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Culture Studies

Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods Varieties of Cultural Appropriation (1850-1950)

Huck Christian, Bauernschmidt Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593397627, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
220 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies – heavily influenced by both economics and sociology – as a lens through which to view the paradigm of transcultural consumption. The editors pres...

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World

Culture Studies

Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Klemek Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...

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Culture Studies

Too Much to Know Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Blair Ann M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165395, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 black&white illus.

The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Tour Guide Walking and Talking New York

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226919065, ISBN: HB: 9780226919058, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 8 line illus.

Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start – and that's where the city's tour guides...

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Music

Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Culture Studies

Troubling Vision Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

Fleetwood Nicole R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226253039, ISBN: HB: 9780226253022, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

"Troubling Vision" addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nico...

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Culture Studies

Technics and Civilization

Mumford Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226550275, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 – before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon ar...

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Political Science

Taking Offence

Melville Casper

ISBN: HB: 9781906497026, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears – interest groups, often using the language of human rights, are claiming that they are offended and attempting to ban, gag, even kill, those deemed to be the offenders. Intellectual heavyweights throughou...

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Culture Studies

Things Modern Material Culture and Everyday Life in China

Dikotter Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781850658153, Hurst Publishers, November 2006
320 pp., 25.6x19.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! How do people relate to things? Much has been written about social movements in modern China, but next to nothing is known about the revolution which transformed the texture of everyday life. This is the first book to map the m...

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Culture Studies

Time and Bits Managing Digital Continuity

MacLean Margaret, Davis Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780892365838, Getty Publications, March 2006
84 pp., 24.3x18 cm, 24 black&white illus.

What are the long-term implications of relying on current digital technology to preserve our cultural memory? This is the question that framed a symposium at the Getty Center where leaders from industry, entertainment, and digital information technol...

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