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  • Media-Mediated Relationships

    Straight and Gay, Mainstream and Alternative Perspectives

    by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Linda K Fuller ...
    Creating a nexus between techno-science and more fundamental disciplines, a phenomenon is emerging in our personal lives: we are beginning to preempt traditional sources for relationship formation; we are becoming more insular and more cautious in starting relationships. The media play an enormous role in our activities, encouraging us to self-advertise in newspapers and magazines, to participate ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films

    Dark Parades

    by Carl Royer, B Lee Cooper ...
    Go behind the scenes with an insightful look at horror filmsand the directors who create themThe Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades examines the work of several of the genre’s most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and transformation have helped build the foundation of horror cinema. Authors Carl and Diana Royer examine ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Popular Culture

    Cavespace to Cyberspace

    by Frank Hoffmann, Marshall Fishwick, B Lee Cooper ...
    A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Rock Music in American Popular Culture II

    More Rock 'n' Roll Resources

    by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Wayne S Haney, Beulah B Ramirez ...
    From “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?” to a list of all song titles containing the word “werewolf,” Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources continues where 1995’s Volume I left off. Using references and illustrations drawn from contemporary lyrics and supported by historical and sociological research on popular cultural subjects, this collection of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Christmas Carol Reader

    by William E Studwell, Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper ...
    Like that Biblical, astronomical star of Bethlehem, The Christmas Carol Reader guides readers on their quest for information about Christmas songs. Studwell gathers a composite picture of the world's most important and famous carols and includes an ample selection of lesser-known Christmas songs. All of the carols are presented in their historical and cultural contexts which adds to readers ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rock Music in American Popular Culture III

    More Rock 'n' Roll Resources

    by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Wayne S Haney ...
    Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources explores the fascinating world of rock music and examines how this medium functions as an expression of cultural and social identity. This nostalgic guide explores the meanings and messages behind some of the most popular rock ’n’roll songs that captured the American spirit, mirrored society, and reflected events in our ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

    The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

    by Gordana Crnkovic, Steinar Bryn, B Lee Cooper, Laura E. Cooper, Gordana P. Crnkovic, Marianne Debouzy, Herbert J. Eagle, C Anthony Giffard, Giulia Guarnieri, Beth Holmgren, Beverly James, Uta G. Poiger, Sabrina P. Ramet, Rodney Stark ...
    Observing European debates about EuroDisney, McDonald's, Hollywood films and television programs, and other vehicles of alleged 'Americanization,' one might imagine that Europe was in serious risk of losing its distinct cultural identity in the melting pot of American pop culture. The loaded charge of 'kitsch' is a central aspect of the debate, with Disney stories, for example, branded as ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Rock Music in American Popular Culture

    Rock 'n' Roll Resources

    by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Wayne S Haney ...
    How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items can be used to explore American values. This fascinating book is arranged alphabetically for ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Popular American Recording Pioneers

    1895-1925

    by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Tim Gracyk ...
    Encounter the trailblazers whose recordings expanded the boundaries of technology and brought “popular” music into America's living rooms!Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925 (winner of the 2001 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research) covers the lives and careers of over one hundred musical artists who were especially ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll:An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

    by Elijah Wald ...
    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hiphop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Blues: The Basics

    by Dick Weissman ...
    Series series The Basics
    Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes:a definition of the blues and the major genres within itkey artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jeffersonkey recordingsComplete with timelines ... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Becoming Richard Pryor

    by Scott Saul ...
    A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family’s brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape the hard-bitten realities of his childhood, but later came to a reverberating discovery: that by plunging into the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD