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  • The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music

    Scene, Identity and Myth

    Edited by Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman, Andy Bennett ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Popular Music and Place
    This collection is a unique exploration of the heritage and legacy of the Canterbury Sound: a signature style emerging in the 1960s that draws upon psychedelic music, progressive rock, jazz and pop to capture the real and imagined interactions between people, place and music.The volume recounts the stories, and explores the significance, of the Canterbury Sound as heritage, ongoing legacy and ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Popular Music Ethnographies

    Practices, Places and Identities

    Edited by Sarah Raine, Shane Blackman, Robert McPherson, Iain A. Taylor ...
    Series Book 3 - BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research
    This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. In exploring the experiences of musicians, fans, industry professionals and academics, the rich complexity of popular music is brought to life through ethnography as an immersive approach to undertaking and communicating research.Experimenting with ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Youth Marginality in Britain

    Contemporary Studies of Austerity

    by Anthony Rudd, Robert Mcpherson, Frances Atherton, Jane Mckay, Sean Murphy, Emma Davidson, Claire Tupling, Patrick Ainley, Jenny van Krieken Robson, Lucy Williams, Kim Robinson, L. Ling, Alistair Fraser, L. Whittaker, Susan Anusas Batchelor, Mary Jane Kehily, Linda Brooks, Eldin Fahmy, Peter Squires ...
    Tabloid headlines such as ‘Anti-social Feral Youth,’ ‘Vile Products of Welfare in the UK’ and ‘One in Four Adolescents is a Criminal’ have in recent years obscured understanding of what social justice means for young people and how they experience it. Youth marginality in Britain offers a new perspective by promoting young people’s voices and understanding the agency behind their actions. It ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Young People, Class and Place

    Edited by Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick, Shane Blackman ...
    Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people’s lives – and for social science. Drawing upon new, empirically grounded, theoretically innovative studies, this volume begs to differ.It argues that the youth phase provides a privileged vantage point from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Science of Attitudes

    by Joel Cooper, Shane Blackman, Kyle Keller ...
    The Science of Attitudes is the first book to integrate classic and modern research in the field of attitudes at a scholarly level. Designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the presentation of research will also be useful for current scholars in all disciplines who are interested in how attitudes are formed and changed. The treatment of attitudes is both thorough and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Subcultural Imagination

    Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Contemporary Youth Cultures

    Edited by Shane Blackman, Michelle Kempson ...
    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young people in different subcultural settings, as well as reflecting on how young people in subcultures ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Undoing Privilege

    Unearned Advantage in a Divided World

    by Professor Bob Pease ...
    For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Beeswing

    Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

    by Richard Thompson ...
    A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.”—The Wall Street JournalNow Featuring an Interview with Elvis CostelloIn this moving, immersive, and long-awaited memoir, beloved international music legend ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Aftermath of Feminism

    Gender, Culture and Social Change

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    Series series Culture, Representation and Identity series
    In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and ′affirmative feminism′ and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the ′end′ of feminism, this book argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilisation are being re-established. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Electric Eden

    Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

    by Rob Young ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleIn the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and Nick Drake are known as "folk rock" today, but Rob Young's epic, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The People’s Songs

    The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, a song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • The Men and the Boys

    by Raewyn Connell ...
    In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists have begun to ... Read more

    $28.95 USD