Meine Gesangskunst
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Indian Story and Song From North America
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Old Fogy; His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Life of Chopin (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Musical Memories (Classic Reprint)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Gedenkrede Auf Wolfgang Amade Mozart
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Famous Violinists of To-Day and Yesterday
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Music Talks With Children
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Musicians of To-Day
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, With Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers..
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Music and Some Highly Musical People
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Lessons in Music Form: A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Essentials in Conducting
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS