An interesting comment left in response to my blog entry yesterday concerning popular musicians who have appeared in comic books indicated t...

Moments after posting my entry on Jack Kirby and Paul McCartney this morning, my friend Dion Cautrell sent me an email with a link to today’...

Early last month I wrote about the connection between comics and popular music, observing that it’s unusual to see a reference to comics in...

The Criterion Collection newsletter I received this afternoon contained the startling piece of information that François Truffaut’s The 400...

My previous post on the role of stuttering in music reminded me of Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and his “primitive” sonata (sound poe...

One of the reasons The Who’s “My Generation” is so memorable is, of course, because of Roger Daltrey’s distinctive delivery—his stuttering: ...

Yesterday I discussed the way white male rockers have appropriated codes of black masculinity to define their identities. In the study I men...

Although the subject of his book, Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture , is the racial appropriation of black culture i...

There is a long tradition in the Western world of likening the effects of alcohol to the ecstatic frenzy of divine possession. Socrates like...

According to this article from today’s L. A. Times , there’s been a “mini-boom” of neighborhood record stores in the Los Angeles area. Sale...

Etymologically, the word hunger derives from the Old English hungor , akin to the Old High German hungar , and is related to the Lithuanian...

“Come on baby, I’m tired of talking,” Elvis sings in “A Little Less Conversation” (in Live A Little, Love A Little ), telling his baby he wa...