Oxford-educated, Gales listed author.
Last night I saw Florence + the Machine play a sell-out show at the Academy and was not disappointed. With her ample vocal talent, Florence Welch has single-handedly made the name “Florence” cool to a new generation. Perhaps because the Continue Reading …
Magazine, fandom and the music industry (how to avoid the mistakes of an artistic genius) The end of the noughties (a decade where attention to consumer technologies overtook content)
I’ve just finished reading Helen Chase’s biography of my favourite band, Magazine. My experience as a fan began in the mid-1980s, when my younger brother introduced me to their music. It was, to say the least, an acquired taste, after Continue Reading …
Popular Music Fandom and The Public Sphere (University of Chester, 10-4-15) A Conference on Love and Rock Music (Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France, 14 to 16-4-14) Click here to see how the conference went. Popular Music and Automobile Culture: A One Continue Reading …
From a review list for the journal Popular Music, these recent offerings are mainly published by Ashgate and American university presses: Baraka, Amiri (2009) Digging The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music.UCLA Press. Bayer, Gerd ed. (2009) Heavy Metal Music Continue Reading …