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Dr Simon A. Morrison

@docdisco.bsky.social

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Writer and Academic

Simon Morrison is a scholar and writer specializing in 20th-century music, particularly Russian, Soviet, and French music, with special interests in dance, cinema, aesthetics, and historically informed performance based on primary sources. .. more

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Dr Simon A. Morrison @docdisco.bsky.social · Jul 12

AI needs to up its game

Dr Simon A. Morrison @docdisco.bsky.social · Jul 1

Enjoyed my appearance on BBC Radio Merseyside today, talking about my co-authored book (with Katie Milestone) - Transatlantic Drift.

I’m on around 2 hours 24 mins in, just after ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’… what a song to try and follow.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Tony Snell - 01/07/2025 - BBC Sounds

Great music, interviews, quizzes and all the weekday talking points.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dr Simon A. Morrison @docdisco.bsky.social · Apr 30

I’m still eating Easter eggs

Dr Simon A. Morrison @docdisco.bsky.social · Apr 4

An article Katie and I penned about our new book : theconversation.com/a-brief-hist...

A brief history of dance music – from basements to beaches, dancefloors have mirrored social change

These were hot, dimly lit, crowded, smoke and sweat-filled spaces where the music ricocheted off surfaces and fed directly back into the dancing bodies.

theconversation.com

Dr Simon A. Morrison @docdisco.bsky.social · Mar 26

My review of the Jack Kerouac collection Self-Portrait has just been published in Rock & The Beat Generation.

Thank you to Simon Warner for asking me to do and to Charles Shuttleworth for agreeing to send me an actual book, for the review.

simonwarner.substack.com/p/book-revie...