Clinton Heylin

Clinton Heylin writes music history with an emphasis on recordings, songwriting, and the communities that form around popular music. Bootleg traces the unofficial recording trade and its changing relationship with copyright, collectors, and new technology. From the Velvets to the Voidoids reconstructs the rise of American punk through interviews and close attention to bands including Television, Blondie, the Ramones, and the Stooges. Revolution in the Air turns to Bob Dylan, following the development of his songs from 1957 to 1973. Heylin's wider bibliography includes Dylan biography, studio-session research, and studies of performers such as Van Morrison. Together, these books show a historian interested both in how music is made and in how listeners preserve, circulate, and reinterpret it.