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by Tim Riley
Journalist In Residence
Emerson College
NPR Critic, Author,
Speaker, Pianist


APPEARANCES:

FEAR OF FREEDOM
How the Culture Wars Curtail Speech
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, FL
March 26, 2009

CRITIC-IN-RESIDENCE at
Brown University
Three lectures:
Sgt Pepper (9/16/08)
FEVER: Rock Transforms Gender (10/30/08)
Music Criticism As Craft (12/2/08)

Society for Music Theory
November 7 & 8, 2008
Nashville, TN
Plenary Session panelist: "The Pop Music Catalog"
with Walter Everett, David Brackett

Skidmore College
November 22, 2008
40th Anniversary of the Beatles White Album
with Walter Everett, Allan Kozinn, Jonathan Gould

Bibliography (pdf)

Riley Rock Index
Music's Metaportal

FEATURE PODCAST:
RECORDING THE BEATLES
by Kehew and Ryan
Abbey Road Reunion:
Techies Tell All (mp3)
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Tim Riley (trileyATartsjournal.com) is the music commentator for NPR's HERE AND NOW, and Journalist In Residence at Emerson College in Boston.

FEVER (Picador, 2005) surveys rock's gender styles through key figures like Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Girl Groups, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend, Rosanne Cash, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, rock couples from Sonny and Cher to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and many others.

Radio Interviews:
On Point (NPR) 7/8/05
Marketplace 6/9/05
Wisconsin Public Radio 8/10/04
Here and Now (NPR) 9/13/04
On Point (NPR) 9/13/04

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