Raymond Moore's Uncertain Places

June 28, 2022

My new article about the photographer Raymond Moore, titled ‘Raymond Moore’s Uncertain Places’, has just been published in the journal Photographies, Vol. 15, No.2. To read the abstract and find out more about how to access the article in PDF or EPUB formats …

To the Sea

October 19, 2019

A new article has been published on the A66 through Cumbria at Places journal. As I write somewhere in the article, ‘to drive the A66 is to pass between worlds, from the apparently eternal mountains to the dynamic industrial coast — from the sublime to the subliminal’ …

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

‘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

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