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Rock-and-Roll

Book Review: Rock and Roll Fantasy — Getting the Balance Right

On many levels, Hold Me Down is terrific. Its power lies in the vitality of Clea Simon’s prose and her insider savvy.

By: David Daniel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Clea Simon, David Daniel, Hold Me Down, Rock-and-Roll

Book Review: “Just Around Midnight” — A Revelatory Look at Race and 1960s Rock and Roll

Why did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight, race, Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, Rock-and-Roll

Film Review: “Ricki and the Flash” — A Damp Squib

Ricki and the Flash is a film that is bad enough to hurt a lot of reputations.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Diablo Cody, Jonathan Demme, Meryl Streep, Rick Springfield, Ricki and the Flash, Rock-and-Roll

Book Interview: “Season of the Witch” — Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Occult Imagination

“To say that the occult ‘saved’ it is really to say that the spiritual agitation is at the heart of what was able to bring rock ‘n’ roll to its most interesting places.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: devil worship, occult, Peter Bebergal, Rock-and-Roll, Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

Highlife Lowdown

Two excellent books, one by Boston rocker Jen Trynin, plumb the insides of the worlds of jazz and rock ‘n’ roll.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Music Tagged: Milo Miles, Music, Rock-and-Roll, Trynin

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