Jodie Taylor (Griffith): Scenes and Sexualities: Queerly Reframing the Music Scenes Perspective. From PopMatters, why is prog rock so inadequate, simplistic, reductive, portentous and perfect? Sean Murphy wonders; and sometimes, no matter how detrimental to well-being, we indulge in things we know are very wrong — welcome to hair metal. Micah Salkind reviews From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity by Miles White. From The Hairpin, Anne Helen Petersen and Simone Eastman on Tracy Chapman, the first in a series on Lilith Fair artists and their evocative all-consuming everlasting meaning to our adult selves. David O'Neill reviews Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group: A How-To Guide by Ian Svenonius. Clemency Burton-Hill on Gustavo Dudamel’s next mountain: What should classical music's young meteor do with the rest of his life? Take Ten: Garry Steckles on the greatest reggae singers of all time.
