Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Bite Me
Food in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural...
Indian Country
Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership,...
Albion Dreaming
A popular history of LSD in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Contrary to popular belief, LSD is much more connected to Britain than it is to the USA. This engaging book looks at the use of LSD in British society, from its arrival in 1952 to the present day. It provides a hidden history of a controversial drug and how it permeated British culture. The author explores...
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American History through American Sports: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports [3 volumes]
From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This collection blends historical and popular culture perspectives in its analysis of the development of sports and sports figures throughout American history. American History through American Sports: From Colonial Lacrosse to Extreme Sports is unique in that it focuses on how each sport has transformed...
Popular Culture
The Metropolitan Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Opera in the Media Age
Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety...
Opium Culture
The Art and Ritual of the Chinese Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
A detailed study of the history and usage of opium
• Explores the use of opium as a major healing herb and a popular relaxant
• Details the opium practices adhered to in the Chinese tradition
• Includes information on the suppression of opium by the modern pharmaceutical...
by Brian Folker, Maia A. Gemmill, Patricia M. Goff
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own? In this timely yet otherworldly volume, more than a dozen scholars of international relations join hands to demonstrate how this well-loved artifact of popular culture reflects and shapes our own lifeworld. A wide...
Kvetching and Shpritzing
Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor—from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen—have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation....
Human Programming
Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Do our ways of talking about contemporary terrorism have a history in the science, technology, and culture of the Cold War? Human Programming explores this history in a groundbreaking work that draws connections across decades and throughout American culture, high and low. Scott Selisker argues that...
The Mystery of Samba
Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture...
Popular Culture
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Mike Bhangu
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
An angel or a demon, a person can be overcome by either one. Tragically, popular culture provokes the demon to captain the thoughts and actions of an individual.
The angel in you and me is under attack. Our spirituality is openly assaulted. This manuscript explores several of the cultural elements...
Monster Trek
The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every state except Hawaii. Interest in this creature, which many believe to be as mythical as a leprechaun, is as strong today as ever, with the wildly popular show Finding Bigfoot persisting on the Animal Planet network and references to bigfoot appearing throughout...