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Popular Memories
Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals,...
Rock Music in American Popular Culture
Rock 'n' Roll Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items...
Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which...
Popular Culture
Introductory Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
For courses in popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media.
Pop culture surrounds us. Its products are the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read; they are on our televisions, phones, and computers. We are its fickle friend, loving to hate it and hating...
American Taboo: The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture
The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies.
• Analyzes an enormous range of popular culture...
Popular Culture
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.
Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary...
Wild Science
Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA research, and news reports about cloning, the fight against AIDS, cancer and depression. With popular culture...
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Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon [2 volumes]
The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon provides an unprecedented, comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture. Authored by a Mormon studies librarian and author of numerous writings regarding Mormon folklore, culture, and history, this book provides...
by Charles A. Nunley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Robert Desnos remains celebrated today as one of France’s most famous surrealist artists and as a hero and martyr of the French Resistance. Robert Desnos and the Play of Popular Culture sheds new light onto both of these facets of his persona and uncovers the fundamental connections between them...
Hip Hop's Amnesia
From Blues and the Black Women's Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals, classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women’s Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black Muslim Movement? How did black...
Popular Music Matters
Essays in Honour of Simon Frith
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest academic publication, The Sociology of Rock (1978), through to his recent work on the live music industry in the UK, in his desire to ’take popular music...
Popular Music
Topics, Trends & Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
'An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field' - John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland
Organized in accessible sections and covering the main...
Japanese Popular Music
Culture, Authenticity and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture.
Based both on extensive...