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The Hip Hop Movement

From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation

by Reiland Rabaka
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement critically explores what each of these musics and movements’ contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop...
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by Patricia L. Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

This book examines how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at numerous examples of films, websites, television shows, and songs that have touched on—and impacted—this issue. • Covers freedom of speech issues in popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries as well...
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by Roy Shuker
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

Now in an updated fourth edition, this popular A-Z student handbook provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture. With new and expanded entries on genres and subgenres, the text comprehensively examines the social and cultural aspects of popular music, taking...
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Making Italian America

Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions...
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by Jonas Takors
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

Each age produces its own Henry(s). This innovative study in popular culture examines how novels, films, TV-series and historiography shape new versions of Henry VIII for the twenty-first century. From The Other Boleyn Girl to The Tudors, 2009’s quint-centenary celebrations of Henry’s coronation...
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Popular Memories

Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship

by Ekaterina V. Haskins, Thomas W. Benson
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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by José Anguiano, Marcel Brousseau, Olivia Cadaval
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity,...
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The American Imperial Gothic

Popular Culture, Empire, Violence

by Johan Hoglund
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists....
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Black Like You

Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture

by John Strausbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007

A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture. Particularly compelling is Strausbaugh's...
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Otaku

Japan's Database Animals

by Hiroki Azuma
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013

 In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture...
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Tarot in Culture

Volume One

by Emily E. Auger
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

Tarot in Culture is a well-illustrated (260 illus.) two-volume multi-author anthology of papers on Tarot. This ebook is Volume One (91 illus.) Contributions to Volumes One and Two range from original, in-depth, thoroughly documented studies of Tarot history, art, and literature to artists' statements...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

The terms "blue collar" and "working class" remain incredibly vague in the United States, especially in pop culture, where they are used to express and connote different things at different times. Interestingly, most Americans are, in reality, members of the working class, even if they do not necessarily...
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The Long Reconstruction

The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory

by Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013

A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory brings together history and popular...
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Hit Makers

How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction

by Derek Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER ** **A Book of the Year Selection for Inc. and Library Journal “This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off**." -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE Nothing “goes viral.” If...
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