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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society. This book investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity.

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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society. This book investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity.

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The first book to explore how Arab pop culture has succeeded in helping forge a pan-Arab identity, where Arab nationalism has failed.

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This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China.

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From the reality TV show Superstar to Formula One ace Michael Schumacher, Pop Culture Germany! explores the exciting world of contemporary German popular culture.

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This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature.

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The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.

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Comprehensively examines popular culture in the 2000s, placing the culture of the decade in historical context and showing how it not only reflected but also influenced its times.

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Analyzing complex social and political issues through their manifestations in popular culture, this book provides readers a strong foundational knowledge of the 1960s as a decade.

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A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama -- .

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Presents an international overview of how pornography - from soft core to hard core, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates through our media. Exploring music videos, alt porn sites, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, and more, this work analyses the transformation of porn in media and its impact on our culture.

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Presents an international overview of how pornography - from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates and proliferates through our media. Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, this work analyses the transformation of porn in media and its impact on our culture.

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The concept of ethnic, racial, and gender humor is as sensitive a subject today as it has ever been; Leon Rappoport's incisive account takes an in-depth look at ethnic, racial and gender humor.

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Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. This title examines the political force of folk music through the social activities that make up movements.

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A tale of departures within the life of Tony Andrews who turned into an art dealer at 22. Always a contrarian in battle with conventional wisdom and received opinion, he exhibits Contemporary Realism in the teeth of rampant Abstract Expressionism, within the roads of a long life, departures of abandonment, leave takings of his own, and deaths departures, too.

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This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how the media and society in general reacted to these controversies.