Popular Culture

Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology o...

Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial, alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (i...

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is thi...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Sports have taken on tremendous importance in the world in which we live. Their social significance - economic, political, and personal - both nati...

Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Ameri...

The Beatles White Album and the Launch of Apple is the tenth book on the Beatles by critically acclaimed Beatles author/historian Bruce Spizer. His...

Inspired by the events seen in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this book is a charming journey through key scenes from the film, showing ...

A remarkable compendium of diverse and evocative imagery exploring the wide-ranging and profound associations of the five natural elements, masterf...

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effec...

In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups in Latin American society, bringing...

Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies, instigated by television streaming services s...