A team on the way to global history
This photograph, taken during a 2017 concert by The Rolling Stones in Lucca, highlights the visual and technological dimensions of contemporary mass entertainment. Unlike traditional live performances centered primarily on direct musical interaction, the...
In 1989, Roberto Casalini and Paolo Corticelli published Rock. 500 album da collezione, an encyclopaedic guide intended to identify the artists and records that had shaped the history of rock music. The amount of...
In 1978, during their concerts at Tokyo’s Nakano Sun Plaza, the Scorpions interrupted their sequence of hard-rock songs to perform a melody that much of the Japanese audience had known since childhood. Klaus Meine...
Historians have long examined how ideas travel. Books, newspapers, political organizations, migration, diplomacy, and trade have all been recognized as channels through which beliefs, values, and ideologies cross borders. Music, however, has received comparatively...
Some songs travel because they carry a political message. Others survive because they contain a metaphor powerful enough to be detached from its original context and reinterpreted elsewhere. Waltzing Matilda belongs to this second...
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