A few months ago I wrote a blog dealing with adjectival criticism and music, complaining that many popular music writers—like the AMG sort,...

According to ElvisMatters , the Belgian website dedicated to all things Elvis, MusicStack has tried to put together a list of the ten most ...

The mass media is fond of “sound bites,” utterances that, putatively, compress a great deal of information within a few words or a short phr...

Elvis Presley died 32 years ago yesterday (August 16). Preoccupied as it was with selling Woodstock this past weekend, the mass media failed...

It should be rather obvious that this weekend’s 40th anniversary of Woodstock is producing a torrent of recollections about the event, on th...

The French film critic André Bazin was able to find a moment of redeeming value in an otherwise forgettable movie. For him, a mediocre film ...

Like any avant-garde movement, rock ‘n’ roll became “popular” because it found a glamorous figure that attracted the interest and attention ...

There was a painting for sale on eBay a few days ago depicting Elvis, dressed in a white, rhinestone-studded jumpsuit, poised as if he were ...

Since we’re in the dog days, I thought I’d reflect on my blog these days. In an earlier post, in January of this year, I said I anticipated ...

According to Thomas Doherty, in his book Teenagers and Teenpics , it was the use of “Rock Around the Clock” over the opening credits of Blac...

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein , Victor Frankenstein’s creation—the “monster”—eventually sees his reflection in the water, and is shoc...

Cadillac Records (2008) probably should have been a TV mini-series, which would have allowed the filmmakers to sort out what is now essenti...