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Campus Traditions
Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American campus life and how it is shaped by students and at...
by Ebony A. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Why is the battle between good and evil a recurring theme in rap lyrics? What role does the devil play in hip hop? What exactly does it mean when rappers wear a diamond-encrusted "Jesus" around their necks? Why do rappers acknowledge God during award shows and frequently include prayers in their albums?...
Contemporary Chinese Print Media
Cultivating Middle Class Taste
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate...
Hater
On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A timely manifesto urging us to think critically, form opinions, and then argue them with gusto.
Hater begins from a simple premise: that it's good to hate things. Not people or groups or benign belief systems, but things. More to the point, it's good to hate the things everyone seems to like.
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by William Farina
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us. During the 20th century, its most prominent American exponents were the Germans Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya, whose careers extended through the 1970s. Because of them (and others), the words and music of such artists...
Art and Politics in Have Gun--Will Travel
The 1950s Television Western as Ethical Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
From 1955 to 1964, American television was awash in adult Westerns, as much as one quarter of all prime-time programming. During its six seasons (1957-1963), Have Gun-Will Travel was recognized as one of the best shows on television--politically the most liberal, and intellectually and aesthetically...
by William D. Crump
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This considerably expanded third edition of The Christmas Encyclopedia (2001) adds 281 new entries, bringing the total number of Christmas topics to more than 760. Continuing in the format of the previous editions, a wide variety of subjects are included: individual carols and songs; historical events...
Digital Connectivity and Music Culture
Artists and Accomplices
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group interviewing, and discourse analysis,...
New Woman Hybridities
Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth...
The Culture of Capital
Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Leading literary critics and historians reassess one of the defining features of early modern England -the idea of "capital." The collection reevaluates the different aspects of the concept amidst the profound changes of the period.
The Munchkin Book
The Official Companion - Read the Essays * (Ab)use the Rules * Win the Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
With 18 exclusive Munchkin® game rules!By gently and sometimes not so gently mocking the fantasy dungeon crawl and the sacred cows of pop culture, the Munchkin card game has stabbed and sneaked and snickered a path to the pinnacle of success. Along the way, it has sold millions of copies, been...
The Renaissance Computer
Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge.
As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books...
The Big Redhead Book
Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair is an inside look into one of the most elite societies in the world—the real two percent. Well, you know, the two percent of the world's population that are natural redheads, at least. This book has equal parts pop culture, ginger facts,...
Lincoln before Lincoln
Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Remembered as the Savior of the Union, Abraham Lincoln is one of America's most revered presidents. There have been tens of thousands of books published about him since his death, but he has proved to be a surprisingly daunting subject for filmmakers. Despite a wealth of biographical material, relatively...