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Arts & Literature

Nik Cohn

Who

Nik Cohn · Arts & Literature

What

British writer of a Jewish family and pioneering rock music journalist; his 1976 article inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. (Writer/critic, not a composer.)

When

1946, London, England, UK

Where

United Kingdom · United States

Biography

Nik Cohn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — British writer of a Jewish family and pioneering rock music journalist; his 1976 article inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. (Writer/critic, not a composer.)

How & why

Nik Cohn is a British writer and pioneering rock music journalist whose 1969 book Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom was among the first serious histories of pop. His 1976 New York magazine article 'Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night' inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. His father was the historian Norman Cohn, of Jewish descent, placing Nik Cohn in a Jewish family; he is a writer and critic rather than a composer.

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Contributions & Sources

British writer of a Jewish family and pioneering rock music journalist; his 1976 article inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. (Writer/critic, not a composer.)

1969

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Cohn