According to John Tobler’s This Day In Rock (1993), it was on this day in 1965 that guitarist Eric Clapton left The Yardbirds, soon after t...

The BBC has reported Pink Floyd has initiated legal action against its record label EMI “over payment of online royalties and the marketing...

Popular music remained, of course, the standard material of radio broadcast during the Second World War. The crucial difference, however, wa...

During the Second World War, the war publicity machine widely trumpeted the names of Allied military commanders. In its putative morale-buil...

Although a fragile form of interracial dialogue had been established within the pre-war swing subculture, after the end of the Second World ...

Some time ago, I wrote about the phenomenon of the one-hit wonder , a designation used within the music industry to refer to a musician or b...

In Friedrich A. Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter war occupies a central place, serving as a crucial factor in media transformation. K...

By 1940, both America and the rest of the world recognized swing music as America’s “most distinctive contribution” to world musical culture...

An oft-repeated tale in the annals of modern jazz has it that bebop was born at Minton’s Playhouse in New York City in 1940, where the house...

In my last entry I wrote about Casablanca (1942) as an example of wartime propaganda, about how the film enacted the ideological need to va...

In my blog entry yesterday, I wrote about the effect of World War II on jazz music, and how it rendered the modernist values jazz had come t...

The effect of World War II on jazz music was to render the modernist values jazz had come to represent in the 1920s and 30s—individualism an...