Bob McParland

An Open Book, by Bob McParland, will feature actress Karen Elliott of the Broadway cast of Les Miserables. The play will be staged at the Little Theatre, Montrose Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey, with other one acts, beginning at…

"Yesterday: the Beatles, Narrative and Memory" - Essay in Resounding Pasts (CSP, 2010)

The Beatles, possibly the most popular and influential music act of the past century, wrote and sounded a cultural moment. From 1963 to 1970, the years of…

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (ed. Charlotte Pence, U. of Mississippi Press, 2012)is a breakthrough book in the study of song lyrics and poetry. Alongside reflections on the work of Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Stipe, Leonard Cohen, Bob…

Caught By a Spell: Iron Maiden’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- An Essay on the Band's Adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." (Published 2009)  

The postmodern is sometimes said to flicker ephemerally, sliding us over…

Music in the Post-9/11 World Ed. Jonathan Ritter and J. Martin Daughtry New York” Routledge, 2007.

Sound travels at 770 miles per hour. On the bright morning of September 11, 2001, when tragedy struck lower Manhattan and Washington, D.C., sounds…

Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul has been published. The book is filled with insights into Springsteen's music and his cultural impact. Previously, I have written on Springsteen's first albums: Greetings from Asbury Park, the Wild, the Innocent and the…