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American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915
Imagery and Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions of such postcards circulated among networks of community and kin as part of a larger American postcard craze. However, their uses and meanings were far from...
Trump Studies
An Intellectual Guide to Why Citizens Vote Against Their Interests
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Why do citizens vote against their own best interest?
Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore...
by Daniel S. Traber
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
It goes without saying that identity has long been a recurrent topic in studies of American culture. The struggle between group sameness and individual uniqueness is a common issue in understanding diversity in the United States on several levels—including how our differences have not always resulted...
Encyclopedia of KISS
Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The self-proclaimed “Hottest Band in the World,” KISS is one of the most popular groups in the history of rock, having sold more than 100 million albums during their more than 40–year reign. With more gold albums than any other American band, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Eminem is the best-selling musical artist of the 21st century. He is also one of the most contentious and most complex artists of our time. His verbal dexterity ranks him among the greatest technical rappers ever. The content of his songs combines the grotesque and the comical with the sincere and...
Quizzing America
Television Game Shows and Popular Culture in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The 1950s television game show was a cultural touchstone, reflecting the zeitgeist of a flourishing modern nation. The author explores the iconography of the mid–20th century U.S. in the context of TV watching, game playing and prize winning. The scandals that marred the genre’s reputation are revisited, highlighting American’s propensity for both gullibility and winking cynicism.
Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South
The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In 1949, Alan Schafer opened South of the Border, a beer stand located on bucolic farmland in Dillon County, South Carolina, near the border separating North and South Carolina. Even at its beginning, the stand catered to those interested in Mexican-themed kitsch--sombreros, toy pi-atas, vividly colored...
The South of the Mind
American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented a bulwark against unsettling problems, from suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and governmental deceit. A variety of individuals...
by Jan-Patrick Stolpmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: 1,3, University of East London (BUSINESS SCHOOL), course: Global Music Production & Distribution, language: English, abstract: Music Television, or MTV, a cable television network that allocates most of its broadcasting...
The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical Tourism
Celebrity Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Celebrity culture, health care, and travel attract attention in America’s media-saturated society. These worlds curiously intersect in the study of medical tourism. Although the US touts some of the finest and best-known medical facilities in the world, many jet-setting A-list celebrities, who can...
Adventures in Archaeology
The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Remnants of the curious and peculiar ways humankind has marked the archaeological landscape are abundant but often ignored: wrecked aircraft, abandoned airfields, old highway billboards, derelict boats, movie props, and deserted mining operations. In this book, archaeologist P.J. Capelotti explores...
Mainstreaming Sex
The Sexualisation of Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Mainstreaming Sex uncovers the significant impact, hitherto only half glimpsed, that striptease culture is having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives. It is a welcome and much needed book.
Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new, often surprising...
India Social
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS LEADING THE CHARGE AND CHANGING THE COUNTRY
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
`As a pioneer in the age when social media has become India?s new political pulpit and argumentative townsquare, Ankit Lal is perfectly poised to chronicle India?s transformational tryst with Twitter and Facebook and whatever comes next.? ? SHEKHAR GUPTA, senior journalist and recipient of the Padma...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy. This collection of 17 new essays is selected from the approximately 100 presentations of...