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"Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent absurdity of existence.

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Concerns about the effects of television on children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. David Buckingham, gives an insight into children's responses to horror films, to 'weepies' and soap operas, to news and 'realty programmes'.

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This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the present and future impact of these modern technologies (including word processors, videotex and video and digital optical discs) on professional, business and scholarly research information, as well as on information to the general public.

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Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of ethnic relations, this volume examines the role of ethnicity in modern day society and the impact of government policy on ethnic relations.

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Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive media. Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen provide students with a wide-ranging analysis of the various communication styles and the ways by which text is now understood as the interaction of sound, music, vision, colour and language.

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Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

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Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

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Offers an overview of ""the Australian"" newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across its first three decades.

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The inside story of the skullduggery at the heart of one the Murdoch empire's subsidiaries, NDS.

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At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

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At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

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Chapters present accessible narratives on music and its cultural resonations, music theory and technique is broken down for the lay reader, and each volume presents a chapter of alphabetically arranged entries on significant people and terms.

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Presents a survey of key topics in 16 countries with significant Muslim populations. Each chapter covering a country contains the following elements: overview; political impact; women's status; special issues in the news; notable people; and a resource guide. This book is useful for readers wanting to understand the contemporary Muslim world.

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Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of the establishment and operation of hospital contributory schemes and the organisation of voluntary hospitals in Britain before the creation of the NHS. -- .

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This book was born out of the pandemic.
Beverly started drawing these little cartoons to share how she was feeling.
(She didn't really know how to draw - she just kept trying.)
Amazingly, her trying to draw brought her a sense of calm.
These little cartoons helped her survive the lockdown.

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This is the first work to go beyond the popular myths of stock car racing to fully examine the sport's true history.

NASCAR Nation: A History of Stock Car Racing in the United States details the ongoing saga of this quintessentially American pastime.

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Provides a contribution to the contemporary debate on the cultural dimension of European integration. The contributors develop conceptual, as well as empirical themes showing the importance of cultural diversity in Europe.

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Finding out how Indians lived 100 years ago is easy. Getting an accurate picture of their life in the late 20th century is another matter. This work focuses on contemporary reservation-based political, social, economic, and cultural concerns, from education, and tribal identity to sacred sites.

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From the Pueblo land protests of the 1920s to the sports teams' mascot controversies of the 1990s, this book chronicles the depictions of Native Americans in the press.

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Applying the theory of dromoscopy to Western political and military history, this book exposes a compulsion to accelerate, and the rise of a politics of time - encapsulated in the importance accorded to speed - over territorial politics of space.