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Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain Michael Pickering 9781138265363
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic,... -
Research Methods for Cultural Studies by Michael Pickering
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.16This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides students with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with... -
Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation by Michael Pickering 9780333772102
Booksplease Price: €52.07Stereotyping stands in need of serious re-appraisal. This book provides a critical assessment of the concept and its use in the social sciences, considering its theoretical basis and historical... -
History, Experience and Cultural Studies by Michael Pickering 9780333621103
Booksplease Price: €51.56This elegantly written and illuminating book explores the attenuated relationship between history and cultural studies, reappraising some of the issues and positions which have led to the impasse... -
Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life by Michael Pickering 9781137441201
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.77This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past... -
Modelling Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Patterns: An Australian case study by Michael Pickering 9781841714813
Booksplease Price: €80.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841714813Author Michael PickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR... -
Village Song & Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury North Oxfordshire by Michael Pickering
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €40.14Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This book examines the songs and their meanings in relation... -
The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice by Emily Keightley 9780230243361
Booksplease Price: €133.42An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial... -
The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice by M. Pickering 9781349318292
Booksplease Price: €133.42An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial... -
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage by Sarah Baker 9780367659929
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary... -
Research Methods for Memory Studies by Emily Keightley
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.07This is the first practical guide to research methods in memory studies. The 12 chapters provide students and researchers with clear descriptions of particular methods of research for: investigating... -
Time, Media and Modernity by Emily Keightley 9780230276703
Booksplease Price: €55.62A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is... -
Memory and the Management of Change: Repossessing the Past by Emily Keightley 9783319587431
Booksplease Price: €107.77This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and... -
Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour by Sharon Lockyer 9781403939425
Booksplease Price: €107.77Humour is pervasive in contemporary culture, and is generally celebrated as a public good. Yet there are times when it is felt to produce intolerance, misunderstanding or even hatred. This book... -
Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis David Deacon (Loughborough University, UK) 9781501316920
Booksplease Price: €44.80The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an... -
Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis by David Deacon 9780340926994
Booksplease Price: €72.99Researching Communications, Second Edition provides a practical, authoritative, step-by-step guide to media and communications studies students taking courses in communications research. The authors... -
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Reading "Little Britain": Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television by Sharon Lockyer 9781845119393
Booksplease Price: €28.33'Little Britain' arrived on British TV in 2003 - and was an instant hit. Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed, and their sharp satirical genius created this character-based sketch show -... -
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times by A. Reading 9781349441228
Booksplease Price: €55.62If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent... -
Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830-1996 by John Springhall
Booksplease Price: €49.22The international controversy (highlighted in Britain by the Bulger case) over the relationship between video nasties and crime is one that has a long prior history. Do books, films or magazines... -
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2: A Cultural History by Will Kaufman
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €35.59Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be... -
Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930 by Ricardo Roque 9780230222052
RRP: €142.79Booksplease Price: €133.42An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually... -
The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere by Patrick O’Mahony 9783034301466
Booksplease Price: €118.94Normative democratic theory does not lie securely above societal argumentation but is instead a crucial part of it. We need to know not just how the public should reason, but how it actually does... -
The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict by Dagmar Kift 9780521474726
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €102.51With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting... -
The Labour of Memory: Memorial Culture and 7/7 by M. Allen 9781349465156
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of... -
The Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma Peoples: A Transnational History Charissa Kurda 9780198980711
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €112.75How can we write a comprehensive, transnational history of the Porrajmos--one that captures the cumulative nature of anti-Gypsy persecution across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 1870 to 1945?... -
The Long Way Home: The Meaning and Values of Repatriation Paul Turnbull 9781845459581
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.99Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artefacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum... -
Stereotypes and the Construction of the Social World Perry R. Hinton 9781138637559
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €43.17Stereotypes and the Construction of the Social World explores the complexity of stereotypes, guiding the reader through issues of definition and theoretical explanations from psychology and other... -
Fear in the German-Speaking World, 1600-2000 by Thomas Kehoe 9781350150478
Booksplease Price: €133.79This book addresses the nature and role of fear in the German world from the early modern period through to the 20th century. Offering the first collection that centres fear in the historical... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures by Linda Duits
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within... -
Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour by Sharon Lockyer 9780230594500
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.77Humour is pervasive in contemporary culture, and is generally celebrated as a public good. Yet there are times when it is felt to produce intolerance, misunderstanding or even hatred. This book... -
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking Simon Weaver 9781138624665
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate... -
Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain by Marek Korczynski 9781107000179
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €82.85Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore... -
Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music by James P. Leary 9780199756964
RRP: €37.47Booksplease Price: €29.89A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th... -
Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music by James Leary 9780195141061
Booksplease Price: €83.00A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th... -
Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future by Katharina Niemeyer 9781137375872
RRP: €135.66Booksplease Price: €133.42Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter,... -
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867 by Catherine Hall
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.36Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women... -
Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value by Keith Negus 9780761970767
Booksplease Price: €99.16'There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of... -
The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music by Richard Elliott 9781501332142
Booksplease Price: €48.54Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering... -
Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future by Katharina Niemeyer 9781349477500
RRP: €135.66Booksplease Price: €133.42Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter,... -
Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age Kate Lacey (University of Sussex) 9780745660257
Booksplease Price: €23.45In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is...