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Michael E. RossAbout Michael E. Ross Michael E. Ross writes frequently on the arts, race matters, politics and American culture. He blogs on various topics at Culchavox. American Bandwidth, a book of essays and blog posts spanning the 2004 presidential election and the dawn of the Obama administration, was published by Authorhouse in October 2008. Features
Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink FloydLike any sound biographer, Blake is the fly on the wall — but one careful not to breathe the smoke in the air. What could have been Pink Floyd hagiography has the weight and distance of clear-headed scholarship, charitable but candid. [24 April 2008] Electric LitigationlandThe lucrative marketing of Jimi Hendrix's image has spawned a series of lawsuits and possibly a reality show. [10 May 2007] Cavemen R UsGEICO's recent ad campaign offers yet another example of the ongoing search for cultural groups we can mock in public. [1 February 2007] Reviews
By the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution of 1969Pollock sees Woodstock as an index to where the culture had already been going, and where, given enormous social, political and economic forces at work in America, it was already destined to go. [22 September 2009] 
Homemade Hollywood by Clive YoungWith the advent of the hand-held camera, a maverick cultural archetype was born: the brash, charming romantic taking advantage of popular fascination with the movies. [15 April 2009] 
Pop Surf Culture by Brian Chidester & Domenic PrioreMore than a catalog of beach-blanket movies or a survey of surf music, this book connects the historical dots between domestic US surf culture, the economic culture that made it marketable, and the foreign cultures that made it possible in the first place. [9 March 2009] 
I Hate New Music by Dave ThompsonThis work is offered as a kind of spiritual call to arms, a bid to reclaim rock music from the corporate takeover that's made the rock genre a shadow of its former swaggering self. [27 January 2009] 
Savage Barbecue by Andrew WarnesWarnes nimbly equates barbecue with those other indelible, necessary American pariahs: jazz and the blues — each not fully understood or appreciated but thoroughly recognized. [25 August 2008] 
Lonely Avenue by Alex HalberstadtThe songs of Doc Pomus have become an indispensable part of the American songbook, largely without our even knowing it. [13 April 2007] BlogsChannel Surfing: Michael Jackson, King of Pain [28 September 2009] |
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