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Well Met
Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a...
The Michael Jackson Song Guide
237 Songs by the King of Pop
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Michael Joseph Jackson made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. His music videos, including those of "Beat...
Surrealism and the Cinema: Open-eyed Screening
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Available again after years out of print. Surrealism and the Cinema (1976), was an iconoclastic work of both film theory and art criticism, with its insightful readings of the films of Bunuel, Hitchcock, von Sternberg and Samuel Fuller and references to popular culture...
Climbing the Charts
What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers,...
by John Ross Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
What’s your damage?
In 1989, Michael Lehmann’s black comedy Heathers drew a line in the sand, rebuffing the sweetness and optimism of John Hughes’ more popular fare with darkness and death. Launching the careers of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers became a cult classic, ranking...
101 Interesting Facts on Arctic Monkeys
Learn About the English Indie Rock Band
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Are you a fan of rock band the Arctic Monkeys? Have you followed their career from the early days when the band first gained recognition via the internet through to international success? Would you like to know more about your favourite indie band? 101 Interesting Facts on Arctic Monkeys gives you the...
Future Nostalgia
Performing David Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his...
How Hemlines Predict the Economy
Explanations, Rationalizations, and Theories on Everything
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
A funny collection of quirky observations and modern folk wisdom—that may or may not be true.
Why does the dominant partner in any sexual relationship usually sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door? Is there a direct relationship between the length of hemlines and the state of the...
by Trav S.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Chain of Fools traces the art of slapstick comedy from its pre-cinema origins in the ancient pantomime through its silent movie heyday in the teens and twenties, then on to talkies, television, and the internet. Author Trav S.D. mixes a wicked wit, a scholar’s curiosity, and a keen critical appreciation...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This edition from the hugely popular Really Easy Piano series includes 18 Ed Sheeran songs arranged for easy Piano.
As always, each piece is accompanied by playing hiints and tips, as well as background notes and lyrics - perfect for any aspiring pianist looking to improve their paying, or...
The Rise of Enlightened Sexism
How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics,...
90s Bitch
Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
To understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitch tells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. Trailblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Marcia...
Strange Stars
How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ’n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s
As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated...
David Bowie in Darkness
A Study of 1. Outside and the Late Career
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
As an artist, David Bowie was widely considered a “chameleon,” shedding one persona to create another and thus staying popular, relevant and compelling. In reality, Bowie was able to work with the resources around him to create something new, causing many to see him as a sort of lone artist rather...