When considering his main subjects, author Matthew Crowley emphasizes that there are many different ways to live a certain working-class masculinity, as there never was just one single “traditional” experience or one simple, unified path that would lead to such an experience for every English male working-class person in the mid-20th century. In his study […]
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Month: October 2020
London Life. The Magazine of the Swinging Sixties by Simon Wells (ed.) (2020)
A so far unparalleled team of talented artists, publishing pros and design specialists in their respective fields, like Peter Akhurst, Jean Shrimpton, David Hockney, and regular contributors such as Joe Meek, Eric Burdon, and Marc Bolan for a short while were all connected to England’s probably most advanced magazine of the 1960s, London Life. It […]
Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen Since 1971. A History and Discography by Derrick Bang (2020)
In the second volume of his extensive study of crime and spy movie jazz, author Bang devotes his archive and knowledge to the years 1971 to 2019. His strategy” of presenting these scores changes a bit in the present volume, as even though in the early 1970s movies were still shown in movie theaters almost […]