Cultural Studies

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic...

This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so throu...

The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many people love things ...

A celebration of failures, doom, disaster, mistakes, miscalculations, hubris, folly and really, really bad albums. Written by the author of the cul...

How do we explain the breakthrough market success of businesses like Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, and Jack Daniel's? Conventional models of ...

A new and wide-ranging view of the confluence, since the 1990s, of the fields of contemporary literature and popular music in Germany. In German...

In Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philoso...

This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists, and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles ...

Exploring the role of cannabis in medicine, politics, history, and society, The Pot Bookoffers a compendium of the most up-to-date information and ...

Santa Claus, singing cowboys, love, hymns, satire, snow, Bing and Dean and Frank, fictional reindeer and warbling chipmunks: American Christmas mus...

Why do so many Americans practice martial arts? How did kung fu get its own movie genre? What makes mixed martial arts so popular? This book ans...

We Are the Baby-Sitters Club is the ultimate companion guide for a generation of devout superfans. This book revisits the beloved series through gr...

This deluxe limited edition of The Photography of Game of Thrones contains a beautiful 96-page full-color photography booklet featuring stunning po...

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaningacross genres, disciplines, methodologies, and timefrom foundational texts to the most rec...

There are zombies among us! From the rotting hordes of TV''s The Walking Dead to the blockbuster nightmare of 28 Days Later, our popular culture is...

In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist, and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies, and practice-led re...