The Acoustic City

June 15, 2014

My essay in Matthew Gandy and B.J. Nilsen’s fascinating new volume, The Acoustic City, has recently been published.

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Possible Worlds is the website of John Scanlan, a cultural historian and analyst. More.

Forthcoming, Feb/March 2025.

‘The road has long been one of the most evocative cultural motifs in popular music. In Easy Riders, Rolling Stones John Scanlan provides a fascinating account of the emerging relationship between music and movement, from its origins in the pre-war Mississippi Delta to its deafening denouement in the rock shows of the 1970s.’ — Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge‘A wonderfully evocative musical odyssey.’ — The GuardianEditions: Reaktion (UK), 2015 University of Chicago Press (US), 2015 — ‘The road has long been one of the most evocative cultural motifs in popular music. In Easy Riders, Rolling Stones John Scanlan provides a fascinating account of the emerging relationship between music and movement, from its origins in the pre-war Mississippi Delta to its deafening denouement in the rock shows of the 1970s.’ — Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge
‘A wonderfully evocative musical odyssey.’ — The Guardian
Editions:
Reaktion (UK), 2015
University of Chicago Press (US), 2015

Film

Related to ‘Easy Riders, Rolling Stones’: ’Road Music’, a film by Alex Harvey (in production) — Related to ‘Easy Riders, Rolling Stones’:
’Road Music’, a film by Alex Harvey (in production)