Per Nilsen
About
Per Nilsen is a Swedish professor and author. He grew up in Täby, north of Stockholm. Nilsen graduated in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1985. He has written substantially within the field of Implementation science as an academic and has written several music biographies, including several books focusing on David Bowie, Prince and Iggy Pop and The Stooges. In 1991, Nilsen together with Lars Einarsson created Uptown, a professionally designed international journal devoted to exploring Prince’s music. They published Uptown for 12 years. The journal was praised for its insightful analysis and independence. However, in 1999 Prince and his management filed a suit against the journal, seeking to halt its publication since they could not control the content. Enlisting the help of a lawyer, the journal successfully defended the case and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped.
