Popular Culture

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyda...

Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. ...

Nick Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threa...

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. M...

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in par...

Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query is he musical? become code, in the twentiet...

This book provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like ...

An easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive beginner's guide to drawing.In The Complete Guide to Drawing for Beginners, experienced art instructor Yoshiko...

Popular culture is as debated as it is pervasive. It is pervasive in that the symbolic worlds in which we live and out of which we construct sense...

Darth Vader is learning that being a Sith lord and dedicated father to Princess Leia isn't quite so easy...In this irresistibly funny follow-up to ...

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, sta...

Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer'The future's already here...

Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedi...

''''In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It''''s a foundation of British music.'''' - StormzyShortlisted fo...

As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of economic inequality and the entrenchment of new class distinctions lend a ne...