Patrick Amory
Patrick Amory (born 1965) is a historian and an executive in the recorded music industry.
Early life
Patrick Amory was born in New York City on July 10, 1965, to literary parents. His father, the late Hugh Amory, was noted as the most "rigorous" and "methodologically sophisticated" historian of the book in early America.[1] He attended the Commonwealth School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Academia
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Music industry
In the mid-late 80s Amory ran the small independent record label Amory Arms which released a handful of records only including the first Lemonheads 7" 'Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners' in 1989 and Deathwish 'Tailgate' 7" in 1989 (recorded in 1983) which is now a now highly collectable Boston Hardcore record.
Amory had been active in independent rock since the 1980s, including stints as Rock Director and Program Director at WHRB-FM (Harvard's radio station). In 1994 he left academia to work as general manager of Matador Records, one of the premier independent rock record labels of the 1990s. Amory together with Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi at Matador Records are credited with pursuing the preservation of artistic freedom while preserving a viable business model through "realistic success".[5] Amory has lived and worked in New York since 1994.
Works
- Amory, Patrick (1997). People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. ISBN 0 521 57151 0.
References
- ^ (2005), Bibliography and the Book Trades (quoted from front flap). (by Hugh Amory)
- ^ (March 1998), History: Review of New Books. (by Sivan, Hagith)
- ^ (Fall 2002), The Study of Elites in Late Antiquity. (Arethusa - Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2000, pp. 321-346)
- ^ The Ostrogoths From the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective. 2007. Passim. Also reviewed here.
- ^ (December 27, 2005), The Net Is a Boon for Indie Labels. (New York Times)