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Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City - Morley, Paul
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Has pop burnt itself out? Inspired by the video for Kylie Minogue's hit single 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', acclaimed rock journalist Paul Morley is driving with Kylie towards a virtual city built of sound and ideas in search of the answer. Their journey bridges the various paradoxes of twentieth-century culture, as they encounter a succession of celebrities and geniuses - including Madonna, Kraftwerk, Wittgenstein and the ghost of Elvis Presley - and explore the iconic and the obscure, the mechanical and the digital, ...

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Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City 2005, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820327051

Trade paperback

Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City 2004, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9780747568643

Paperback

Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City 2003, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9780747557784

Paperback