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by Cheryl Eichar Jett
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
From 1926 through 1977, Route 66 carried millions of travelers from the shores of Lake Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Americans fell in love with the automobile and made a family tradition of the road trip. On its three different alignments through the capital city of Springfield, Route 66 took motorists...
Living It Up
Our Love Affair with Luxury
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the...
by Mark H. Moss
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Shopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the department store, the mall, and the e-store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people...
Britten's Century
Celebrating 100 Years of Britten
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book...
Dorothy and Otis
Designing the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising.
Dorothy and Otis Shepard are the unsung heroes of early twentieth-century North American visual culture. Together,...
Great Satan's rage
American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly engaged with America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially been the case when genres - hitherto clearly identified as indelibly 'black' or...
Ready, Steady, Go!
The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes,...
Primetime Propaganda
The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
“Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you’ll never watch TV the same way again.”
—Mark Levin
Movie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, “One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture,...
by Gail Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Elton John is a world renowned artist and his singing career has spanned many decades and being popular worldwide has brought about various memorabilia associated with this much loved musician including records, clothing, CD’s etc. But, possessing an item of Elton John memorabilia does not necessarily...
The Devil's Horn
The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
In The Devil's Horn, Michael Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone-a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and negative passions among all who hear it. The saxophone has insinuated itself into virtually every...
Stardust Melodies
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.
Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and...
Shock and Awe
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
NPR Great Read of 2016
From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars,...
The Book of Jezebel
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
From Jezebel.com, the popular website for women, comes a must-read encyclopedic guide to pop culture, feminism, fashion, sex, and much more.
Within months of Jezebel's May 2007 appearance on the new media scene, fans of the blog began referring to themselves as "Jezzies" in comment...
by Steve Lambley
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Ten examines the LP Yellow Submarine.
Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together to record, from the first...