Contending that the media has become the primary vehicle of Italian sensibilities, this book explores a series of books, movies, paintings, and records in ten dramatic vignettes.
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking show, Diva L.A.: A Salute to L.A.'s Latinas in the Tanda Style.
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking show, Diva L.A.: A Salute to L.A.'s Latinas in the Tanda Style.
By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, this title includes essays that bring Asian American studies, in all its richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. It is suitable for understanding Asian American popular culture and also contemporary US culture writ large.
By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, this title includes essays that bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. It is suitable for understanding Asian American popular culture and also contemporary US culture writ large.
This Reader provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary papers on Popular Culture. Key works from Adorno to Williams are included, as well as a wide range of contemporary and international perspectives that engage with the dynamic changes that combine to generate 'popular culture' today. Rai Guins and Omayra Cruz offer a resource with which to understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as; A product of industry; An intellectual object of inquiry; An integral component of people's lives. The volume is divided into 7 thematic sections, and each section is preceded by an introduction which engages with, and critiques, the chapters that follow.
This Reader provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary papers on Popular Culture. Key works from Adorno to Williams are included, as well as a wide range of contemporary and international perspectives that engage with the dynamic changes that combine to generate 'popular culture' today. Rai Guins and Omayra Cruz offer a resource with which to understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as; A product of industry; An intellectual object of inquiry; An integral component of people's lives. The volume is divided into 7 thematic sections, and each section is preceded by an introduction which engages with, and critiques, the chapters that follow.
'The cultural turn' has failed to produce an effective revision of the concept of subculture. This timely and illuminating book reverses this situation providing a much needed revision of this important concept. It traces subculture back to its foundations in the works of Tonnies and Durkheim and, to a lesser extent, Marx and Weber. The discussion ......
