Tim Riley (music critic)
Tim Riley (born 1960)[1] 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.com and Salon.com. He was trained as a classical pianist[2] at Oberlin College[4] and Eastman School of Music.[5]
Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston.[6] Brown University sponsored Riley as Critic-In Residence in 2008,[6] and his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), 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,[7] PBS NewsHour,[8] CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel.
Riley gave a keynote address at Beatles 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyväskylä, Finland.[5] Since then, he has given lectures on censorship in the arts and rock history.[6] His current projects include the music metaportal Riley Rock Index,[9] and a biography of John Lennon (Hyperion, 2011),[10][11] which was included in Kirkus Review's list of the Best Nonfiction of 2011.[12]
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
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External links
- Pages with login required references or sources
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Living people
- 1960 births
- Writers from Boulder, Colorado
- People from Concord, Massachusetts
- American music critics
- American music historians
- American biographers
- Oberlin College alumni
- Eastman School of Music alumni
- Emerson College faculty
