Scott Timberg

Scott Timberg , a former arts reporter for the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times , wrote on music and culture and was a contributor to Salon , the New York Times , and Vox . He was an award-winning journalist, a blogger on West Coast culture, and an adjunct writing professor. His previous book, Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class , was published in 2015 by Yale University Press. Richard Brody of the New Yorker called Culture Crash "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature...See more

Scott Timberg , a former arts reporter for the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times , wrote on music and culture and was a contributor to Salon , the New York Times , and Vox . He was an award-winning journalist, a blogger on West Coast culture, and an adjunct writing professor. His previous book, Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class , was published in 2015 by Yale University Press. Richard Brody of the New Yorker called Culture Crash "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life," and Ben Downing, writing in the Wall Street Journal , said, "Mr. Timberg succeeds in assembling a large, coherent, and troubling mosaic ... weaving all manner of information and opinion into a fluent narrative of cultural decline." Timberg died by his own hand on December 10, 2019, in Pasadena, California. He was fifty years old. Ted Gioia is a music historian and the author of eleven books, including Music: A Subversive History and How to Listen to Jazz . His three books on the social history of music-- Work Songs, Healing Songs , and Love Songs --have each been honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Gioia's wide-ranging activities as a critic, scholar, performer, and educator have established him as a leading global guide to music past, present, and future. See less