Riffs: Producing a ‘zine-journal in day
Introducing Riffs: Surge in Spring II special zine issue This blog post is about some recent activity from BCMCR (Birmingham …
Book Review – “Yodeling and Meaning in American Music”, Timothy E. Wise
“Yodeling and Meaning in American Music” – Timothy E. Wise University Press of Mississippi, 2016 Reviewed for Riffs by Sebastian Svegaard, …
Book Review – “The Beatles”, Ian Inglis.
The Beatles Ian Inglis Equinox Publishing, 2017 Reviewed for Riffs by David Kane, Birmingham City University It has become something …
Riffs – Volume 2 – Issue 1: CFP
Call for Proposals The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music invite 300 word / one page of …
Riffs – Volume 1, Issue 2 – October 2017
Issue 2 of Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music is here! The theme for this issue is Songwriting, and contributors …
Issue 2 – Preview #9: Katie Rochow’s Aotearoa: picturing the lyrics of the land
Music-making in the city constitutes and is constituted by a plurality of urban rhythms including the movement of people between …
Issue 2 – Preview #8: Leon Clowes’ How can you sing a song if you have no voice?
In the mid-1990s, I was the London Project Co-ordinator for Drake Music, a charity pioneering the use of technology to …
Issue 2 – Preview #7: Adriano Tedde’s Bone Machine: What the hell is Tom Waits singing about?
Is it possible to detect the meaning of a song from its sound? And what if the song is written …
Issue 2 – Preview #6: Fiamma Mozzetta’s El Tren Fantasma
Dan Wilson’s lyrics draw attention to the creative and artistic diverse stream of meanings and stories associated with popular music …
Issue 2 – Preview #5: Daniel Fardon’s SONG-PEACE-WAR-SINS-INDUSTRY-DISCONTENT-FAME-OBSCURITY
For my submission to Riffs Journal, I created a graphic music score for solo voice, using fragments from 12 different pop songs, ranging …