Everything We Do is Music (Main)
How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

By (author) Elizabeth Alker

ISBN13: 9780571370177

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Published: 28/08/2025

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The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows', from Stockhausen to Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' and from Bruckner to Sonic Youth via Glenn Branca. In Everything We Do is Music, Elizabeth Alker highlights the innovators of classical music and their fans and collaborators in pop who challenged the notion that such musical worlds were mutually exclusive. Alker shines a light on the rich tapestry that exists between their borders through exclusive interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Nils Frahm, The Blessed Madonna, Jonny Greenwood, Soweto Kinch and Jean-Michel Jarre among others.
  • Music
  • 20th century & contemporary classical music
  • General (US: Trade)
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