Carys Wyn Jones The Rock Canon: Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) Review by Maria Hanáček The ongoing debate over the concept of a Western canon keeps various disciplines occupied and popular music studies certainly are no exemption. This academic debate is not the main frame of reference of this [...]

[Read more →]

Olivier Julien (ed.) Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008) ISBN: 978-0-7546-6708-7 (Paperback) ISBN: 978-0-7546-6249-5 (Hardback) Review by Alison Notkin The Beatles are a popular band. During their reign as the “Fab Four” in the 1960s they were a popular band, and thirty-eight years after their [...]

[Read more →]