Popular Culture category: 4839 books
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
'From The Passion of the Christ to the presumed 'clash of civilizations', religion's role in culture is increasingly contested and mediated. Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture is a welcome and interdisciplinary contribution that maps the territory for those who aim to make sense of it all....
Football and Accelerated Culture
This Modern Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity,...
Turkey - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Standing astride two continents and stretching from Europe to the Middle East, Turkey is both feared by the West and wooed by it. Travelers have always been drawn to its glorious cultural heritage and heroic landscapes, and today, thanks to its burgeoning economy, growing geo-political importance,...
Ethiopia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Tunisia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Belgium - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Pop Art and Popular Music
Jukebox Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism...
by Aaron Lefkovitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized...
State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
Enchantings
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the...
Culture and Anarchy
An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (Including the Biography of the Author)
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
"Culture and Anarchy" is Arnold's most famous piece of writing on culture which established his High Victorian cultural agenda and remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. Arnold's often quoted phrase "culture is the best which has been thought and said" comes...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
The night and popular music have long served to energise one another, such that they appear inextricably bound together as trope and topos. This history of reciprocity has produced a range of resonant and compelling imaginaries, conjured up through countless songs and spaces dedicated to musical life...
by Peter Burke
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2014
En las últimas décadas, el concepto de cultura popular se ha relevado de gran utilidad en la investigación histórica de la Europa moderna. Gracias al trabajo pionero de Peter Burke, las herramientas del historiador cultural se aplican en cualquier aspecto de la historia, y han transformado nuestra...