Music and Nostalgia: A Review of Mystery Pill by Kevin Davis
It’s been ten years since I graduated High School. I’m in my late-twenties, and I’ve spent too much time looking back on the past and longing for a better future. For me, that means thinking about that...
View ArticleInterview with Joanna Swafford of Augmented Notes
I became aware of the up-and-coming scholar Joanna Swafford (@annieswafford) via a tweet about her website, Songs of the Victorians. I have always loved the music of Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and so...
View ArticleReview: John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page by Drew Massey
John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page by Drew Massey, 2013 — University of Rochester Press, 238 pages. Buy it from Rochester UP or Amazon. “Sheet Music” (Photo credit: M. Kasahara,...
View ArticleInterview with Aram Sinnreich, Author of “The Piracy Crusade”
Let’s face it — very few of us really understand what is at stake for average users of the Internet in the piracy wars. Our eyes glaze over when we hear about international treaties and copyright law....
View ArticleInterview with Devon Powers, Author of “Writing the Record”
The story of how literary genres are born and gain legitimacy fascinates those of us with an interest in cultural matters. How does something like rock criticism come to be seen as a mainstream form of...
View ArticleReview: Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print by Kate...
Discussed in this review: Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print by Kate van Orden, University of California Press, 2013, 256 pages – buy at Amazon or UC Press. Read any good...
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