Popular Culture

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues suc...

Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses ...

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix assembles 50 previously published articles to orient students and scholars alike to current directions in the ...

How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music maki...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contempora...

In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse pr...

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval an...

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of ...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. I...

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shi...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

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...

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic int...