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Analysing Popular Music

Image, Sound and Text

by David Machin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values,...

The City in Slang

New York Life and Popular Speech

by Irving Lewis Allen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger,...

Popular Culture in Africa

The Episteme of the Everyday

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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African...

Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Unearthing the messy and sprawling interrelationships of place, wellbeing, and popular music, this book explores musical soundscapes of health, ranging from activism to international charity, to therapeutic treatments and how wellbeing is sought and attained in contexts of music. Drawing on critical...

Dancing in Spite of Myself

Essays on Popular Culture

by Lawrence Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1997

In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg—well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies—has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one of the leading theorists of popular culture and, specifically, of rock music. Grossberg offers an...

Great Awakenings

Popular Religion and Popular Culture

by Frank Hoffmann, Marshall Fishwick, Beulah B Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take...

Popular Music Fandom

Identities, Roles and Practices

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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with the wider field of media fan research, raising...

Empowered

Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

by Sarah Banet-Weiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

In Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multimedia platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns. Examining feminist discourses that emphasize self-confidence, body positivity,...

Organizations and Popular Culture

Information, Representation and Transformation

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage reflexively...

Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel [3 volumes]

Pop Goes the Gospel

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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel addresses the full spectrum of evangelical media and popular culture offerings, even delving into lesser-known forms of evangelical popular culture such as comic books, video games, and theme parks. The chapters in this 3-volume work...

Mediums, Monks, and Amulets

Thai Popular Buddhism Today

by Pattana Kitiarsa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012

Mediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three...

The Popular Arts

by Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered...

Hop on Pop

The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003

Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers....

Rock and Popular Music

Politics, Policies, Institutions

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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005

Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved. International in its scope and conception, this innovative collection explores the...

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