Oxford-educated, Gales listed author.
I am pleased to announce my new book on a unique music icon for Equinox Press, Elvis: Roots, Image, Comeback, Phenomenon (2020)…Elvis Presley remains the single most important figure in twentieth century popular music. To many commentators, however, he has Continue Reading …
I am pleased to announce a ground-breaking edited volume from Bloomsbury, co-edited with Dr Beate Peter… Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of Continue Reading …
Ten years in the making, Dr Rosemary Lucy Hill’s book Gender, Metal and the Media (Palgrave, 2016) draws on extensive fieldwork with female fans to illuminate their gendered experience of the genre. The book insightfully pinpoints a series of places Continue Reading …
On Friday, along with a handful of other people, I piled into my local art cinema to watch Gaspar Noé’s new, darkly absorbing club-related movie, Climax. The plot revolves around a talented, multi-cultural group of dancers who rehearse in an abandoned French Continue Reading …
Nigel Patterson works for the Australian government and has been a dedicated Elvis fan since 1969. His participation in organized fan club activity in the Australian Capital Territory from the mid-1980s onwards led him to start the Elvis Information Network Continue Reading …
Nigel Patterson works for the Australian government and has been a dedicated Elvis fan since 1969. His participation in organized fan club activity in the Australian Capital Territory from the mid-1980s onwards led him to start the Elvis Information Network Continue Reading …
Nigel Patterson works for the Australian government and has been a dedicated Elvis fan since 1969. His participation in organized fan club activity in the Australian Capital Territory from the mid-1980s onwards led him to start the Elvis Information Network Continue Reading …
Fred Vermorel first met Malcolm McLaren in 1963 when they were students at Harrow Art School. The two shared an interest in chaos, scandal and, later, Situationism: ideas which steered the development of the Sex Pistols and punk. This is Continue Reading …
Fred Vermorel first met Malcolm McLaren in 1963 when they were students at Harrow Art School. The two shared an interest in chaos, scandal and, later, Situationism: ideas which steered the development of the Sex Pistols and punk. A self-proclaimed Continue Reading …
Fred Vermorel first met Malcolm McLaren in 1963 when they were students at Harrow Art School. The two shared an interest in chaos, scandal and, later, Situationism: ideas which steered the development of the Sex Pistols and punk. This is Continue Reading …