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The Occult Arts of Music
An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine—nowhere more so,...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Beyond The Chinese Connection, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed's...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Beyond “The Chinese Connection,” Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael...
African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings
Race-ing for Ratings
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation.
by Cecilia Alero Titilayo Saibu, David Wafula Yenjela, Shalini Nadaswaran
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular culture; and as texts in their own right from within...
Living Room Wars
Rethinking Media Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist. Ang examines how the makers and marketers...
Godly Heretics
Essays on Alternative Christianity in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
When computers freeze, they are “rebooted” and soon working properly again. Similarly, legendary thinkers throughout history have argued that Christianity should start fresh by recapturing the humanitarian spirit of Jesus’ original message. These include such disparate individuals as Thomas...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.
Sundays with Vlad
From Wal-Mart to Transylvania, One Man's Quest to Live in the World of the Undead
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Examines Dracula as a cultural icon, describing his transformation from a fictional character in Bram Stoker's novel to a figure that has pervaded popular culture.
Progressive Country
How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the early 1970s, the nation’s turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin’s kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city’s progressive country music scene. Capturing a pivotal chapter in American social history, Progressive Country maps the conflicted iconography of “the...
Tramps Like Us
Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
As rock critics have noted in the past, Bruce Springsteen's songs exist in a world of their own--they have their own settings, characters, words, and images. It is a world that even those who know only a handful of Springsteen's lyrics can instantly recognize, a world of highways and factories, loners...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
An American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Ronald D. Lankford has written the definitive history of this iconic and much-loved Christmas character. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was the creation of Robert May, a staff copywriter who wrote the original poem as a Montgomery Ward Christmas giveaway in 1939. More than 2.4 million copies were...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The collection provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially 'New Age' and 'Neo-Paganism') through studies of rave's Gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture,...
by Bob Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
In this thematically organized biography, cultural historian and prolific biographer Bob Batchelor examines one of the most important yet elusive figures in modern history. Rather than taking an exhaustive and cumbersome chronological approach to Bob Dylan's 50-plus year career, the author focuses...