The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes.
A wide range of international contributors featuring some of the biggest names in popular music and cultural studies including Philip Auslander, Paul Gilroy and Kodwo Eshun and discuss:
* the increasing participation of women in the industry * the changing role of gender and sexuality in popular music * the role of new technologies, especially in production and distribution * the...
The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expande...
Parlay will enable rapid and cost-effective delivery of services based on telecommunications networks, and will be an essential part of the 3G future.
We live in an exciting time. 3G networks are taking off, and as greater bandwidth and communication speeds become available, people are seeking new means by which to increase their interaction potential. Newer and more exciting services are being developed to drive more revenues and to enhance end-user experiences. New technologies are being designed and implemented to supplement and leverage the new capabilities being built into core...
Parlay will enable rapid and cost-effective delivery of services based on telecommunications networks, and will be an essential part of the 3G futu...
This volume presents an overview of the key theoretical models applied in the study of contemporary cultural practices and their application in everyday settings. It shows how academic thinking about mass culture has evolved.
This volume presents an overview of the key theoretical models applied in the study of contemporary cultural practices and their application in everyd...
Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Andy Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how academic thinking about mass culture has changed, from critical accounts of early mass cultural theorists to radical postmodernist critiques of mass cultural accounts and to 'the cultural turn', which explored how various social identities are culturally...
Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice...
These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicuous sites where clusters of musicians, producers, and fans explore their common musical tastes and distinctive lifestyle choices. Although most music scenes come and go with hardly a trace, they nevertheless give immense satisfaction to their participants, and a few--New York bop jazz, Merseybeat, Memphis rockabilly, London punk, Bronx hip-hop--achieve fame and spur musical innovations. To date, serious study of the scenes phenomenon has focused mainly on specific music scenes while...
These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicuous sites where clusters of musicians, p...
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...
Redefining Mainstream Popular Music critically examines the idea of the mainstream in and across a variety of popular music contexts. It is a colle...
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology.
A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides invaluable summaries of key studies and approaches within cultural sociology
Clearly written and designed, with accessible summaries of thematic topics, covering race, class,...
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociologica...
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology.
A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides invaluable summaries of key studies and approaches within cultural sociology
Clearly written and designed, with accessible summaries of thematic topics, covering race, class,...
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociologica...
aThe image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. aIn his timely book "Music, Style, and Aging," cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular music. For many aging followers of rock, punk, and other contemporary popular genres, music is ingrained in their identities. aIts meaning is highly personal and intertwined with the individual's biographical development. aBennett studies these fans and how they have changed over time--through fashions, hairstyles, body...
aThe image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. aIn his timely book "Music, Style, and A...
