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Pop Music Production Manufactured Pop and BoyBands of the 1990s

Pop Music Production Manufactured Pop and BoyBands of the 1990s

Pop Music Production delves into academic depths around the culture the business the songwriting and most importantly the pop music production process. Phil Harding balances autobiographical discussion of events and relationships with academic analysis to offer poignant points on the value of pure popular music particularly in relation to BoyBands and how creative pop production and songwriting teams function. Included here are practical resources such as recording studio equipment lists producer business deal examples and a 12-step mixing technique where Harding expands upon previously released material to explain how ‘Stay Another Day’ by East 17 changed his approach to mixing forever. However it is important to note that Harding almost downplays his involvement in his career. At no point is he center stage; he humbly discusses his position within the greater scheme of events. Pop Music Production offers cutting-edge analysis of a genre rarely afforded academic attention. This book is aimed at lecturers and students in the subject fields of Music Production Audio Engineering Music Technology Popular Songwriting Studies and Popular Music Culture. It is suitable for all levels of study from FE students through to PhD researchers. Pop Music Production is also designed as a follow-up to Harding’s first book PWL from the Factory Floor (2010 Cherry Red Books) a memoir of his time working with 1980s pop production and songwriting powerhouse Stock Aitken Waterman at PWL Studios. | Pop Music Production Manufactured Pop and BoyBands of the 1990s

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Art Into Pop

Art Into Pop

This book first published in 1987 tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music with Bohemian dreams and the late 1970s when punk musicians emerged from design courses and fashion departments to disrupt what were by then art-rock routines. Sixties rock Bohemians and seventies pop Situationists were in their different ways trying to solve the art students’ perennial problem – how to make a living from their art. Art Into Pop shows how this problem has been shaped by the history of British art education from its nineteenth-century origins to current arguments about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ training. In their simultaneous pursuit of authenticity and artifice art school musicians exemplify the postmodern condition the collapse of any distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture the confusions of personal and commercial creativity. And so high pop theorists rub shoulders here with low pop practitioners experimental musicians debate avant-garde ideas with corporate packagers and artistic integrity becomes a matter of making oneself up.

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K-pop Dance Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

K-pop Dance Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork interviews choreography and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York California and Seoul the book traces the evolution of K-pop dance from the 1980s to the 2020s and explains its distinctive feature called ‘gestural point choreography’ – front-driven two-dimensional decorative and charming movements of the upper body and face – as an example of what the author theorizes as ‘social media dance. ’ It also explores K-pop cover dance as a form of intercultural performance suggesting that by imitating and idolizing K-pop dance fans are eventually ‘fandoming’ themselves and their bodies. Presenting an ethnographic study of K-pop dance and its fandom this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Media Studies Korean Studies Performance Studies and Dance. | K-pop Dance Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives and grounded empirical research an international team of authors consider the history of transnational flows within pop culture and then systematically address pop culture digital technologies and the media industry. Chapters cover the Hallyu—or Korean Wave—phenomenon as well as Japanese and Chinese cultural industries. Throughout the book the authors address the convergence of the once-separated practical industrial and business aspects of popular culture under the influence of digital culture. They further coherently synthesize a vast collection of research to examine the specific realities and practices of consumers that exist beyond regional boundaries shared cultural identities and historical constructs. This book will be of interest to academic researchers undergraduates and graduate students of Asian media media studies communication studies cultural studies transcultural communication or sociology. | Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

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Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video interpreting the music of numerous pop artists styles and idioms. The focus falls on artists such as Lady Gaga Madonna Boy George Diana Ross Rufus Wainwright David Bowie Azealia Banks Zebra Katz Freddie Mercury the Pet Shop Boys George Michael and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this illuminating aspects of parody nostalgia camp naivety masquerade irony and mimesis in pop music. One of the principal aims is to uncover the subversive strategies of pop artists through a wide range of audiovisual texts that situate the debates on gender and sexuality within an aesthetic context that is highly stylized and ritualized. Queerness in Pop Music also addresses the playfulness of much pop music offering insights into how discourses of resistance are mediated through pleasure. Given that pop artists songwriters producers directors choreographers and engineers all contribute to the final composite of the pop recording it is argued that the staging of any pop act is a collective project. The implications of this are addressed through structures of gender ethnicity nationality class and sexuality. Ultimately Hawkins contends that queerness is a performative force that connotes futurity and utopian promise. | Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

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American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962 to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68 this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting graphic design cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68. | American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

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Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look at pop masculinity as exhibited by boy bands this volume links the evolving expressions of gender and sexuality in the boy band to wider economic and social changes that have resulted in new ways of representing what it is to be a man. The popularity of boy bands is unquestionable and their contributions to popular music are significant yet they have attracted relatively little study. This book fills that gap with chapters exploring the challenges of defining the boy band phenomenon its origins and history from the 1940s to the present the role of management and marketing the performance of gender and sexuality and the nature of fandom and fan agency. Throughout the author illuminates the ways in which identity politics influence the production and consumption of pop music and shows how the mainstream pop of boy bands can both reinforce and subvert gender and class hierarchies.

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Pop Culture Freaks Identity Mass Media and Society

Pop Culture Freaks Identity Mass Media and Society

Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples Pop Culture Freaks highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identity—race class gender sexuality disability—to provide a broad overview of the field that encompasses classical and contemporary theory original data topical and timely examples and a strong pedagogical focus on methods. Pop Culture Freaks encourages students to develop further research questions and projects from the material. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are brought to bear in Kidd's examination of the labor force for cultural production the representations of identity in cultural objects and the surprising differences in how various audiences consume and use mass culture in their everyday lives. This new revised edition includes update examples and date to reflect a constantly changing pop culture landscape. | Pop Culture Freaks Identity Mass Media and Society

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Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring’s Pop Shop

Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring’s Pop Shop

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring this book uses the Pop Shop a previously overlooked enterprise and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring’s career as a whole. Haring developed an alternative approach to both the marketing and the social efficacy of art: he controlled the sales and distribution of his merchandise while also promulgating his belief in accessibility and community activism. He proved that mass-produced objects can be used strategically to form a community and create social change. Furthermore looking beyond the 1980s into the 1990s and 2000s Haring and his shop prefigured artists’ emerging self-aware involvement with the mass media and the art world’s growing dependence on marketing and commercialism. The book will be of interest to scholars or students studying art history consumer culture cultural studies media studies or market studies as well as anyone with a curiosity about Haring and his work the 1980s art scene in New York the East Village street art art activism and art merchandising. | Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring’s Pop Shop

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Understanding the Korean Wave Transnational Korean Pop Culture and Digital Technologies

Understanding the Korean Wave Transnational Korean Pop Culture and Digital Technologies

A comprehensive and critical introduction to understanding the Korean Wave (Hallyu) as a transnational media phenomenon. This book provides an accessible introduction to the Korean Wave—the rapid growth of local cultural industries and the global popularity of Korean popular culture over the past 30 years—providing historical political economic and socio-cultural context to its initial rise and enduring popularity. Jin explores the transnational cultural flows of Hallyu across a variety of products and digital technologies—from television dramas film and K-pop to online games and webtoons—and explains the process of cross-media convergence and the socio-political contexts behind the Hallyu phenomenon. He also explores how overseas fans and audiences advance K-pop fandom as social agents in different geo-cultural contexts. The book concludes by discussing if Hallyu can become a sustainable global popular culture beyond a fan-based regional cultural phenomenon. Each chapter features detailed contemporary case studies and discussion questions to enhance student engagement. This is essential reading for students of Media and Communication Cultural Studies Korean Studies and Asian Studies particularly those taking classes on popular culture and media media and globalization Korean popular culture and East Asian culture. | Understanding the Korean Wave Transnational Korean Pop Culture and Digital Technologies

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Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups movable books have a little-known history as interactive narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words images and movable components they cross the borders between story toy and game. Interactive Books is a historical and comparative study of early movable books in relation to the children who engage with them. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh focuses on the period movable books became connected with children from the mid-17th to the early-19th centuries. In particular she examines turn-up books paper doll books and related hybrid experiments like toy theaters and paignion (or domestic play set) produced between 1650 and 1830. Despite being popular in their own time these artifacts are little known today. This study draws attention to a gap in our knowledge of children’s print culture by showing how these artifacts are important in their own right. Reid-Walsh combines archival research with children’s literature studies book history and juvenilia studies. By examining commercially produced and homemade examples she explores the interrelations among children interactive media and historical participatory culture. By drawing on both Enlightenment thinkers and contemporary digital media theorists Interactive Books enables us to think critically about children’s media texts paper and digital past and present. | Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

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Popular Culture in Everyday Life A Critical Introduction

Popular Culture in Everyday Life A Critical Introduction

An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture which provides students with the tools they need to make sense of the popular culture that inundates their everyday lives. This textbook centers on media ecology and equipment for living to introduce students to important theories and debates in the field. Each chapter engages an important facet of popular culture ranging from the business of popular culture to communities stories and identities to the simulation and sensation of pop culture. The text explains key terms and features contemporary case studies throughout examining aspects such as memes and trends on social media cancel culture celebrities as influencers gamification meta pop culture and personalized on-demand music. The book enables students to understand the complexity of power and influence providing a better understanding of the ways pop culture is embedded in a wide range of everyday activities. Students are encouraged to reflect on how they consume and produce popular culture and understand how that shapes their sense of self and connections to others. Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies communication studies cultural studies popular culture and other related subjects. | Popular Culture in Everyday Life A Critical Introduction

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Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave Hallyu and Soft Power

Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave Hallyu and Soft Power

Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave (K-wave) also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage. The Korean Wave refers to the global spread and popularity of South Korean culture particularly its pop music (K-pop) serialised dramas (K-dramas) and films (K-films). Given the South Korean government’s involvement in providing funding and publicity the Korean Wave raises interesting sociolinguistic questions about the relationship between artistry and citizenship the use of social media in facilitating the consumption of cultural products and ultimately the nature of soft power itself. Studies of soft power have tended to come from the field of international relations. This book shows that sociolinguistics actually has a number of tools in its conceptual arsenal – such as indexicality stance taking affect and styling – that can shed light on the Korean Wave as a form of soft power. As the first book-length sociolinguistic analysis of the Korean Wave and soft power this book demonstrates how K-pop K-dramas and K-films have been able to encourage in consumers an anthropological stance towards all things Korean. This volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics political science cultural studies and Korean studies. 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 (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave Hallyu and Soft Power

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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

Popular music is a growing presence in education formal and otherwise from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes courses and modules in popular music studies popular music performance songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syllabi such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop have emerged in recent years meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education ethnomusicology community music cultural studies and popular music studies. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education is the first book-length publication that brings together a diverse range of scholarship in this emerging field. Perspectives include the historical sociological pedagogical musicological axiological reflexive critical philosophical and ideological. | The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

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The Music of George Harrison

The Music of George Harrison

George Harrison was one of the most prolific popular music composers of the late 20th century. During his tenure with the Beatles he caught the wave of 1960s pop culture and began channeling its pervasive influence through his music. Often described as The Invisible Singer his solo recordings reveal him to be an elusive yet essential element in the Beatles’ sound. The discussion of George Harrison’s Beatle tracks featured in the text employs a Songscape approach that blends accessible music analysis with an exploration of the virtual space created on the sound recording. This approach is then used to explore Harrison’s extensive catalog of solo works which due to their varied cultural sources seem increasingly like early examples of Global Pop. In that sense the music of George Harrison may ultimately be viewed as an important locus for pan-cultural influence in the 20th century making this book essential reading for those interested in the history of songwriting and recording as well as the cultural study of popular music.

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Gender Branding and the Modern Music Industry The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars

Gender Branding and the Modern Music Industry The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars

Gender Branding and the Modern Music Industry combines interview data with music industry professionals with theoretical frameworks from sociology mass communication and marketing to explain and explore the gender differences female artists experience. This book provides a rare lens on the rigid packaging process that transforms female artists of various genres into female pop stars. Stars—and the industry power brokers who make their fortunes—have learned to prioritize sexual attractiveness over talent as they fight a crowded field for movie deals magazine covers and fashion lines let alone record deals. This focus on the female pop star’s body as her core asset has resigned many women to being short term brands positioned to earn as much money as possible before burning out or aging ungracefully. This book which includes interview data from music industry insiders explores the sociological forces that drive women into these tired representations and the ramifications for the greater social world. | Gender Branding and the Modern Music Industry The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars

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Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial constantly capturing exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood. The Alleymen were workers as much as artists. This book first published in 1982 explores how the change occurred the ways in which songwriters organised themselves to get greater control over their products the social circumstances that influenced their choice of subject-matter the new forms such as the integrated musical developed for maximum appeal the vast publicity structure built to market the merchandise and of course the many stars who came to fame by taking a walk down the Alley.

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Philosophy of Western Music A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Western Music A Contemporary Introduction

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms especially song. Its author Andrew Kania begins by asking whether Bob Dylan should even have been eligible for the Nobel Prize in Literature given that he is a musician. This motivates a discussion of music as an artistic medium and what philosophy has to contribute to our thinking about music. Chapters 2-5 investigate the most commonly defended sources of musical value: its emotional power its form and specifically musical features (such as pitch rhythm and harmony). In chapters 6-9 Kania explores issues arising from different musical practices particularly work-performance (with a focus on classical music) improvisation (with a focus on jazz) and recording (with a focus on rock and pop). Chapter 10 examines the intersection of music and morality. The book ends with a consideration of what ultimately music is. Key Features Uses popular-song examples throughout but also discusses a range of musical traditions (notably rock pop classical and jazz) Explains both philosophical and musical terms when they are first introduced Provides publicly accessible Spotify playlists of the musical examples discussed in the book Each chapter begins with an overview and ends with questions for testing comprehension and stimulating further thought along with suggestions for further reading | Philosophy of Western Music A Contemporary Introduction

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Discrete Encounters

Discrete Encounters

Eschewing the often standard dry and static writing style of traditional textbooks Discrete Encounters provides a refreshing approach to discrete mathematics. The author blends traditional course topics and applications with historical context pop culture references and open problems. This book focuses on the historical development of the subject and provides fascinating details of the people behind the mathematics along with their motivations deepening readers’ appreciation of mathematics. This unique book covers many of the same topics found in traditional textbooks but does so in an alternative entertaining style that better captures readers’ attention. In addition to standard discrete mathematics material the author shows the interplay between the discrete and the continuous and includes high-interest topics such as fractals chaos theory cellular automata money-saving financial mathematics and much more. Not only will readers gain a greater understanding of mathematics and its culture they will also be encouraged to further explore the subject. Long lists of references at the end of each chapter make this easy. Highlights:Features fascinating historical context to motivate readersText includes numerous pop culture references throughout to provide a more engaging reading experienceIts unique topic structure presents a fresh approachThe text’s narrative style is that of a popular book not a dry textbookIncludes the work of many living mathematiciansIts multidisciplinary approach makes it ideal for liberal arts mathematics classes leisure reading or as a reference for professors looking to supplement traditional coursesContains many open problemsProfusely illustrated

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Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany including the works of Hannah Arendt Jacques Derrida Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin. Artists and concepts discussed in relation to Sontag’s essays include the works of Andy Warhol Pop Art French New Wave Cinema the music of John Cage and the cinematic art of Robert Bresson Leni Riefenstahl Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard. Her aesthetic formalism is compared with Harold Bloom and this is the first volume to examine her late works and their position within the American events of 9/11/01 and the War on Terror(ism). | Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

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Digitalization and Social Change A Guide in Critical Thinking

Digitalization and Social Change A Guide in Critical Thinking

Digitalization is shaping our everyday lives yet navigating the changes it entails can feel like trekking into the unknown where both the possibilities and the consequences are unclear and difficult to grasp. Exploring how digitalization affects all aspects of our lives from health to culture this book aims to develop and strengthen the reader’s ability to think critically about such developments. Written in a clear and concise manner with reference to science fiction and pop culture this book presents potent theoretical perspectives for understanding digitalization processes as societal change. Various exercises are included throughout to encourage readers to critically explore digitalization in their own lives. Replete with illustrations and examples this book is an accessible guide to digitalization in the modern societal context appealing to students at the undergraduate level as well as general readership. | Digitalization and Social Change A Guide in Critical Thinking

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Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art culture social movements and discourses of statehood this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock Punk and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism. | Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

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Death and the Rock Star

Death and the Rock Star

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012) and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012 have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music fame and death. If the phrase ’sex drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle it has left many casualties in its wake and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely as many artists who fronted the rock’n’roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s continue to age the idea of dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse (which gave rise for instance to the myth of the ’27 Club’) no longer carries the same resonance that it once might have done. This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars ’rock’ being taken in the widest sense as the artists discussed belong to the genres of rock’n’roll (Elvis Presley) disco (Donna Summer) pop and pop-rock (Michael Jackson Whitney Houston Amy Winehouse) punk and post-punk (GG Allin Ian Curtis) rap (Tupac Shakur) folk (the Dutchman André Hazes) and ’world’ music (Fela Kuti). When music artists die their fellow musicians producers fans and the media react differently and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales copyrights and print media is considered and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead through covers sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries biographies and biopics observing that posthumous fame provides coping mechanisms for fans and consumers of popular culture more generally to deal with the knowledge of their own mortality. Examining the contrasting ways in which male and female dead singers are portrayed in the media the book | Death and the Rock Star

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Performance and the Culture of Nationalism Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South Central and Southeast Asia

Performance and the Culture of Nationalism Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South Central and Southeast Asia

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia. It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times. Drawing on various theatrical performance texts it looks at the ways in which performative narratives have reflected the national narrative and analyses the role performance has played in engendering nationhood. The volume discusses themes such as political martyrdom as performative nationalism the revitalisation of nationalism through new media the sanitisation of physical gestures in dance the performance of nationhood through violence in Tajiki films as well as K-Pop and the new northeastern identity in India. A unique contribution to the study of nationalism this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history theatre and performance studies cultural studies postcolonial studies modern India Asian studies political studies social anthropology and sociology. | Performance and the Culture of Nationalism Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South Central and Southeast Asia

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Creating Great Places Evidence-based Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing

Creating Great Places Evidence-based Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing

This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places. Imagining and designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary task and in this compelling narrative Cushing and Miller remind us that theory is a powerful starting point. Drawing on international research illustrated case studies personal experiences as well as fascinating examples from history and pop culture this practical book provides the reader with inspiration guidance and tools. The first section outlines six critical theories for contemporary urban design - affordance prospect-refuge personal space sense of place/genius loci place attachment and biophilic design. The second section using their innovative ‘theory-storming’ process demonstrates how designers can create great places that are inclusive sustainable and salutogenic. Creating Great Places is an insightful compelling and evidence-based resource for readers who want to design urban environments that inspire excite and positively transform people’s lives. | Creating Great Places Evidence-based Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing

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