Popular Culture

Big Beat was once one of the biggest, but ironically, perhaps most misunderstood musical movements of the Mid-Late 1990's, lead by some of the bigg...

A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys-Best Comedy Series and Best Director. Capitalizing on ...

Young people have long used popular culture to explore, define and express who they are. For many, popular culture is also a tool of survival. G...

Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cul...

From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere entertainment. The or...

Although known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first ...

Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samuel Johnson school, doesn'...

India's population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own cultur...

Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant p...

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo...

Break out the candy canes! Holly Jolly is a colorful sleigh ride through the history of Christmas, from its religious origins to its emergence as a...

__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account...

''A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes'' Guardian''Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture, illuminat...

This book offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over th...

In this remarkable book, David-Emil Wickström traces the transcultural flow of popular music production emanating from St. Petersburg, a central hu...