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Portico signs sounds of Britain

17.07.08

Anova imprint Portico has signed an as-yet-untitled book that retraces a musical journey around the UK first made at the turn of the 20th century.

The book, which will be published in paperback next summer and is being written by music writer Will Hodgkinson, reconstructs the original trip made by Cecil Sharp in 1903 to capture the various "sounds of Britain".

Portico publisher Tom Bromley, who secured British Commonwealth rights from Simon Benham at Mayer Benham, said the new book would track how music—and Britain—has changed over the past 100 years.

"It will be a kind of musical Notes from a Small Island," Bromley said. "He will be going to big cities like Birmingham for bangra, Sheffield for The Verve and Pulp, and smaller rural areas as well."

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