Photos • Biography • Facebook • Twitter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Riley
Born
Tim Riley

1960 (age 63–64)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Music critic
  • historian
  • biographer

Tim Riley (born 1960) [1] is a music journalist who reviews pop and classical music for NPR, [2] and has written for The New York Times, [3] truthdig, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Slate and Salon.

Career

His first book was Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), a critique of the Beatles' music, which The New York Times said brought "new insight to the act we've known for all these years". [1]

His television appearances include Morning Joe, [4] PBS NewsHour, [5] CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel.

Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. [6] Brown University sponsored Riley as its critic-in-residence in 2008. [6] Riley gave a keynote address at Beatles 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyväskylä, Finland. [7] Since then, he has given lectures on censorship in the arts and rock history. [6] His subsequent projects include the music metaportal Riley Rock Index [8] and a biography of John Lennon (Hyperion, 2011), [9] [10] which was included in Kirkus Reviews' list of the Best Nonfiction of 2011. [11]

Books

  • Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (1988), ISBN  978-0394550619
  • Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (1992), ISBN  978-0394578897
  • Madonna Illustrated (1992), ISBN  978-1562829834
  • Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America (2004), ISBN  978-0312286118
  • Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life (2011), ISBN  978-1401324520
  • What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time ( Walter Everett and Tim Riley, 2019), ISBN  978-0190949877

References

  1. ^ a b Pareles, Jon (June 19, 1988). "IN SHORT: NONFICTION". New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  2. ^ Cantrell, Cindy (November 6, 2011). "Concord author writes a John Lennon biography". Boston Globe. Retrieved September 16, 2012.( registration required)
  3. ^ Riley, Tim (December 6, 2013). "'Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1,' by Mark Lewisohn". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  4. ^ "Morning Joe". MSNBC. October 14, 2011. Archived from the original on June 27, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  5. ^ Brown, Jeffrey (September 9, 2009). "Decades Later, Beatles Hits Continue to Draw New Fans". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c "Journalism Faculty - Tim Riley". Emerson College. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  7. ^ "Alumni Notes" (PDF). Eastman Notes. Eastman School of Music. Spring–Summer 2002. p. 28. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  8. ^ "Riley Rock Index". Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  9. ^ Parker, James (October 7, 2011). "John Lennon's Primal Screams". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  10. ^ "Nonfiction Review: Lennon: the Man, the Myth, the Music--the Definitive Life". Publishers Weekly. July 11, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  11. ^ Liebtrau, Eric (ed.). "Best Nonfiction of 2011". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2012.

External links


Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tim_Riley_(music_critic)&oldid=1192760282"