Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution Robert A

Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution Robert A

University of Kentucky UKnowledge Library Faculty and Staff ubP lications University of Kentucky Libraries 2-2004 [Review of] Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution Robert A. Aken University of Kentucky, [email protected] Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub Part of the Collection Development and Management Commons, and the Music Commons Repository Citation Aken, Robert A., "[Review of] Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution" (2004). Library Faculty and Staff Publications. 121. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub/121 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Kentucky Libraries at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Faculty and Staff ubP lications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. [Review of] Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution Notes/Citation Information Published in CHOICE, v. 41, no. 6, 41-3334. Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.cro3.org, copyright by the American Library Association. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.41-3334 This review is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub/121 Choice www.cro3.org doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.41-3334 CHOICE February 2004 vol. 41 no. 06 41-3334 ML3470 2002-74728 MARC Warner, Timothy. Pop music: technology and creativity: Trevor Horn and the digital revolution. Ashgate, 2003. 172p bibl discography index ISBN 0754631311, $84.95 In this volume in the "Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series," Warner (Univ. of Salford, UK) makes the case for the influence of technological advances on the creative process in popular music, focusing on the seminal work of producer Trevor Horn in the early 1980s. The author spends the first half of the book defining pop music as separate from rock, focusing on the recording as artifact (as opposed to composition), and exploring how changes such as digital equipment and production techniques influence the creative process. In the second half, he looks at technological creativity in seven Horn productions (including Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax"). A discography, interview of Horn, excellent bibliography, and index conclude the work. This book will be a useful companion to such works as Music, Electronic Media, and Culture, ed. by Simon Emmerson (2000), an essay collection that includes some discussion of technology and creativity in a variety of musical genres, and Steve Jones's Rock Formation (CH, Dec'92), an excellent exploration of technology and creativity across the broader rock world. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Popular music and philosophy collections serving upper division-undergraduates and above. --R. A. Aken, University of Kentucky Copyright 2004 American Library Association.

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