Hidden Cities Understanding Urban Popcultures

Author : Leonard Koos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881037
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Cities: Understanding Urban Popcultures written by Leonard Koos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richly varied phenomenon of urban popcultures, through distinctive practices and forms, has significantly marked the life of modern city.

Author : Moritz Ege
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000877388
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism written by Moritz Ege and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements. Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as much as they shape pop cultural and media trends. Populists, right-wing authoritarian ones and others, direct their anger at cultural, political and, sometimes, economic elites while supporting other elites and creating new ones. At the same time, "elitist" knowledge and expertise, decision-making power and taste regimes are being questioned in societal transformations that are discussed much more positively under headlines such as participation or democratization. The book brings together a group of international, interdisciplinary case studies in order to better understand the ways in which the battle cry "against the elites" shapes current conjunctures and possible future politics, focusing on themes such as nationalist political discourse in India, Austria, the UK and Hungary, labour struggles and anti-oligarchy rhetoric in Russia, tax-avoiding elites and fiscal imaginaries, working-class agency, Melania Trump as a celebrity narrative in Slovenia, aesthetic codes of the Alt-Right, football hooliganism in Germany, "hipster hate" in German political discourse or the politics of expertise and anti-elite iconography in high fashion internationally. The book is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446591
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the international cast of contributors to this volume being “in fashion” is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft manufacturing, packaging, marketing, and archives.

Author : Heike Steinhoff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501370391
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hipster Culture written by Heike Steinhoff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first century popular culture has given birth to a peculiar cultural figure: the hipster. Stereotypically associated with nerd glasses, beards and buns, boho clothing, and ironic T-shirts, hipsters represent a (post-)postmodern (post-)subculture whose style, aesthetics, and practices have increasingly become mainstream. Hipster Culture is the first comprehensive collection of original studies that address the hipster and hipster culture from a range of cultural studies perspectives. Analyzing the cultural, economic, aesthetic, and political meanings and implications of a wide range of phenomena prominently associated with hipster culture, the contributors bring their expertise and own research perspectives to bear, thus shaping the volume's transnational and intersectional approach. Chapters address global and local manifestations of hipster culture, processes of urban gentrification and cultural appropriation, alternative foodways and eclectic fashion styles, the significance of nostalgia, retro technologies and social media, and the aesthetics and cultural politics of literature, film, art, and music marked by self-reflexivity, irony, and a simultaneous longing for an earnest authenticity. Hipster Culture explores the diversification of hipster culture, sheds light on popular constructions of the hipster as cultural Other, and critically investigates hipster culture's entanglements with and challenges to dominant cultural discourses of gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, age, religion, and nationality.

Author : Abiodun Salawu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030978842
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1 written by Abiodun Salawu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist. ​

Author : Leonard Koos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881770
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Cultural Capitals: Urban Pop Cultures in Focus written by Leonard Koos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an inter-disciplinary study of urban pop cultural imagination in the modern metropolis. The authors engage in discussions on the nature of urban popular cultures and the ways by which we understand and appreciate urban existence.

Author : Leonard Koos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004373921
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Cultural Capitals written by Leonard Koos and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316267937
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zoo City written by Lauren Beukes and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new paperback edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi's forced to take on her least favorite kind of job--missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives--including her own.

Author : Jacque Lynn Foltyn
Publisher : At the Interface / Probing the
ISBN 13 : 9789004446588
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Fashion written by Jacque Lynn Foltyn and published by At the Interface / Probing the. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the contributors to In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity being "in fashion" is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft, manufacturing, packaging, marketing and archives. The book's international cast of authors engage "in" fashion from various disciplinary, professional, and creative perspectives; i.e., anthropology, archaeology, art history, cultural studies, design, environmental studies, fashion studies, history, international relations, literature, marketing, philosophy, sociology, technology, and theatre. In Fashion has five sections: Fashioning Representations: Texts, Images, and Performances; Fashionable: Shopping, Luxury, and Vintage; Fashion's Materials: Craft, Industry, and Innovation; Museum Worthy: Fashion and the Archive; Fashioning Cultural Identities: Case Studies"--

Author : Charles Earl Jones
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780933121966
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Panther Party (reconsidered) written by Charles Earl Jones and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, contributed by scholars and former Panthers, is a ground-breaking work that offers thought-provoking and pertinent observations about the many facets of the Party. By placing the perspectives of participants and scholars side by side, Dr. Jones presents an insider view and initiates a vital dialogue that is absent from most historical studies.