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Book Review: The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research, edited by...
The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research seeks to explores the issues of rapid technological development, social change, and the ubiquity of computing technologies which have become an...
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Book Review: Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, 2nd...
Why think about the Walkman in the 21st century? Can the Walkman help us understand today’s media and cultural practices? Through the notion of the ‘circuit of culture’, this book aims to teach...
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Book Review: Popular Culture in Asia: Memory, City, Celebrity by Lorna...
Popular Culture in Asia consists of studies of film, music, television, anime, architecture, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and...
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Book Review: The History of the Kiss! The Birth of Popular Culture by Marcel...
How should we make sense of the iconic act of the kiss? How and when did it become a vital sign of romance and love? In this book, Marcel Danesi argues that the romantic kiss had its origins in the...
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Book Review: Punk Sociology by David Beer
This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire sociology and to cultivate a vibrant future for the discipline. Aiming to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists...
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Book Review: Britishness, Popular Music and National Identity by Irene Morra
Irene Morra offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. This book represents a valuable contribution to the corpus of...
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Reading List: 7 must-read books on music festivals and carnival culture
Notting Hill Carnival. Credit: S Pakhrin CC BY 2.0 With the Notting Hill Carnival and Reading and Leeds music festivals seeing out summer 2014 last weekend, these books offer analyses of the place and...
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Book Review: The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures edited by Linda...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures details a range of approaches to fan studies, and examines a range of fan communities, fan texts and definitions of fandom. The questions asked and...
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Book Review: Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: The punk and post-punk...
This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of ‘critical mass’, ‘social networks’ and ‘music...
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Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela – review
In Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela, Yana Stainova presents an ethnography of the participants in El Sistema, a state-funded music education programme for disadvantaged children and...
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