Pop Music - Technology and Creativity

This text draws on the author's personal experience as a musician, producer and teacher of popular music to discuss the ways in which audio technology and musical creativity in pop music are inextricably bound together. This relationship, the book argues, is exemplified by the work of Trevor Horn.

Timothy Warner was born and raised in Fulham, London. He trained as a printer then went to art college then worked in the arts. He wrote military history on Hammersmith and Fulham, now in Hammersmith and Fulham Local History Library Archives.

One: Pop Music; 1: Characteristics of Pop Music; 2: The Production of Pop Music; Two: Technology and Creativity; 3: 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles; 4: 'Buffalo Gals' by Malcolm McLaren; 5: 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' by Yes; 6: 'Relax' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood; 7: Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise?; 8: 'Jewel', 'Duel' and 'Jewelled' by Propaganda; 9: Slave to the Rhythm by Grace Jones