Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
Hardback. Offers a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. This book critiques on the existing models field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284623
- ISBN
- 9780520284623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 73.14
€ 94.08
€ 73.14
Paperback. Explores the influence of immigrant cultures on the capital's music scene. This title tells the story of the music and the larger-than-life characters making it, journeying from Soho jazz clubs to Brixton blues parties to King's Cross warehouse raves to the streets of Notting Hill - and onto sound systems everywhere. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJP; 3JMC; AVG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 39. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846687617
- ISBN
- 9781846687617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.84
€ 19.99
€ 14.84
Paperback. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; AVGH; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820347370
- ISBN
- 9780820347370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.24
€ 38.24
Paperback. This work investigates the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual of honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 378 pages, 63 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AS; AVGD; AVGW; HRE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226905860
- ISBN
- 9780226905860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.33
€ 52.99
€ 41.33
Paperback. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368. Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture. 262 pages, illustrations. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258990
- ISBN
- 9780520258990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Hardcover. Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGQ; JFSK1; JFSK2; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472071791
- ISBN
- 9780472071791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.83
€ 116.83
Paperback. Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. This text seeks to examine these technologies, arguing that they allow us to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: ANH; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115179
- ISBN
- 9780231115179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.61
€ 36.99
€ 27.61
Paperback. Gives an account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a recording studio in Johannesburg. This work analyzes how the politics surrounding Zulu ethnic nationalism impacted mbaqanga artists' decisions of the studio. It explores how the global consumption of Afropop and African images fed back into mbaqanga during the recording process. Num Pages: 352 pages, 31 illus., incl. 9 in color. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVGE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330141
- ISBN
- 9780822330141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Hardback. The essays of Sound Matters investigate the ways in which texts, artists, and performers in all kinds of media have utilized sonic materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural and national identity. Editor(s): Alter, Nora M.; Koepnick, Lutz. Num Pages: 256 pages, Bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571814364
- ISBN
- 9781571814364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.49
€ 161.49
Paperback. Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions. Editor(s): Suisman, David; Strasser, Susan. Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222296
- ISBN
- 9780812222296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.93
€ 36.99
€ 33.93
Paperback. org. Editor(s): Keeling, Kara; Kun, Josh. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 440 pages, 29, 29 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405711
- ISBN
- 9781421405711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.11
€ 50.11
Paperback. Originally published 35 years ago, 'Soulside' has become a classic of urban anthropology. It dispelled many false impressions about ghetto life and questioned the idea of a 'culture of poverty'. In a new afterword, Hannerz discusses the book's place in both past and present contexts. Num Pages: 236 pages, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 182 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226315768
- ISBN
- 9780226315768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.81
€ 31.99
€ 24.81
paperback. 100th anniversary edition of this classic of African American history. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594510052
- ISBN
- 9781594510052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Explains how and why Judeoconversos built and rebuilt their religious and social identities, and what it meant to them to be both Jewish and Christian given the constraints they faced in their time and place in history. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBG; HBLH; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237498
- ISBN
- 9780812237498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.95
€ 76.95
Paperback. Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108974
- ISBN
- 9780230108974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.43€ 49.60
€ 76.43
€ 49.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811713795
- ISBN
- 9780811713795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.65
€ 31.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585429479
- ISBN
- 9781585429479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.06
€ 17.99
€ 16.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AVGQ; BM; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807057520
- ISBN
- 9780807057520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 20.31
€ 32.99
€ 20.31
Hardcover. As social scientists, we are called to investigate society. A powerful component of understanding society can be found when researching the lives of children and youth. This volume provides a glimpse into these lives. Editor(s): Warehime, Mary Nicole. Series: Sociological Studies of Children & Youth. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784410605
- ISBN
- 9781784410605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 246.00
€ 246.00
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Gibson Square Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908096210
- ISBN
- 9781908096210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.95
€ 16.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 halftones, 1 line drawing, 4 maps, 22 recipes, 11 sidebars. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469632421
- ISBN
- 9781469632421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.53
€ 25.99
€ 25.53
Paperback. Editor(s): Feldman, Christina. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 264 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- HarperOne
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062514424
- ISBN
- 9780062514424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.55
€ 26.99
€ 23.55
Paperback. This work tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving into heart of the domestic slave trade, the slave market. Taking the reader inside the New Orleans slave market the author transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005396
- ISBN
- 9780674005396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.67
€ 34.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history and covers topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the impact of John Coltrane's jazz to the tenets of the Black Panther Party and the music of Motown. Editor(s): Bracey, Jr. John H.; Sanchez, Sonia; Smethurst, James. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 183 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1400.
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781625340313
- ISBN
- 9781625340313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.19
€ 43.19