Lexington Books: 3858 books
When Architecture Meets Activism
The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban...
Emerging Traditions
Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The monograph explores the linguistic impact of the colonial and postcolonial situations in South Africa on language policy, on literary production and especially on the stylistics of fiction by indigenous South Africans writing in English. A secondary concern is to investigate the present place of...
Don't Stop Thinking About the Music
The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages. From “Follow Washington” to “I Like Ike” to...
Hip Hop's Amnesia
From Blues and the Black Women's Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals, classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women’s Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black Muslim Movement? How did black...
by Emilia Barbosa, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres, Olga Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia,...
by Melissa Ooten
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. At its most basic level, it analyzes the project of state film censorship in Virginia. It uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political,...
Meaninglessness
The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud, and Rorty
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
What would the world be like if we no longer needed meaning? Australian sociologist Michael Casey's revealing work charts the collapse of the metaphysical world and the innate human need for meaning. With the decline of Christianity and the demise of secular universalism in the west, the meaning and...
Individualism
The Cultural Logic of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,...
The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour
Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book recasts the import of Mme de Pompadour as a political and artistic patron at the court of Versailles in mid-eighteenth centery France. Pompadour's visual record is lush and the memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and political records are fecund examples of the weight she carried. In them...
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage
Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The 'texts' associated with this town's public history_tourist brochures, promotional narratives, historic homes, memorials, and monuments_are...
Political Blind Spots
Reading the Ideology of Images
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
by Roberto Schaefer, Lindsay Coleman, Ceri Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices....
Death Metal and Music Criticism
Analysis at the Limits
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits, by Michelle Phillipov, is a significant intervention in popular music studies, and in the growing area of metal studies in particular. Combining original analyses of death metal with substantial and accessible overviews of popular music studies...
Biomass
To Win the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
After addressing the basic knowledge of bioenergy and its development in the United States, the European Union, and Brazil, this book places emphasis on the introduction of China’s bioresources, its development since 2001, and the difficulties it encountered. In the concluding chapter, Shi presents...