Volume 1, Issue 2 – Oct 2017
Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music
Issue 1 Vol. 2, October 2017
A song can be about anything
About peace or war, or the sins of industry
Or the discontents of fame, or of obscurity
Or how we first met, on the warmest day
And how I hadn’t planned to love someone until you came
Or how we survived on happiness and sleeping on the floor
Or how you used to love me but you don’t even know me anymore
– Dan Wilson, ‘A Song Can Be About Anything’ from Love Without Fear
CONTENTS
Editorial – Simon Barber (Birmingham City University)
Dropping Pebbles – Brian David Stevens
Mimesis (1, 2 & 3) – Tom Pierard (The Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand)
About About: A Songwriter’s perspective – Tom Wilson (Royal Holloway College, UK)
Aotearoa: Picturing the lyrics of the land – Katie Rochow (Wellington University, New Zealand)
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