Stories by tintinnabula

The Man Who Forgot Everything (2013)

How Buildings Sound

In Praise of Blue Notes: What Makes Music Sad?

Why Musicians Need Philosophy

Sleazier sounds: electric guitar solos are descended from saxophone solos

Syd Barrett: the genius who almost was (1973)

Fireman Shostakovich

Seeking Jagger’s Muse

Seventeenth-Century Drinking Songs (2013)

The Piha Stays in the Picture

Sugarfoot Stomp

On ‘White Christmas,’ the Original Christmas Hit

Prayers for Little Richard

Why You Don’t Sell the One Copy of Your Album for $2M

English and Its Undeserved Good Luck

DIY vinyl records from the Soviet “Stilyagi” scene of the 1940s, 50s and 60s

Spoiler Alerts: Three Books on Trash

Frank Sinatra and the Scholarly but Scandalous Autobiography

Cinematic obscenity in America: A hundred years of over-baring censors

Why is English so weirdly different from other language?

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