Volume 1, Issue 1 – Feb. 2017

Volume 1, Issue 1 – Feb. 2017

RIFFS Popular Music Journal (Front Cover)

Full Issue

Riffs (Final Design inc. DOI)

Editorial – Nicholas Gebhardt (Birmingham City University)

In Defiance of Any Sense of Normalcy – Dan Briston (University of South Wales, MA)

The Mastering Engineer: Manipulator of Feeling and Time – Alexander Hinksman (Birmingham City University, PhD)

The Savage Twisting Of Vowels – Megan Sormus (Northumbria University, PhD)

Bob Dylan: Nobility, Lyrics and Ghosts – Dave Kane (Birmingham City University – PhD)

How I Finally Learnt to Love…Grindcore! And in Doing so Reclaimed a Very Close Friend – Matt Grimes (Birmingham City University, PhD)

Read Aloud at 4am – Ed McKeon (Birmingham City University, PhD)

Locational Aesthetics: Squashing – Andy Ingamells (Birmingham Conservatoire, PhD)

The Felt Quality of Sound – Bethany Kane and Sarah Raine (Birmingham City University, MA/PhD)