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Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
Habits of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements...
Asian Popular Culture
New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media, edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons, is an interdisciplinary study of popular culture practices in Asia, including regional and national studies in Japan, China, South Korea, and Australia. The contributors explore the evolution and...
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The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life [2 volumes]
The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
How did the experience of the Vietnam War change the United States, not just in the 1950s through the 1970s, but through to today? What role do popular music and movies play in how we think of the Vietnam War? How similar are the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and now Syria—to the Vietnam...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
The night and popular music have long served to energise one another, such that they appear inextricably bound together as trope and topos. This history of reciprocity has produced a range of resonant and compelling imaginaries, conjured up through countless songs and spaces dedicated to musical life...
by Peter Burke
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2014
En las últimas décadas, el concepto de cultura popular se ha relevado de gran utilidad en la investigación histórica de la Europa moderna. Gracias al trabajo pionero de Peter Burke, las herramientas del historiador cultural se aplican en cualquier aspecto de la historia, y han transformado nuestra...
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll
An Alternative History of American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter...
Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music
Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic. Covering musical and cultural developments, chapters primarily consider work Springsteen has released...
by Robert W. Witkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. He then goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific aspects of popular culture such as radio, film and popular music.
Recorded Music in American Life
The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1999
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed...
Rock Music in American Popular Culture III
More Rock 'n' Roll Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources explores the fascinating world of rock music and examines how this medium functions as an expression of cultural and social identity. This nostalgic guide explores the meanings and messages behind some of the most popular...
Experiencing David Bowie
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career now well...
I Could Not Call Her Mother
The Stepmother in American Popular Culture, 1750–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Stories of the stepmother, the substitute mother, or the “other mother” have infused popular culture for centuries and continue to do so today. She plays a substantial role in our collective imagination, whether we are a part of a step family or not. Despite the fact that the stepmother remains...
Homer Simpson Marches on Washington
Dissent through American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores...
Hollywood vs. America
Popular Culture And The War on Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism?
In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines...