Dave Laing (1947–2019)

Author of The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music

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About the Author

Dave Laing is an associate editor of the journal Popular Music History and an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool who has been researching and writing about popular music, its business, and its politics for more than 40 years. His books include Buddy Holly and The Sound of Our show more Time. He is a coeditor of The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World and The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music and has contributed to several collections, including Cambridge Companion to the Beatles; Global Pop, Local Language; and The Popular Music Studies Reader. TV Smith was the founder, singer, and songwriter of the Adverts, who formed in late 1976 and became one of the leading bands in the first wave of British punk rock. He continues to tour the world, bringing his epic solo show to ever-increasing audiences. show less

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Let It Rock: The New Music Review (magazine)

Works by Dave Laing

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The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (1990) — Author — 76 copies

One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985) 40 copies

The Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock (1975) 31 copies

The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business (2001) 16 copies

Buddy Holly (1971) 14 copies

The Marxist theory of art (1978) 13 copies

Buddy Holly (Icons of Pop Music) (2010) 8 copies

Buddy Holly (Rock Books) (1971) 5 copies

Beer and brewing (1977) 5 copies

The sound of our time (1969) 4 copies

Folksong. Von den Volksliedern zum Folkrock (1985) 3 copies

The Electric Muse Revisited: The Story of Folk into Rock and Beyond (2021) 3 copies

Thirty Years of the Cambridge Folk Festival (1994) 2 copies

The Encyclopedia Of Rock. Vols 1, 2 & 3. — Editor — 2 copies

Let It Rock No. 9 1 copy

Let it rock : the new music review — Editor — 1 copy

Buddy Holly, 50 photographs 1 copy

The European radio industry: Markets and players (An FT report) (1997) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Encyclopedia of Rock (1988) — Editor, some editions — 10 copies

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Legal name: Laing, David William
Birthdate: 1947-01-09
Date of death: 2019-01-07
Gender: male
Nationality: England
UK
Birthplace: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
Places of residence: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England, UK
Education: King’s College
University of Sussex
Occupations: biographer
editor
broadcaster
music writer
clerical officer
academic
Organizations: Open University
Leeds Trinity University

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One chord wonders : power and meaning in punk rock by Dave Laing

this book gave me everything i needed...from the semiotic analysis to the quick review of semiotics (cut to me glancing vacantly at the anthology/theory bookcase when Laing tells me he intends to use barthes and kristeva et. al. then to relieved me when he provides brief, lucid definitions ahead of his analysis, like Oh Dude THX).

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alison-rose | May 22, 2023 |

Guerilla Guide to the Music Business by Sarah Davis

Handbook for surviving and succeeding in today's music industry - whether a guitar band, singer or DJ it provides a guide to planning your career.
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