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What the Music Said
Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Conspiracy of Good Taste
William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough Williams-Ellis and the repression of working class culture in the C20th
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
“The Conspiracy of Good Taste is a passionate analysis of the way working class culture has been appropriated and sanitised by middle class mediators of taste. Using the case studies of William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough William-Ellis, Szczelkun challenges their often widely seen role as enlightened...
Freedom Dreams
The Black Radical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2002
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of...
Syria - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
After years of diplomatic isolation Syria is emerging from the cold. Its government is a key Middle Eastern player, and will be a major element of any possible comprehensive Middle Eastern peace deal. To visit Syria is to become acquainted with one of the most rewarding destinations in the Middle...
by Frenchy Lunning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures.
Presenting the world of subcultural fetish clothing design in all of its richness and beauty, this book explores the idea of fetish as subversive...
Amusing the Million
Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social...
Resting Places
The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates,...
American Remakes of British Television
Transformations and Mistranslations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like...
Women of Blaxploitation
How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
With the Civil Rights movement of the sixties fresh in their perspective, movie producers of the early 1970s began to make films aimed toward the underserved African American audience. Over the next five years or so, a number of cheaply made, so-called blaxploitation movies featured African American...
by Patty Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Following her success with Playboy Swings, Patty Farmer looks at Playboy’s relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs.* *
Playboy Laughs invites readers onto the sets of the organization’s groundbreaking TV shows, Playboy Penthouse and Playboy After...
Club Cultures
Boundaries, Identities and Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring...
Radio Flyer
100 Years of America’s Little Red Wagon
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A visual history of one of childhood’s most beloved icons—the Little Red Wagon—told through a rich collection of photos and stories that highlight its unique place in American culture.
For generations, the Radio Flyer—the fire engine red wagon with the distinctive white logo emblazoned...
Culture War
How the '90s Made Us Who We Are Today (Whether We Like It or Not)
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
What didn’t you like about the 1990s—the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a candid look at the decade after the Cold War and before 9/11, when America’s culture war began with the election of a media-savvy, Baby Boomer president...
Superheroes and American Self Image
From War to Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced. Structured around key political events in the US between 1938 and 1975, the author combines analyses of visual and textual discourse,...