High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City is a 2005 book charting the history of popular music, by the acclaimed music journalist and cultural commentator Paul Morley. Its style is highly idiosyncratic, and it takes the form of a robotic Kylie Minogue traveling, with Morley, in a cyber-car towards a city of "sound and ideas." The starting point for this highly unusual, yet scholarly history of popular music are Morley's favourite pieces at the time of writing: Minogue's electro-pop song "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and Alvin Lucier's experimental "I am sitting in a room". From these seemingly unrelated musical compositions Morley reflects on the meanings of music in its many contradictory forms: the avant-garde and pop, the iconic and the obscure, the mechanical and the digital, the commercial and the creative, the human and the robotic.

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