Popular Culture category: 4839 books
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,...
On Highway 61
Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
“An essential volume for music lovers.” —East Bay Times
On Highway 61 searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution over the past 150 years—by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world’s most popular superhero. The continued relevance of the caped crusader could be attributed to his complex character, his dual identity,...
From Daniel Boone to Captain America
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth century, American...
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth
Beyond Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and...
Geek Rock
An Exploration of Music and Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. The term “geek rock” refers to forms of popular music that celebrate all things campy, kitschy, and quirky. In this collection...
by Lynn Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.
A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College...
Rock Star
The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway...
Slanted and Enchanted
The Evolution of Indie Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon
You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music: Modest Mouse, the Shins, Pavement. You know the ethos: DIY with a big helping...
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive...
by warren susman
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from...
Egregores
The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The first book to explore the history and influence of egregores, powerful autonomous psychic entities created by a collective group mind
• Examines the history of egregores from ancient times to present day, including their role in Western Mystery traditions and popular culture and media
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by Matt Yockey
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
ABC’s action-comedy series Batman (1966–68) famously offered a dual address in its wildly popular portayal of a comic book hero in a live action format. Children uncritically accepted the show’s plots and characters, who were guided by lofty ideals and social values, while adults reacted to the...
"Our Bums"
The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don’t know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular culture and revealing lesser-known details of the...