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  • Old Roots, New Routes

    The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music

    Edited by Pamela Fox, Barbara Ching ...
    Old Roots, New Routes takes an in-depth look at the many influences, meanings, and identities of this contemporary music form. Because the definition of the term alt.country changes continually, even the genre's own mouthpiece, the Web site nodepression.com, declared its terrain to be "alternative country (whatever that is)." Despite alt.country's murky parameters, its origins, indeed, its patron ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Wrong's What I Do Best

    Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture

    by Barbara Ching ...
    This is the first study of "hard" country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music. Barbara Ching begins by defining the features that make certain country songs and artists "hard." She compares hard country music to "high" American culture, arguing that hard country deliberately focuses on its low position in the American cultural ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • The Scandal of Susan Sontag

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects-theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness-and courted celebrity and controversy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Reimagining Rural

    Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

    by Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Leanne M. Avery, Karl A. Jicha, Brian M. Lowe, Pilar Erin McKay, John W. Sipple, Barbara Ching, Karen E. Hayden0 ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Studies in Urbanormativity

    Rural Community in Urban Society

    by Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Polly Smith, Elizabeth Seale, Stephanie Bennett, Chris Stapel, Gretchen Thompson, R. V. Rikard, Curtis Stofferahn0, Gerald Creed1, Robert Moxley2, Thomas Gray3, Laura McKinney4, Karl A. Jicha5, Karen E. Hayden6, Aimee Vieira7, Barbara Ching8 ...
    The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Knowing Your Place

    Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed ...
    Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    by Shilpi Somaya Gowda ...
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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • What Fanon Said

    A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

    by Lewis R. Gordon, Drucilla Cornell ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the ... Read more

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  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
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  • Urban Outcasts

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    by Loïc Wacquant ...
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