Art & Individuality
The Elegy in Music, Part 2: Jazz – Mingus, Monk, Strayhorn
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Crepuscule with Nellie, Blood Count
Roman Polanski’s Tess – Analysis: Dissonance, Simulacra
Tess: Beyond realism: Hardy’s novel & Polanski’s film
Geoffrey Hill’s ‘The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz’ – Analysis
Lover & beloved in Geoffrey Hill’s poetic sequence
Top Ten Guitar Solos: An Alternative Perspective
What makes a great guitar solo? How about ‘having something to say’?
Wagner and the Sublime: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
From physical jouissance to metaphysical experience.
Wagner: Tannhäuser – Musicological Analysis & Feminist Critique
‘The Glitter of a High-Class Brothel’
Peter Perrett: The Flame of Individuality: Humanworld – Part 2
Analysis & interpretation of Humanworld – Part 2