Popular culture Books

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1.3, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Veranstaltung: Sport und regionale Identität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Mythen um das...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,5, Universität Stuttgart (Institut für Sportwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Computernutzung der Jugendlichen, die bereits seit einiger Zeit immer häufiger von...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,7, Universität Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Guido Westerwelle sagte am 4. September 2004 im ZDF Sportstudio: „Bis 40 kann man Sport machen, ab 40 muss man Sport...

This book merges the arts and sciences. It provides an overview of the history of sugar and its effect on Berber traditions & culture in Morocco. The introduction of sugar to Morocco had a major influence on society including traditional Berber...

Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study of artsfestivals has long been neglected. The burgeoning festivals industry is,however, firmly embedded in both the arts funding and weekly calendarof European cities, and there is no...

This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature - ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints - in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types...

Venue Stories is an anthology of creative non-fiction that remembers, celebrates and reinvigorates our complex and plural relationship with small and independent music spaces. Written by musicians, promoters, fans and academics who have a shared passion...

Have you ever had an Uber or Lyft ride? Ever asked your driver about his or her crazy or steamy incidents. Of course, you have. I had these questions daily for the 3 years I drove for Uber.Now, Juicy Uber gives you the best of the best and...

This book is a travelogue on Uzbekistan focusing mainly on three cities, that are Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand. Uzbekistan is famous and important in many ways in the present era, but if we talk about devotion, this country is called the country of...

This book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series headed by Professor Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.*Includes images.At the turn...

It's Your Word Against Mine is a collection of stories by Sylvester Carrington that compares unique cultural words and phrases from his native Barbados with select American terms. Some of these words have a different meaning in his culture, while others...

A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studiesIt has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and...

Folklore Recycled starts from the proposition that folklore--usually thought of in its historical social context as "oral tradition"--is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in their fiction or poetry,...

Welcome to this exploration of the Roots of hip-hop. The roots of hip-hop, as in: the Roots--a story of one of the most enduring, multi-talented, and successful groups of the past thirty years in any genre--and the story of the roots of hip-hop, that is,...

"Are you ready and excited to start designing your wedding? Keep this in mind: the most important thing is to enjoy this wonderful process. This is an exciting beginning of a wonderful life. Your wedding week is a celebration, so let’s make planning it a...

Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim...

It's been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b. 1970) burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In that time, he has gone on to publish several books of fiction, a few more...

Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann's oeuvre--which includes a "prostitution trilogy," a septology (Seven Dreams) about encounters between first North Americans and European colonists, and a more than...

Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics...

Le livre ""Armorial De La Ville De Toulon (1900)"" �����crit par Octave Teissier est une description compl�����te de l'h�����raldique de la ville de Toulon en France. Publi����� en 1900, ce livre pr�����sente les armoiries et les blasons de la ville...

Revelations published by the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks, including the releases of U.S. diplomatic cables in what became referred to as 'Cablegate', put WikiLeaks into the international spotlight and sparked intense about the role and impact of...

Narrative explanations are preferred over non-narrative, axiomatically, in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. Firstly they correspond more closely than a-narrative theories to reality. Secondly they enable, at the very least,...

Over the past sixty years, the massacre of Thiaroye (Senegal), the 1944 mutiny of African soldiers that was severely suppressed by the French army, has been continuously reinterpreted by artists such as L. S. Senghor, F. Keita, Doumbi-Fakoly, O. Sembene,...

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive...

Across the globe, nations are switching to digital television at dramatic speed. The technology was in its infancy in the 1990s, but by the end of 2012 about half of the world's 1.2 billion TV households had converted to digital reception and some thirty...

Timely and ground-breaking, Love in Western Film and Television discloses surprising, and often disturbing, information about the complicated (and often conflicted) emotional frontiers found in Western films released after the Second World War. Fourteen...

This book provides perspectives on relationships between Asian popular culture and a number of major socio-political issues and movements, including war responsibility, democratization, globalization, urbanization, modernization, and gender...

Popular culture and new media are deeply interwoven, yet they are often thought of as separate spheres. This book explores the material and everyday intersections between popular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources the...

Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy uses sociological explanations to describe how the school system in the United States developed, and why reform is a constant. The American public school system is elemental to the reproduction of society's ideals...

Although journalism has always been an important vehicle of collective memory, it has been neglected in discussions about how memory works. This fascinating book aims to correct that disjuncture, by tracking the ways in which journalism and shared memory...

Cinema's influence on games is a widely researched topic within digital media and games studies, yet the impact that computer games have had on film is still largely under-explored. Gaming Film sets out to redress this imbalance, examining a wide array...

This book examines the evolution and journey of regional language television channels in India. The first of its kind, it looks at the coverage, uniqueness, ownership, and audiences of regional channels in 14 different languages across India, covering...

This volume examines fifty of the most important video games that have contributed significantly to the history, development, or culture of the medium, providing an overview of video games from their beginning to the present day.This volume covers a...

As the Internet has reshaped the way we communicate, people's reading has become more fragmented and attention has been directed to a more concise and general form of language that outlines the most important information. This language of the internet, a...

Blason Populaire de la France est un ouvrage intéressant pour toute personne intéressée par la culture et les traditions françaises. Les auteurs Henri Gaidoz et Paul Sébillot ont rassemblé et expliqué des centaines de blasons, y compris leur origine et...

Esta publicación traza la historia de la introducción de encajes españoles en el Paraguay por las mujeres que lo poblaron durante el tiempo de la colonia y delinea el proceso evolutivo en la creación del ñandutí, este particular encaje paraguayo. También...

NOTE: This edition is no longer spiral bound.Elixirs Exotica! More lost recipes from the Golden Age of the Tiki Bar from the Polynesian Pop Scholar and Mixologist Jeff Berry, co-author of the praised Beach Bum Berry's Grog Log - dubbed "the best bar...

The waltz, perhaps the most beloved social dance of the 19th and early 20th centuries, once provoked outrage from religious leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of social morality. Decrying the corrupting influence of social dancing, they failed...

This is a study of obesity in America from 1850 to 1939, concentrating on how the condition was viewed, studied, and treated. It examines the images and stereotypes that were associated with fatness, the various remedies that were proposed for the...

The first generation of American television programmers had few choices of Saturday morning children's offerings. That changed dramatically in 1963 when a Japanese animated television series called Tetsuan Atom was acquired for distribution by NBC...

One of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dogs, the Saluki traveled throughout the Middle East with desert tribes, who valued the dogs for their ability to hunt gazelles. Famously painted on the walls of the Pharaohs' tombs, the Salukis' history...

Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous "atomic narratives"--books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, movies, and television programs--addressed the implications of the bomb. Post-World War II youth encountered atomic...

"For a two week period in 1956, residents in the vicinity of Taipei, Taiwan, lived in fear that they would be the next victims of a crazed villain who was prowling the streets and slashing people at random with a razor or similar weapon. At least 21...

The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for students. A revised introduction explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies brings together important articles by leading thinkers to provide an essential guide to the...

This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on 'deviant' social groups to the present day reasearch and theories.This...