Issue 1 Preview #5: Andy Ingamells – Locational Aesthetics: Squashing
I can’t write a good opening sentence. I’m not a writer. I write music instead. ‘Locational Aesthetics: Squashing’ is a …
Issue 1 Preview #4: Dave Kane – Bob Dylan: Nobility, Lyrics and Ghosts
I can still remember it clearly: my brother’s red 1960s Garrard record player, with a unique smell that only electrical …
Issue 1 Preview #3: Megan Sormus – The Savage Twisting of Vowels
This piece examines the combination of words and music and the visceral effect and tangible quality of language itself. In …
Issue 1 Preview #2: Alexander Hinksman – The Mastering Engineer: Manipulator of Feeling and Time
Other contributors have responded to Mary Oliver’s prompt with valuable considerations of the roles phonetics and their so- …
Issue 1 Preview #1: Dan Briston – In Defiance of Any Sense of Normalcy
In Defiance of Any Sense of Normalcy is a long-term photographic and ethnographic project that focuses on the Northern Soul …
Volume 1 Issue 1 Front Cover!
The first issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …
Welcome to the Riffs website
This is the online home of Riffs – a new Popular Music Studies Journal, created by post-graduate researchers in the …