This paper was presented at the Music and the Middlebrow International Conference, University of Notre Dame, London, 22-24 June 2017. The paper examines songs from the 1970s that fall under a "middle-of-the-road" umbrella and explores the defining musical characteristics of this aesthetic. The presentation slides are attached
Commentators are unanimous about the important role of the UK in the 1970s in the history of popular...
The upsurge of academic interest in the genre known as progressive rock has taken much for granted. ...
The impact on British popular music of the ‘events of 1968’ took essentially two forms. The first wa...
This paper was presented at the Music and the Middlebrow International Conference, University of Not...
‘A Kind of Magic’ is a musicological study of the British band Queen’s output between 1973 and 1980....
Each decade is connected to specific music genres that are remembered years later. Artists who impri...
There has been a marked resurgence of academic, media and commercial interest in progressive rock mu...
Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Biennial Int...
The study of musical styles, and their conventions and changes, is often focused simply on the styl...
This paper explores the different types of time one experiences when listening to progressive rock, ...
The Nature’s Best compilation albums (2002, 2003) comprise a canon of New Zealand popular music. Vot...
Paper presented at the Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 13-...
Conference paper given at the joint New Zealand Musicological Society and Musicological Society of A...
Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (1975) has been the subject of many academic analyses; the song has not ...
The Beach Boys’ 2012 album That’s Why God Made the Radio is typically nostalgic, filled with seeming...
Commentators are unanimous about the important role of the UK in the 1970s in the history of popular...
The upsurge of academic interest in the genre known as progressive rock has taken much for granted. ...
The impact on British popular music of the ‘events of 1968’ took essentially two forms. The first wa...
This paper was presented at the Music and the Middlebrow International Conference, University of Not...
‘A Kind of Magic’ is a musicological study of the British band Queen’s output between 1973 and 1980....
Each decade is connected to specific music genres that are remembered years later. Artists who impri...
There has been a marked resurgence of academic, media and commercial interest in progressive rock mu...
Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Biennial Int...
The study of musical styles, and their conventions and changes, is often focused simply on the styl...
This paper explores the different types of time one experiences when listening to progressive rock, ...
The Nature’s Best compilation albums (2002, 2003) comprise a canon of New Zealand popular music. Vot...
Paper presented at the Royal Musicological Association Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 13-...
Conference paper given at the joint New Zealand Musicological Society and Musicological Society of A...
Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (1975) has been the subject of many academic analyses; the song has not ...
The Beach Boys’ 2012 album That’s Why God Made the Radio is typically nostalgic, filled with seeming...
Commentators are unanimous about the important role of the UK in the 1970s in the history of popular...
The upsurge of academic interest in the genre known as progressive rock has taken much for granted. ...
The impact on British popular music of the ‘events of 1968’ took essentially two forms. The first wa...