![]() ![]() So despite the fact that Mercy Bound, the latest from McCain, feels a little anachronistic and a little one-note, it’s a comforting, enjoyable album by a guy you find yourself rooting for. Nobody’s really making this kind of music anymore on the mainstream stage, except the Script, sort of - and Train themselves. After all, “I’ll Be” was a song that peaked at #5 on the Billboard charts compare that to 2010, when the only “rock” song to finish the year in the Top 40 was Train’s “Hey Soul Sister”, which everybody knows doesn’t count. In some ways, it’s a striking reminder of what’s happened in mainstream pop over the past decade. ![]() Over 10 years later, McCain is still recording music, and most of it sounds like a time capsule dug up from his heyday. For good measure, there’s a saxophone that pops up every once in a while for that extra cheese factor. “I’ll Be” might just be one of the truly quintessential hits of the late ’90s, in part because of the way McCain combines the big-hearted rock balladry of Aerosmith (remember, this was around the same time Aerosmith unleashed “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” on us) with tinges of country, soul, and even post-grunge in the almost Creed-like way McCain bends his vowels. All individual and student subscribers are automatically enrolled as HSS members, with all attendant benefits.In 1998, an unassuming young singer-songwriter named Edwin McCain released a jewel of a single that quickly became inescapable, especially if your parents listened to the adult contemporary stations a lot. Subscriptions to Isis are concurrent with membership in the History of Science Society. With a new Editor and editorial office in the Netherlands, the Press would like to acknowledge the following supporters: Ammodo Foundation Descartes Centre, Utrecht University Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Museum Boerhaave, Dutch National Museum for the History of Science and Medicine. An official publication of the History of Science Society, this is the oldest (and most widely circulating) English-language journal in the field. ![]() Review essays and book reviews on new publications in the field are also included. Since its inception in 1912, Isis has featured scholarly articles, research notes and commentary on the history of science, medicine, and technology, and their cultural influences. This will lead to an understanding of Darwin's “iconic” status that draws on a fuller range of human sensory experience and that also enables us to appreciate his-and his theory's-enduring power to engage the human imagination.Ĭurrent issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. It argues that the engagement with Darwin and his celebrated theory is far more creative than has been appreciated and recommends that historians of science further explore Darwin and his theory as embodied in a fuller range of cultural expressions. It also offers a characterization of the varied genres and a literary analysis of the forms as a way of understanding the diverse audiences engaging, and indeed “entertaining,” Darwin and the implications of his theory. It draws on an unusual set of historical materials, including illustrated sheet music, lyrics and librettos, wax cylinder recordings, vinyl records, and video recordings located in digital and sound archives and on the Internet. ABSTRACT This essay offers a chronological survey of the range of songs and musical productions inspired by Darwin and his theory since they entered the public sphere some 150 years ago. ![]()
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