In Douglas Sirk’s grand melodrama Written on the Wind (1956), the river represents a sort of lost innocence, a past happiness (however ill...

When I heard the wholly unexpected news yesterday of Alex Chilton’s death at age 59, I immediately thought of a line from F. Scott Fitzgeral...

Finally having begun reading the essays in Kevin M. Flanagan’s important edition, Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England’s Last Mannerist (Scarecr...

The sequence in Jailhouse Rock (1957) showing a dirty, sweaty Elvis Presley (playing Vince Everett) in the prison coal yard is the closest ...

According to John Tobler’s This Day In Rock (1993), it was on this day in 1965 that guitarist Eric Clapton left The Yardbirds, soon after t...

The BBC has reported Pink Floyd has initiated legal action against its record label EMI “over payment of online royalties and the marketing...

Popular music remained, of course, the standard material of radio broadcast during the Second World War. The crucial difference, however, wa...

During the Second World War, the war publicity machine widely trumpeted the names of Allied military commanders. In its putative morale-buil...

Although a fragile form of interracial dialogue had been established within the pre-war swing subculture, after the end of the Second World ...

Some time ago, I wrote about the phenomenon of the one-hit wonder , a designation used within the music industry to refer to a musician or b...

In Friedrich A. Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter war occupies a central place, serving as a crucial factor in media transformation. K...

By 1940, both America and the rest of the world recognized swing music as America’s “most distinctive contribution” to world musical culture...