Tag: music
2015, the year that was: arts and culture
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
With the New Year approaching, we highlight the top arts and culture stories from 2015.
Over the past year, there was no...
Sinatra’s films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male
Karen McNally, London Metropolitan University
Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday on December 12 is being celebrated with all the requisite fanfare: Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Sinatra:...
Sam Smith’s ambitious attempt to reshape the Bond song lands with...
Adrian Daub, Stanford University and Charles Kronengold, Stanford University
Like most James Bond fans, we couldn’t wait to hear the theme song for Spectre, the...
What does your musical taste say about your personality and lifestyle?
Adrian North, Curtin University
I’m quite used to receiving abuse concerning the content of this column, but in contrast my previous post (about why fans...
Northern soul trademark win shows music subcultures belong to fans
By Enrico Bonadio, City University London
Some good news for soul music lovers from an unlikely source: a recent trademark decision by the UK’s Intellectual...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
