Popular Culture category: 4839 books
An All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society’s fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting...
Relentless Progress
The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales...
Cool Japan Guide
Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Traveling to Japan has never been so much fun—visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi!
This graphic Japan travel guide is the first of its kind exploring Japanese culture from a cartoonist's perspective. Cool Japan Guide takes you on a fun tour from the high-energy...
Double Trouble
Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2001
From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image
In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall Show, put on dark glasses, and blew...
Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation
In Praise of a Plural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate:...
Altered State
The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era...
Generation Ecstasy
Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Hip Hop Matters
Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
From its humble beginnings in the Bronx to its transformation into a multibillion-dollar global industry, hip hop has stirred constant and contentious debate. Avoiding the simple caricatures that either celebrate or condemn this powerful movement, S. Craig Watkins produces one of the most thorough...
Disinformation: The Interviews
Uncut & Uncensored
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The best and most revealing interviews from the prococative TV series/DVD of the same name.
Richard Metzger presents the most compelling interviews from the hit TV series Disinformation, revealing mind-blowing thoughts from modern culture’s most radical thinkers:
Paul Laffoley on how...
Foundation
B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970s. Widely - though incorrectly - known as "breakdancing," it is often dismissed as a form of urban acrobatics set to music. In reality, however, b-boying is a deeply traditional and profoundly...
by Bryn Curt James Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
THE TOURIST GUIDE AMERICA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO GET YOUR HANDS ON!The USA – a country of cutting-edge urban architecture, historic murders that become part of pop culture, art galleries of Satan and free-spirited city culture were anything goes. America is nothing if not diverse and individual....
In the Catskills
A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains"
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2004
Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk,...