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Hallyu 2.0
The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu’s impact on Korea’s national...
Bono: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Bono is a passionate, articulate celebrity who has transcended his role as international rock star and become an effective political activist. This book provides insights into his life story and contributions to both popular culture and politics.
• Contains many direct quotes from Bono's...
Elvis After Elvis
The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.'
Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US culture? Why does he continue to enjoy a cultural...
by Sidney Perkowitz, Eddy von Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Few creations have risen from literary origins to reach world-wide importance like Frankenstein. This landmark volume celebrates the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's creation and its indelible impact on art and culture.
The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy...
Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination
Music, Film, and Photography
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature’s impact upon the arts through media, we may easily find a match for greater humanism and popular interaction in American rock culture through Paul Bowles. In this work, Bowles is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Music, Power, and Politics presents sixteen different cultural perspectives on the concept of music as a site of socio-political struggle. Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even...
by William Farina
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us. During the 20th century, its most prominent American exponents were the Germans Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya, whose careers extended through the 1970s. Because of them (and others), the words and music of such artists...
True Disbelievers
Elvis Contagion
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The legion of fans who refuse to believe that Elvis Presley died August 16, 1977 has been a major force behind the ever-expanding, elusive, and enduring Elvis myth during the past seventeen years. This network of fervent true believers engages in activities that include a melange of sightings and...
Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene
Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices, identities, and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene, the...
The Taylor Swift Quiz Book
100 Questions on the American Singer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Are you a fan of multi-award-winning artist Taylor Swift? Have you followed her steady rise to fame from young performer to international superstar? Do you know everything there is to know about the popular American singer? If you think you know all about Taylor or want to find out more about her, why...
Filmspeak
How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular culture.
Theory reaches us in ways we do not even realize. Issues such as the nature of knowledge or truth, the function of personal response...
Art and Politics in Have Gun--Will Travel
The 1950s Television Western as Ethical Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
From 1955 to 1964, American television was awash in adult Westerns, as much as one quarter of all prime-time programming. During its six seasons (1957-1963), Have Gun-Will Travel was recognized as one of the best shows on television--politically the most liberal, and intellectually and aesthetically...
Making Italian America
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions...
by William D. Crump
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This considerably expanded third edition of The Christmas Encyclopedia (2001) adds 281 new entries, bringing the total number of Christmas topics to more than 760. Continuing in the format of the previous editions, a wide variety of subjects are included: individual carols and songs; historical events...