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Redefining Mainstream Popular Music critically examines the idea of the mainstream in and across a variety of popular music contexts. It is a collection of 17 essays, with the objective to conceptually reframe the mainstream by exploring the relationship between a variety of cultural practices, popular music styles and the context within which they emerge. It explores the nebulous and often problematic use of the term; the reactionary and oppositional articulations of those who distinguish themselves from it; the contingent and conflicting aesthetic and practical operations that the...

A Level Media Studies for Students and Teachers presents a comprehensive guide to the learning and teaching of Media Studies at A-Level across all UK specifications. The textbook takes an accessible and integrative approach to the subject and acts a resource for both students and teachers of Media Studies. A clear linear structure helps to develop understanding and analysis with key ideas being introduced and explored from a range of different angles. Concepts are reinforced and developed via a series of activities, marginal notes, 'breakout' sections, with key debates highlighted...

In an increasingly ethnically diverse society, debates about migration, community, cultural difference and social interaction have never been more pressing.

Drawing on the findings from a two-year, qualitative Economic and Social Research Council funded study of different locations across England, Lived Experiences of Multiculture uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the ways in which complex urban populations experience, negotiate, accommodate and resist cultural difference as they share a range of everyday social resources and public spaces. The authors present...