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What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while...

Race and music seem fatally entwined in a way that involves both creative ethnic hybridity and ongoing problems of racism. This book presents a sociological analysis of this enduring relationship and asks: how are ideas of race critical to the...

Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a...

For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western literary and folkloric traditions are filled with both speaking animals, some of whom even narrate or write their...

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English...

Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India...

The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the...

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of...

Praise for the first edition:'No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.' - Stanley Cohen, The Times Higher Education Supplement 'The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies deserves our gratitude for...

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the...

From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa's most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed...

Running a professional sports franchise is the dream of many, but the nightmare of some. For one American playboy named Cain Shaw, fantasy is clashing with reality.While everyone occasionally feels like their world is being torn apart at the seams, the...

In the last fifty years, Germany has developed into an immigration society. Incities such as Hamburg and Bremen, the percentage of foreign born citizenshas reached almost 20% of the population. Politicians, sociologists and educatorsoften speak of the...

Berlin is a city with a unique and challenging past as well as a promising futurein the new Europe. At the city's oldest and most hallowed site, EastGerman authorities tore down the war-damaged "Stadtschloss" in 1950 anderected the "Palast der Republik"...

The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the nature, form and impactof the information and communication technologies in current times. Itinvestigates the context, nature and outcomes of Islamists' use of theInternet, their experiences, challenges...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Im Spiegel der Gegenwart - Soziologie um die Jahrhundertwende , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Der...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit geht am Beispiel der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft bzw. ihrer Verbandszeitung, der...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Sportwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine Folge der stetigen gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen,...

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ausgehend vor der insbesondere in Amerika geführten Diskussion über Medienwirkungen als...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld (Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Fragestellung,...

Life after college isn't as seen on TV: Jen's low-paying job is uninspiring, her boyfriend won't commit, and she just got evicted. The most exercise she gets comes from dodging debt collectors. Then she spies an ad seeking competitors for a new...

How midcentury periodicals that fostered an indelible middle-class ideal for American women also confronted the happy homemaker stereotypeRead by millions of women each month, such mainstream periodicals as Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's delivered...

Van Johnson's dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s he was popularized as the bobbysoxer's heartthrob.He won the nation's heart, too, by appearing in a series of...

Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says, “Shazam!,” he becomes Captain Marvel, the...

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

We must do something to end the sleaze and dumbing-down of our culture. We must protect our children from all the garbage spewing out of Hollywood, TV, and from the violent video games-such as Pokemon. Christians, and all persons of good will (from all...

"I don't remember when I first articulated my goal of singing karaoke in all fifty states, but for a while it was all I had. Then my best friend died, and my half-hearted conversation piece of a goal was suddenly a driving need."Kris Gowen had a...

How and why does a catastrophic disaster change public discourse and social narratives? This is the first book to comprehensively investigate how Japanese newspapers, TV, documentary films, independent journalists, scientists, and intellectuals from the...

Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study.The...

Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides...

Explores the relationship between sport and national identities within the context of globalization in the modern era.

Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.

Examines photography and its contribution to changing notions of the body in modernity.

Right after Pearl Harbor, the author joined the Marines at 17. After boot camp, he went to the First Marine Division, taking part in some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific, including the landing on Okinawa where he was wounded. Fighting under...

This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction,...

From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the height of its popularity, the strip ran in more than 2,400 newspapers and generated a fan base...

Seventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientific understanding of Mars, and the relationship between that understanding and the role of Mars in literature, the arts and popular culture. Essays in the first section examine different...

This excursion into American cultural history looks at the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. During these years, America moved from cleaning their teeth mostly with homemade powders to using an enormous array of brands, often...

This work offers a complete episode guide and comprehensive history of Second City Television. The influential Canadian sketch comedy series created dozens of memorable characters (i.e. station president Guy Caballero and showbiz mogul Johnny LaRue)...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This 2nd Edition (printed version), includes the Line of Succession of the House of Hapsburg and more info on the process to create the model horses. Note: The ebook is the 1st Edition.This Golden Carriage was manufactured by the Armbruster Company of...