Simon A. Morrison is a writer, academic, and Programme Leader for Music Journalism degree at the University of Chester.

Following a career as a music journalist, his research interest continues to be the intersection of words and music. That research has involved contributions to books such as DJ Culture in the Mix and Kerouac on Record and journals including Popular Music. He has also published Dancefloor-Driven Literature: The Rave Scene in Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020); co-edited the Routledge Handbook to Pink Floyd (Routledge, 2022) and 2025 will see the publication by Reaktion of his co-authored Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music, from WWII to the Millennium. He has been cited 37 times, according to Google Scholar.

Publishing

Academic Books

Morrison, S. A., & Milestone, K. Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Global Dance Cultures (London: Reaktion, 2025)
Morrison, S. A. & Hart, C., eds. The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd (Routledge, 2022)
Morrison, S. A., Dancefloor-Driven Literature: The Rave Scene in Fiction (New York, Bloomsbury, 2020)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
_____ ‘"Surely people who go clubbing don’t read”: Dispatches From The Dancefloor and Clubland in Print”’ in IASPM Journal, ed. C. Jacke, M. James & Ed Montano, 4.2, 2014
_____ ‘“Clubs aren’t like that” Discos, Deviance and Diegetics in Club Culture Cinema’, Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 4.2 (2012), 48–66

Book Chapters
Morrison, S. A., ‘Tramps Like Them: Jack and Bruce and the Myth of the American Road’, in Simon Warner and Jim Sampas eds., Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018)
_____ ‘DJ-Driven Literature: A Linguistic Remix’, in Bernardo Alexander Attias, Anna Gavanas and Hillegonda C. Rietveld eds., DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). pp. 219-314

He has presented this research at conferences in the UK, Portugal, Holland, Germany and Australia:

Psychogeography, Hauntology and Cultural Mediations of Ibiza
XX Biennial IASPM Conference, Canberra, Australia, June 2019

The dancefloor on page and screen: Cultural re/presentations of the club scene in literature and film
IASPM Bi-Annual International Conference: Kassel, Germany, June 2017

Doctors of Dance
ADE conference: Amsterdam, October 2014

The Balearic Beat: How the island of Ibiza became metronome to the global dancefloor
IASPM conference: University of Salford, September 2012

Horizontal dancefloors and vertical screens: Club culture in the cinema and the diegesis of the dancefloor
Avanca conference: Portugal, July 2012

Disco_mbobulation – (Mis)reading the dancefloor through the medium of cinema
SPARC conference: Salford, June 2011

His current research interests still lie principally in the intersection of words and music, specifically focussing on Popular Music; Musico-Literary Intermediality; Electronic Dance Music Culture; Literature and Cultural Studies / Subcultures / Countercultures.

He has peer reviewed both book proposals for the likes of Bloomsbury and articles for academic journals such as The Journal of Cultural Sociology.