Laing, Dave
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Name (Latin)
Laing, Dave
Other forms of name
Laing, David William, 1947-2019
Date of birth
1947-01-09
Date of death
2019-01-07
Field of activity
Music trade
Musical criticism
Occupation
Music critics
Music journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Data converted from field 678, Jan. 15, 2019(musician)
- Davis, Sarah. The guerilla guide to the music business, 2001:CIP t.p. (Dave Laing) CIP data sheet (David William Laing; b. Jan. 9 1947)
- Guardian WWW site, viewed Jan. 15, 2019(Dave Laing; David William Laing, music writer and academic, born 9 January 1947, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; died 7 January 2019. In the early 1970s, a new kind of writing about popular music began to appear in Britain. Its instigators had been inspired to think and write about popular music as if it had things to say worth hearing, possessed cultural weight, mattered. Dave Laing, who has died aged 71, stood in the frontline of this revolutionary cadre. His examination of how punk challenged the orthodoxies of the record business reflected an abiding interest in how the industry worked, which led him to jobs in it: as press officer for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, on the trade papers Music Week and Music Business International, and producing, with Phil Hardy, a newsletter for industry insiders, Music & Copyright. Dave was initially unusual, according to his colleague and friend Simon Frith, in having "an essentially freelance research career as a non-academic who was highly respected in the academy", but in the early 80s he taught courses at the Open University and Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds (now Leeds Trinity University), and gave papers at conferences organised by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. From the 90s onwards, living in London, he was a research fellow, lecturer and examiner at the universities of Westminster and Liverpool, where he was a fellow of the Institute of Popular Music)
- His The sound of our time, 1970, c1969.