Rolling Stones Research Articles

The Greatest Rock and Soul Band in the World? The Rolling Stones, genre and race

Abstract The Rolling Stones played a core role in establishing the generic conventions of rock. A key ideological element of this was the band's reverential dedication to the blues and the importance of the blues to their musical development. However, what is much less recognised is the influence of soul on the band's sound. By looking at the band's repertoire, composition and performing style, this paper explores the influence that soul, particularly Southern soul, had on the band's formative years and argues that, in many ways, they have adopted the aesthetic conventions of soul, rather than rock, for the majority of their career. Rethinking The Stones’ style in this way may help us better understand their position in the rock canon, while also encouraging careful interrogation of the racialised division of rock and soul that emerged in the late 1960s.

Like a Rolling Stone? A Review on Spontaneous Clearance of Hepatitis C Virus Infection.

Elimination of hepatitis C virus (HCV) without the need for medical intervention, known as spontaneous clearance (SC), occurs at a significantly lower rate than in the case of hepatitis B virus infection and only in selected individuals, such as reportedly in Keith Richards, a guitarist of The Rolling Stones. The present paper provides an updated narrative review of the research devoted to the phenomenon in order to identify and discuss the demographic, lifestyle-related, clinical, viral genotype-related, and host genetic factors underpinning the SC occurrence. The body of evidence indicates that the likelihood of SC is decreased in older individuals, men, Black people, HIV-coinfected subjects, and intravenous drug and alcohol users. In turn, HBV coinfection and specific polymorphism of the genes encoding interferon lambda 3 (particularly at rs8099917) and interferon lambda 4 (particularly at rs12979860) and HLA genes increase the odds of SC. Numerous other host-specific genetic factors could be implicated in SC, but the evidence is limited only to certain ethnic groups and often does not account for confounding variables. SC of HCV infection is a complex process arising from a combination of various factors, though a genetic component may play a leading role in some cases. Understanding factors influencing the likelihood of this phenomenon justifies better surveillance of high-risk groups, decreasing health inequities in particular ethnic groups, and may guide the development of a prophylactic vaccine, which at present is not available, or novel therapeutic strategies. Further research is needed to elucidate the exact mechanisms underlying SC and to explore potential interventions that could enhance this natural antiviral response.

SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT USING INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY ON THE LEFT MAIN? INSIGHT FROM ROLLING STONE RETROSPECTIVE REGISTRY

Abstract Background The use of rotational atherectomy is currently prevalent in the treatment of left main coronary artery lesions. However, it often necessitates the use of a large burr to achieve adequate debulking, which, in turn, demands highly experienced operators. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) is a promising, user–friendly and increasingly employed technique for calcific plaque modification before percutaneous coronary intervention. Although in many cath labs it is now routinely used to treat lesions of the three main coronary arteries, there are still concerns regarding its use in the left main, primarily due to prolonged inflations required for its optimal efficacy. Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis using data from the multicenter retrospective Rolling Stone registry. The analysis involved data from 474 patients, with a stratification between IVL procedures involving left main coronary artery (46 patients) and those that did not (428 patients). The primary effectiveness endpoint was procedural success (defined as achieving residual stenosis < 20% with TIMI III flow); secondary endpoints included the rate of procedural related adverse events, in hospital adverse events and MACE rate at 30 days and 6 months. Results Between April 2018 and January 2023, a total of 474 underwent IVL procedures. Most patients presented with calcific lesion requiring lithotripsy in non–left main segments, while IVL was performed on the left main artery in 46 patients. No significative differences were found on baseline characteristics between LM and non–LM groups. Treatment of IVL–LM lesion was marked by a high procedural success rate (97.8%) and a low incidence of procedural and peri–procedural complications. However, there was a higher rate of contrast–induced acute kidney injury in patients treated in LM (6.5% vs. 1.6%, p=0.030), although no other differences for in–hospital outcomes were observed. Furthermore, there were no differences in 30–day and 6–month follow–up outcomes between the two groups. Conclusions This study suggests that employing intravascular lithotripsy in the left main coronary artery is not only a safe procedure but also produces excellent results comparable to its application in other coronary branches. This provides a substantial level of confidence in the safety and effectiveness of IVL when used in this specific context.

Not a Rolling Stone: On Dragging a Stone Weight-Anchor on the Seabed

The force required to drag a stone anchor over several types of surfaces was measured, recorded, and analyzed. It was found that the force involved in the movement of the anchor over the various surfaces cannot be described just by the sliding solids theory, but it involves several additional physical processes, such as increasing the sand shear strength by the pressure the anchor applies on the sand under it; the sinking of the anchor into the saturated sand; shearing the sand in front of the moving anchor and accelerating it to the velocity of the anchor; accumulating sand in front of the anchor, thus adding to the pulled mass; and moving some of the accumulated sand sideways. In many instances, the beginning of the anchor movement involves the liquefaction of the sand under it, thus enabling the relatively easier sliding of the anchor. In addition, movement over rocky surfaces, encountering the irregularities that abound on such surfaces, also differs from classic sliding friction theory. In several situations, the use of an effective coefficient of friction, combining all the processes, can serve to obtain approximate values of the required forces.

‘Accidental Celebrities’

Using quantitative analysis, we analyzed the coverage of women indirectly involved in four major U.S. presidential scandals (Watergate, Iran-Contra, Clinton-Lewinsky affair, Ukraine quid pro quo) through 258 articles published in six magazines (The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone) to assess how they are described by journalists. Three assumptions guided our analysis. First, women are covered in a negative way even if they are not responsible for the scandal. Second, they are covered by the magazines in a stereotypical way to describe their behavior, their character, or their role in the scandal. Finally, the coverage of women involved in more recent scandals is less stereotypical and less negative. While the literature shows that women receive more negative coverage than men when they are responsible for political scandals, our results show that this is also the case for these “accidental celebrities”.

Impact Force Algorithm and Parameters of Rolling Stone Impact Pier in Mountain Area

In mountainous bridge engineering, the impact of falling rocks on bridge piers is a critical issue. Although various algorithms have been used to calculate impact forces, there is limited research on the impact force algorithm for rolling stones hitting bridge piers. This study, based on the impulse–momentum theorem and the impact force algorithm proposed by professor Ye Siqiao, derived an impact force algorithm for rolling stones hitting bridge piers at different impact velocities and angles. Additionally, an indoor scaled‐down test was designed to analyze the effects of impact velocity, angle, and position on impact force, and the results were compared with domestic and international algorithms and the calculated values of the formula derived in this paper. The results show that at an impact velocity of 3.45 m/s and an impact angle of 30°, the peak impact force reached 16.37 kN, which is a 22% increase from 12.85 kN at 2.83 m/s and a significant 53.9% increase from 10.56 kN at 2.29 m/s. Furthermore, the impact force decreased by 13.8% and 21.73% as the impact angle increased from 30° to 45° and 60°, respectively. These findings underscore the significant influence of impact velocity and angle on impact force, highlighting the necessity for accurate algorithms in engineering applications. The formula derived in this paper yielded results closest to the peak impact force, with errors between the results under each impact condition and the peak impact force fluctuating within an engineering acceptable range of ~10%, indicating that the formula derived in this paper is more accurate and reasonable for engineering applications.

Melodic Differences Between Styles: Modeling Music With Step Inertia

A well-known phenomenon in melodic structure is “step inertia”: the tendency for a step to be followed by another step in the same direction. There is strong evidence of step inertia in three corpora of Western common-practice melodies: European folk songs, classical instrumental themes, and English hymn tunes. Surprisingly, modern Western popular music does not reflect step inertia. In Billboard’s Hot 100, and Rolling Stone magazine's list of “greatest songs,” inertial (same-direction) steps are less likely than non-inertial ones. To further explore the role of step inertia in different corpora, we created a generative model that assigns probabilities to melodies, considering just four factors: range, pitch proximity, scale-degree frequency within a key, and step inertia. We optimized the weights of these factors for the Essen Folksong Collection and the Billboard corpus, and compared them with n-gram models. The optimal (normalized) weight of the inertia factor is large and positive for the Essen collection (.51) and small for the Billboard corpus (.02). This is further evidence that step inertia plays a much smaller role in popular melodies than common-practice ones, and that non-inertial steps are slightly favored.

Elimination method of sliding blockage effect in discrete element simulation of rolling stone based on discrete fracture network and damping joint model

The particle essence of the discrete element method could prevent the rock block from sliding on the slope surface due to the stress concentration between the convex particles of the sliding block and the slope. To eliminate this sliding blockage effect and simulate more realistic rockfall, slope surface was transformed into a series of successive joints by the discrete fracture network technique, and a damping joint model was developed by adding a normal dashpot and a shear dashpot on the smooth joint model that does not have damping properties. The motion processes of sliding, rolling, and collision were simulated by the proposed method, and the damping and movement performances were investigated. The macroscopic sliding and rolling friction coefficients significantly increase with the microscopic friction coefficient and the shear damping ratio. The normal restitution coefficient of collision decreases with the normal damping ratio, while the shear restitution coefficient of collision decreases with both the shear damping ratio and the friction coefficient. Furthermore, the simulation of a rockfall case demonstrates the proposed method represented a more realistic movement process and more plentiful characteristics of collision, sliding and rolling, compared with the simulated results of Rocfall software.

The Times They Are A-Changin': An Analysis of Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine published its first list of the “500 Greatest Songs” of all time. Their list was recently revised in 2021. Over half of the song titles in the first list were displaced by hit songs released since 2004 or by hit songs released before 2004 that found new popularity among the magazine’s 2021 survey respondents. The authors examine how well hit songs released (i) before 1970, (ii) during the 1970s, (iii) the 1980s, and (iv) the 1990s hold up in the rankings between the two lists. Chi-square tests on contingency tables show that despite the smaller number of hits released before 2000 in the 2021 list, the decade of the song’s release is unrelated to ranking. That is, hit songs released in the 1970s are no less popular (as a percentage of all 500 hit songs in the “Top 100”) in 2021 than they were in 2004.

Pojawienie się bluesa w Polsce. Przypadek inwersji w ewolucji gatunku muzycznego

The emergence of blues from the aesthetics of the so-called “big-beat” in Polish popular music is a process that largely coincides with a parallel phenomenon observed in other European countries. With the expansion of rock and roll in the UK during the 1960s, many beat performers (e.g. The Rolling Stones, The Animals) turned towards blues aesthetics, attempting to imitate black American performers. It should be emphasised that this was done in isolation from the cultural context and “root” performance tradition and was a kind of experiment that, despite some cases of apparent stylistic deviation from the blues genre, brought many positive results, such as the emergence of the blues-rock subgenre or the penetration of blues elements into hard rock and progressive rock. The article’s title uses the term “inversion”, reflecting the reversed order of genre evolution. In Europe, blues did not imply the development of jazz or rock and roll, but through these genres, musicians and listeners became interested in the blues form and used its elements to transform the beat style into rock, eventually developing traditional blues performance. This article attempts to reconstruct the process of adapting blues in Poland and transforming the beat into a blues-rock style. The analysed phenomena’ chronological framework reaches back to jazz’s beginnings in the interwar period, while the clear boundary marking the emergence of blues-rock and its emancipation is the release of Breakout’s Blues album in February 1971.

The Rolling Stone Archive

From the first issue in 1967 to the most recent, the Rolling Stone Archive provides access to every article in every issue in PDF format. From its initial focus on popular and specifically rock music, it has expanded its coverage to Americana and popular culture over the years. Indexing is provided to all content, including the shortest news items, covers, and advertisements.

Reading Joey Soloway: popularizing feminist and queer theory in independent film and television

ABSTRACT Engaging with ideas of hegemonic masculinity, femininity, homosexuality, and heteronormativity, this article examines the film and television work of Joey Soloway as a means of studying the popularization of feminist and queer theory within contemporary American independent media. By focusing on representations of non-normative genders and sexualities (including sex work, transgender identity, and polyamory), I explore the ways in which Soloway pushes feminist and queer theory beyond the limits of the popular. Through overt references to feminist and queer filmmakers and theory, I argue that Soloway’s film and television work subverts traditional modes of storytelling. Examining Soloway’s first film Afternoon Delight and their two series for Amazon, Transparent (2014–2019) and I Love Dick (2016), as well as the coverage of Soloway’s work within the popular press (for example, The New York Times, Newsweek, Huffington Post, and Rolling Stone), this article also analyzes how Soloway’s own authorial persona and their public identification with queerness intertwines with the personal, the political, and the popular.

ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC CONDITION IN THE GEORGER WARKER BUSH. ERA AS REFLECTED IN THE NOVEL THE HUSBAND BY DEAN KOONTZ

The analysis of this research is the novel "The husband" written by Dean Koontz. This novel is one of the novels recognized as "the most popular suspense novelist in America" ​​(Rolling stone) and as one of the most well-known and successful writers today, Dean Ray Koontz has received millions of readers worldwide and praise from critics everywhere- where for stories about characters, mysteries, and heartfelt adventures. In the novel the husband by Dean Koontz, which tells the story of George Walker Bush's leadership. The fourth section closes with a brief description of the background conditions against which Mr. Bush's second term was set. In general, the author has found that the Bush administration's reaction to the recession that took place between 2001 and late 2003 was correct, but poorly schemed.

Rothko, the Rolling Stones, and Matisse: Grounding in a time of uncertainty

ABSTRACT In surfing the waves of COVID-19 and the current socio-political culture of alarm, uncertainty, and anxiety, I describe how exploring works by Mark Rothko, the Rolling Stones, and Henri Matisse helped me find grounded experiential footing during the pandemic. Rothko’s multiform and later paintings encouraged exploration of the soul, experiences of the ineffable, of life-and-death. In contrast, the Rolling Stones inspired me to feel my heart, my beat, my connectedness to rhythm and knowledge that presence rests on interpersonal connection. Finally, as seen in The Red Studio, Matisse and his use of color re-vivify the experience of living, and provided a roadmap back to optimism.

ACADEMIC MENTAL HEALTH GALA: BRIDGING THE GAP

According to a BBC report published in 2016, around 15 million people in Pakistan are struggling with psychiatric disorders of any cause. The irony of the fact is that the psychiatric patients of Pakistan are still in search of rights to treat as patients, chained or tied, swinging like a rolling stone between ancient cultural beliefs and modern psychiatric management (mhGAP). Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (MH Rana), Sheikh Zayed Medical College/Hospital (SZMCH), Rahim Yar Khan has been a strong advocate of providing effective treatment to the mentally ailing community. As a part of efforts, Academic Mental Health Gala: Bridging the Gap was organized in Rahim Yar Khan on 06-07th March 2022. The academic mental health gala was organized by the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences SZMCH in collaboration with the World Psychiatric Association, Pakistan Psychiatric Society, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (RYK campus), Enabling Center IUB, Mind Health Movement, and Al-Mustafa Mental, Addiction, and Behavioral Health Services.

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by John Davis

<i>Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher</i> by John Davis

Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s

Sándor Horváth. <i>Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s</i>

Dynamic responses of 500-kV transmission line towers under impact force of rockfall in a mountainous area

Since most of the UHV/EHV transmission lines pass through mountainous areas, the impact of rocks caused by landslides or collapses may cause partial deformation of the iron tower, or even collapse, seriously threatening the safety operation of transmission lines. To analyze the dynamic response characteristics and influencing factors of the rolling rock impacting the transmission line tower, a simulation model for the 500-kV steel suspension tower impacted by the falling rock was established by finite element analysis software LS-DYNA in this study, and dynamic response characteristics of the rolling rock impacting the steel tower were analyzed under different conditions. Results show that the stress on the tower foundation is closely related to the mass, volume, and initial velocity of the rolling stone. Under the same rolling stone speed, the stress on the tower foundation increases as the mass of the rolling stone increases. The maximum increase in peak stress generated between the two can reach 110%; when rolling stones of the same size collide with different initial velocities, the location and magnitude of the peak stress of the tower foundation are different. When the initial speed of the rolling stones is more remarkable than 15 m/s, the tower foundation of the hit area increased significantly, causing the tower base to be directly destroyed.

The rolling stones of Bronze Age Aegean: Applying machine learning to explore the use of lithic spheres from Akrotiri, Thera

Across the Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, various small spherical lithic artefacts have been discovered. The exact use of such artefacts remains a mystery, possible interpretations suggest that they are a form of counting system or counters for board games. This paper examines the largest collection of such artefacts found in the area to-date, the 746 spheres from the prehistoric town of Akrotiri in the island of Thera (Santorini). After the spheres were assessed and traditional statistical analyses were applied, machine learning was employed to further examine clustering of the spheres and to suggest potential interpretations of their manufacture, use and deposition. The paper concludes with the suggestion that the workflow proposed here, for Akrotiri, can be used to examine patterns in similar artefact groups from the Easter Mediterranean and beyond.

Prediction of Highway Blocking Loss Based on Ensemble Learning Fusion Model

Road blocking events refer to road traffic blocking caused by landslides, debris flow, snow disasters, rolling stones and other factors. To predict road blocking events, the limit gradient lifting model (XGBoost), random forest regression model (RF regression) and support-vector regression model (SVR) are used as the prediction meta-models, and then the meta-models are fused by a logical regression algorithm to construct a road blocking loss prediction fusion model based on ensemble learning. The actual road blocking event data are used to train the model. Using the same blocking location and similar blocking loss characteristics between adjacent points to fill in the missing value and conducting one-hot encoding for other short character sets with obvious category characteristics such as letters, numbers, and Chinese characters overcomes the problems of inherent data loss, error and time logic disorder in the blocking event data set. The test results show that the R2 score based on the stacking fusion model reaches 0.91, which is 18% higher than RF and 11% and 5.8% higher than SVR and XGBoost, respectively, and the RMSE and MAE values are 0.1707 and 0.0341, respectively. Therefore, the proposed road blocking data preprocessing method and road blocking loss prediction fusion model can be used to predict the amount of blocking event loss.