A Popular Music Studies Journal
“The 1980s: A time I will never be able to remember, yet, at the same time, will always remain incapable of forgetting, as it keeps capturing …
Introducing Riffs: Surge in Spring II special zine issue This blog post is about some recent activity from BCMCR (Birmingham …
“Yodeling and Meaning in American Music” – Timothy E. Wise University Press of Mississippi, 2016 Reviewed for Riffs by Sebastian Svegaard, …
The Beatles Ian Inglis Equinox Publishing, 2017 Reviewed for Riffs by David Kane, Birmingham City University It has become something …
Call for Proposals The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music invite 300 word / one page of …
Issue 2 of Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music is here! The theme for this issue is Songwriting, and contributors …
Music-making in the city constitutes and is constituted by a plurality of urban rhythms including the movement of people between …
In the mid-1990s, I was the London Project Co-ordinator for Drake Music, a charity pioneering the use of technology to …
Is it possible to detect the meaning of a song from its sound? And what if the song is written …
Dan Wilson’s lyrics draw attention to the creative and artistic diverse stream of meanings and stories associated with popular music …