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Funky Nassau
Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian...
by Lynn Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.
A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College...
Audio Culture, Revised Edition
Readings in Modern Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical...
Rock Star
The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway...
Slanted and Enchanted
The Evolution of Indie Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon
You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music: Modest Mouse, the Shins, Pavement. You know the ethos: DIY with a big helping...
by Nick Salvato
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates...
Ballroom Dancing: Learn Romantic Ballroom Dance Steps & Types of Dance to Ignite the Passion
Ballroom Dancing - The Sure-Fire Way to Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
**UPDATED FOR 2019**
Ballroom Dancing: Learn Romantic Ballroom Dance Steps & Types of Dance to Ignite the Passion
Did you know that dancing is the fastest way to the ignite romance? If you've been trying to win her (or his) heart, dancing is the best way to do it! " Dancing...
by Kat Von D
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
High Voltage Tattoo is a graphic perspective on today's global tattoo culture by Kat Von D, star of The Learning Channel's L.A. Ink and one of the most talented and popular artists working today. Designed in a style that is reminiscent of a handmade Gothic journal with its red padded cover, ornate...
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive...
Teenage
The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the English punk movement" (The New York Times). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental...
True Stories of CSI
The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, C.S.I.
Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that...
Realism for the Masses
Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic...
Egregores
The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The first book to explore the history and influence of egregores, powerful autonomous psychic entities created by a collective group mind
• Examines the history of egregores from ancient times to present day, including their role in Western Mystery traditions and popular culture and media
•...
by Matt Yockey
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
ABC’s action-comedy series Batman (1966–68) famously offered a dual address in its wildly popular portayal of a comic book hero in a live action format. Children uncritically accepted the show’s plots and characters, who were guided by lofty ideals and social values, while adults reacted to the...