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  • Vassar College 2012

    by Sam Murray ...
    College guides written by students for students.Vassar College Students Tell It Like It IsThis insider guide to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics, and insider tips from students on campus. Written by a student at Vassar, this guidebook gives you the inside scoop on everything ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Possibility Machine

    Music and Myth in Las Vegas

    by Jake Johnson, Celine Ayala, Kirstin Bews, Laura Dallman, Joanna Dee Das, James Deaville, Robert Fink, Pheaross Graham, Jessica A Holmes, Maddie House-Tuck0, Kelly Kessler1, Michael Kinney2, Carlo Lanfossi3, Jason Leddington4, Janis McKay5, Sam Murray6, Louis Niebur7, Lynda Paul8, Arianne Johnson Quinn9, Michael M Reinhard0, Laura Risk1, Cassaundra Rodriguez2, Arreanna Rostosky3, Brian F Wright4 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Singular and star-studded writings on America’s neon-lit playgroundAt once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning hand. Jake Johnson edits a collection of short essays and flash ideas that probes how music-making and soundscapes shape the City of Second Chances. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983

    by Tim Lawrence ...
    As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • We See Each Other

    A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    by Tre'vell Anderson ...
    A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • To Be An Artist

    by Camille Colatosti ...
    To Be An Artist is a conversation with today’s successful and prominent artists from a variety of disciplinesâ€"musicians, visual artists, digital artists, poets, writers, activists and scholars. All of them discuss what it means to be an artist today, how they perceive their craft and their world, and the role of art in society. They agree that artists’ creativity and success come not only ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Screwball Television

    Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls

    Edited by David Diffrient, David Lavery ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other, ... Read more

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  • From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium

    by Justin Elizabeth Sayre ...
    This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre!Based on Sayre's five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is a humorous collection of the rich legacy of gay culture, told through the letters of the alphabet. From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, Sayre offers their own ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Love for Sale

    Pop Music in America

    by David Hajdu ...
    Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and BBC. "One of our sharpest music critics . . . recounts a life immersed in pop music. An engaging history." — The Wall Street JournalIn Love for Sale, David Hajdu—one of the most respected critics and music historians of our time—draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • World Film Locations: Las Vegas

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers – and starry-eyed lovers – each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many apparent contradictions as Elvis impersonators and this complexity is reflected in the diversity of films that have been shot on location there.A ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dusty!

    Queen of the Postmods

    by Annie J. Randall ...
    Dubbed the "White Queen of Soul," singer Dusty Springfield became the first British soloist to break into the U.S. Top Ten music charts with her 1964 hit "I Only Want To Be With You"--a pop classic followed by many others, including "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "Son of a Preacher Man." Today she is usually placed within the history of the Beatles-led "British Invasion" or seen as a ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Black Diamond Queens

    African American Women and Rock and Roll

    by Maureen Mahon ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Essential HBO Reader

    by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: "Recommended." — ChoiceThe founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as ... Read more

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