Popular category: 5638 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Mental health professionals and advocates typically point a finger at pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness, perpetuating stereotypes, and capitalizing on the increased anxiety that invariably follows mass shootings at schools, military bases, or workplaces; on public transportation;...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
The wide impact that the imagined alien has had upon Western culture has not been surveyed before; in many cases the essays in Aliens in Popular Culture are the first written on the topic. The book is a compendium of short entries on notable uses of aliens in popular culture across different media...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book demonstrates how popular culture can be successfully incorporated into medical and health science curriculums, capitalising on the opportunity fictional media presents to humanise case studies. Studies show that the vast majority of medical and nursing students watch popular medical television...
Dreaming of Dixie
How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and...
With Amusement for All
A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2006
Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment...
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music
From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief. This A to Z reference is the true musical...
by Frank Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials. The Chronology of American Popular Music, 1899-2000 fills this gap by offering a comprehensive overview of the field. It will be a must-own for libraries and individuals interested in this growing field of research.
Good Booty
Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
NPR Best Books of 2017
In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most...
Hello, Hello Brazil
Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
“Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres likesamba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de...
K-Pop
Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South...
Sexing the Groove
Popular Music and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw,...
Popular Culture in Modern France
A Study of Cultural Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
`Culture' is one of the most frequently used terms in the French vocabulary. It sells not only books, newspapers and magazines but also consumer products and political parties. But what are the meanings of `culture populaire'? What have the French understood by it, and what is its history?
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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy,...
Kitchen Culture in America
Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together,...