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  • I Have Loved Me a Man

    The Life and Times of Mika

    by Sharon Mazer ...
    I Have Loved Me a Man takes readers inside the social revolution that has moved New Zealand from the 1960s to the present day through the story of the queer Maori performance artist, Mika. Adopted into a white family, Mika learnt Maori culture from the back of a cereal box. He discovered disco in the 1970s, worked with Carmen, Dalvanius Prime, and others to develop outrageous stage shows, and came ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Professional Wrestling

    Sport and Spectacle, Second Edition

    by Sharon Mazer ...
    Series series Performance Studies Series
    Professional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. The displays of violence, simulated and actual, may be the obvious appeal, but that is just the beginning. Fans debate performance choices with as much energy as they argue about their favorite wrestlers. The ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Performance in Popular Culture

    by Sharon Mazer ...
    Performance in Popular Culture reveals the intricate relationship between performance and popular culture by exploring how theatrical conventions and dramaturgical tropes have informed the way the social is constructed for popular consumption.Staged as a series of case studies, this book considers the diverse ways the social is imagined and produced in live and mediated performances, in images and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Steel Chair to the Head

    The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling

    by Roland Barthes, Henry Jenkins III, Sharon Mazer, Carlos Monsivais ...
    The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of wrestling as a unique cultural form, the latest in a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Professional Wrestling

    Sport and Spectacle

    by Sharon Mazer ...
    Professional wrestling is often seen as a suspect sport and marginal entertainment. It is also one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. That its display of violence is at once simulated and actual is part of the appeal for the fans who debate performance choices with as much ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Professional Wrestling

    Sport and Spectacle, Second Edition

    by Sharon Mazer ...
    Series series Performance Studies Series
    Professional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. The displays of violence, simulated and actual, may be the obvious appeal, but that is just the beginning. Fans debate performance choices with as much energy as they argue about their favorite wrestlers. The ... Read more

    $178.19 USD

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  • The Squared Circle

    Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling

    by David Shoemaker ...
    Grantland and Deadspin correspondent presents a breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact that does for the sport what Chuck Klosterman did for heavy metal.The Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column “Dead Wrestler of the Week” (which boasts over 1 million page views) -- a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Vince McMahon: The Unauthorized Biography of the WWE Chairman

    by Michael Essany ...
    "Vince McMahon: The Unauthorized Biography of the WWE Chairman" is a first of its kind comprehensive exploration of the life, controversies, and legacy of Vince McMahon from national bestselling author Michael Essany.From McMahon's impoverished upbringing with an abusive stepfather to his Napoleon-like conquests as a brash young wrestling promoter, WWE fans can relive the remarkable and unlikely ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born to Use Mics

    Reading Nas's Illmatic

    Edited by Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai ...
    At the age of nineteen, Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album -- and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. With its close attention to beats and lyricism, and riveting first-person explorations of the isolation and desolation of urban poverty, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Know What I Mean?

    Reflections on Hip-Hop

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Air Guitar

    Essays on Art and Democracy

    by Dave Hickey ...
    The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depict. Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z

    A Library of America Special Publication

    Edited by Jonathan Lethem, Kevin Dettmar ...
    The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legendsJonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal ... Read more

    $17.99 USD