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About Alex Niven
- Alex Niven (born 18 February 1984, Hexham, Northumberland, England) is an English writer, poet, editor, and former musician.Niven was a founding member of the indie band Everything Everything, with friends from Queen Elizabeth High School in Hexham, Northumberland.
- He played guitar with the band between 2007 and 2009 before leaving to study for a doctorate at St John's College, Oxford and pursue a writing career. Niven's first work of criticism, Folk Opposition, was published by Zero Books in 2011.
- The book attempted to reclaim a variety of folk culture motifs for the political left, and excoriated the "Green Tory" zeitgeist that had accompanied the ascendancy of David Cameron's Conservative Party in Britain in 2009-10.
- Writing in the journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Niki Seth-Smith described it as a "rebuttal to ...
- knee jerk reactions [about folk culture] by way of careful historicisation and incisive cultural analysis", while Joe Kennedy of The Quietus described it as "one of 2011's most incisive polemics".His second book, a study of the Oasis album Definitely Maybe, was published in Bloomsbury's 33? series in 2014.
- The Times Literary Supplement praised its "convincing modulation between a discussion of the post-Thatcher north-west England that informed Oasis's early lyrics, and the finer points of pentatonic and mixolydian melody governing Noel Gallagher's early songwriting".
- LA Review of Books reviewer Rhian E.
- Jones also judged the book a success, concluding that "Niven displays a thorough appreciation of what made Oasis good while remaining aware of their shortcomings".Formerly assistant editor at New Left Review and editor-in-chief at The Oxonian Review, Niven has also written for The Guardian, The Independent, openDemocracy, Agenda, The Cambridge Quarterly, English Literary History, Oxford Poetry, Notes and Queries, The Quietus, and a number of collective blogs in addition to his own blog The Fantastic Hope.
- His first collection of poetry, The Last Tape, was published in 2014, and his poem "The Beehive" provided the epigraph to Owen Hatherley's 2012 architecture survey A New Kind of Bleak.He is currently Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University and an editor at Repeater Books.
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