Theory Criticism category: 49531 books

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Crash

Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

by Karen Redrobe
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash...
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Real Life Rock

The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014

by Greil Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called “Real Life Rock Top Ten.” It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings,...
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Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground

From Obscurity to Literary Icon

by A. Debritto
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013

This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.
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by Joe Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

We all want to improve our music theory, but how many of us actually have the time to study it? Practising our instrument is difficult enough on its own. Never mind! It's Easy To Bluff gives you all the skills you need! You'll learn the basics of music theory without the need for extreme classical...
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by Georg Lukács
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010

György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical...
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Ecocriticism and Italy

Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation

by Professor Serenella Iovino
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016 Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016 Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death...
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Trends in African Popular Music

Socio-Cultural Interactions and the Reggae Genre in Nigeria

by Ikenna Emmanuel Onwuegbuna
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015

Popular music an acculturative product of the African folk musicscrutinized along the lines of musical and social processes as inseparable pair in developing the various genres of the eclectic musical form. In Nigeria, it is the congruent collaboration of creativity and politico-socio-economic activities...
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by Keith Potter, Kyle Gann
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries...
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Great Satan's rage

American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism

by Scott Wilson
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...
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Portraits in Jazz

80 Profiles of Jazz Legends, Renegades and Revolutionaries

by Howard Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

Howard Reich has reported on jazz for the Chicago Tribune for almost four decades, and in this time he has met musicians both celebrated and obscure. From his exclusive interviews with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, to profiles of the early masters like Louis Armstrong,...
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Hip Hop's Inheritance

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

by Reiland Rabaka
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the...
Cover of Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture
by Hilary McD. Beckles, Heather D. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015

Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture brings together US- and Caribbean-based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture and economy. Drawing from literature, history, musicology, sociology, cultural studies, feminist, gender, and queer studies, the creative/cultural...
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by William Kinderman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009

Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets,...
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