SIMON WARNER is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who teaches at the University of Leeds, where he leads the BA in Popular Music Studies. A rock reviewer with The Guardian from 1992-95, he now writes regularly for the webzine Pop Matters, including the 'Anglo Visions' column, and also makes frequent contributions to BBC radio and online. He published Rockspeak: The Language of Rock and Pop in 1996 and his next title, Popular Music for Beginners, is due to appear through Writers and Readers. He will also contribute a chapter on the ways in which Woodstock was reported to the forthcoming collection Remembering Woodstock (Ashgate, 2004). He has, in addition, penned a number of articles for Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1990 (Schirmer, 2004). His interests focus on rock journalism - his reviews and interviews can be seen at various websites including Rock's Backpages, Music Journalist and Rock Critics - and the associations between popular music and literature. In summer 2003 he launches Chapter&Verse, a new web journal which considers that cultural intersection between rock and jazz, country and reggae, rap and soul and the novel and poetry, criticism and journalism. A volume on the relationship between the Beat Generation writers and rock culture, Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Beats and Rock from Kerouac and Ginsberg to Dylan and Cobain, has just been commissioned by Continuum of New York.

Books

Rockspeak: The Language of Rock and Pop (Blandford, 1996)

Websites