Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
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
€ 32.99€ 27.35
€ 32.99
€ 27.35
Hardback. 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: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108912
- ISBN
- 9780230108912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.44
€ 65.44
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
€ 77.23€ 49.22
€ 77.23
€ 49.22
Hardback. Soul music and country music propel American popular culture. Using ethnomusicological tools, Shonekan examines their socio-cultural influences and consequences: the perception of and resistance to hegemonic structures from within their respective constituencies, the definition of national identity, and the understanding of the 'American Dream.' Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; AVGQ; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378095
- ISBN
- 9781137378095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98
Num Pages: 368 pages, tables and figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLM; JFSP2; JFSP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195371796
- ISBN
- 9780195371796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.96
€ 61.96
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
€ 51.03
€ 51.03
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
€ 48.39
€ 48.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; JFC; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403964243
- ISBN
- 9781403964243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.26
€ 123.26
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
€ 155.12
€ 155.12
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€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
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
€ 37.99€ 27.55
€ 37.99
€ 27.55
Paperback. Investigates how effective good media coverage for American activists is during political campaigns Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPVL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814741375
- ISBN
- 9780814741375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
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€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
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€ 41.09
€ 52.99
€ 41.09
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
€ 38.37
€ 38.37
Paperback. This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. Editor(s): Lashua, Brett; Spracklen, Karl; Wagg, Stephen. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFC; JFSR; JHB; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448906
- ISBN
- 9781349448906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.48
€ 46.48
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€ 14.68
€ 19.99
€ 14.68
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
€ 95.09€ 72.45
€ 95.09
€ 72.45
Paperback. 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: 231 x 194 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284630
- ISBN
- 9780520284630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.86
€ 33.99
€ 24.86