Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles was an American composer and author of the 20th century. He was also an ethnomusicologist and made important field recordings that documented Indigenous Moroccan music and oral traditions. Bowles was born in New York in 1910 to a wealthy family. He was extremely intelligent as a boy and learned to read when he was three years old. By the age of four, he had learned to write and he had completed his first poems and short stories. He later became interested in jazz, but his strict father did not allow for jazz to be played in their house. He attended a performance ...