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Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural
studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural
studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how
its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The
result is a landmark book which provides students with an
unrivalled guide to the international phenomenon of cultural
studies.
Afraid of training with weights? Worried of putting on muscles?
Think again. Strength training is for women. This book is the
ultimate guide to toning up, burning fat and getting the body you
want. It shows you why women should train with weights and why you
should not be afraid of them. Dispelling the myth that weight
training makes a woman 'bulky and unfeminine', the book shows that
weights and resistance training methods could be the single most
important element in your fitness regime. Packed with full-colour
photos and descriptions of over 30 exercises, the book gives you
advice on how to put together a resistance training programme as
well as how to interchange exercises. Motivational, it also gives
three 6-week workout programmes to achieve a stronger, fitter and
firmer body. This is the ideal companion to get the best toned body
you've always wanted. Strength training is for women.
Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness:
Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of
the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank
or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful eyes of
parents. The postwar welfare state offered free orange juice, milk
and healthcare, and there was lots to do, whether football in the
street, a double bill at the cinema, a game of Ludo or a spot of
roller-skating. But there were also hardships: wartime rationing
persisted into the '50s, a trip to the dentist was a painful
ordeal, and at school discipline was harsh and the Eleven-Plus exam
was a formidable milestone. Janet Shepherd and John Shepherd
examine what it was like to grow up part of the Baby Boomer
generation, showing what life was like at home and at school and
introducing a new phenomenon - the teenager.
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.
The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first
collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking
in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has
increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no
anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume
includes a comprehensive survey of the field's history, current
state and future research directions. It offers six source
readings, thirteen popular contemporary essays, and sixteen fresh,
new contributions, along with an extended Introduction by the
editors. The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music represents
a broad reference work that will be a resource for the current
generation of sociologically inclined musicologists and musically
inclined sociologists, whether researchers, teachers or students.
The Villa Wolkonsky, Rome, is the incongruously named official
residence of the British ambassador to Italy. Nestled within the
city's Aurelian Wall, the site's history dates back to antiquity,
its gardens dominated by the remains of a first-century imperial
Roman aqueduct. In the 19th century a remarkable Russian princess,
Zenaide Wolkonsky, turned it into a country home and salon d'art
with such illustrious visitors as Gogol, Turgenev and Fanny
Mendelssohn. Following generations excavated Roman tombs, collected
antiquities and built a new grand mansion, before selling the Villa
to the German government in 1922. It remained the German embassy,
being much enlarged, until the Liberation of Rome in 1944. After
the war the UK bought it, first as embassy offices and residence
and, since 1971, as the residence for the ambassador and other
staff. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Sir John Shepherd,
former ambassador, has undertaken new research to debunk long-held
myths and present, for the first time, a comprehensive history of
this hidden Roman treasure.
Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological
materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect to the field
of sociology. The analyses of social class systems presented here
speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms. Not only
that, both are connected to an understanding of the organizations
through which works are distributed to their audiences. Perhaps
most importantly for the contemporary reader, this book depicts the
part of the process by which dominant class groups justify their
domination--cultural and otherwise.
"Rock and Popular Music" examines the relations between the
policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music
and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which
those musics are involved. International in its scope and
conception, this innovative collection brings together some of the
most authoritative writers on rock and popular music in North
America, Europe and Australia. The essays explore and develop three
main areas of debate. First, comparative examinations of the role
played by governments in either supporting or inhibiting the
development of popular music industries reveal a significant
diversity of relations between the state and the musical sphere. A
second theme demonstrates the important role of broadcasting
policies in organizing the "audio-spaces" within which particular
musical communities can be formed and seek expression, and finally
the book reconsiders some of the classical political issues of rock
and popular music theory and debate in the context of their
specific policy and institutional settings.
This collection constitutes a salutory demonstration that Britain
no longer serves as the centre for cultural studies. Engaging the
critical discourses of feminism, postmodernism and postcolonialism,
the contributions explore the renegotiations and changes in
cultural studies in the wake of its export from Britain. In
particular, the volume shows how to understand the experiences of
marginalized groups, including women and aboriginal peoples in
postcolonial states. Questions about the ongoing globalization of
capital and culture are linked to constructions of national, local
and individual identities. The alternative relocations of cultural
studies offered here manifest two not incommensurate trends: Some
contributors consider how textual processes of representation
articulate with exclusionary practices. Others keep alive a sense
of politics in respect of institutional and policy debates. The
result is an invigorated cultural studies which moves between
theory and practice, gives primacy to tensions between extra-local
centres of political and economic power, and considers lived
experiences within their specific geo-cultural contexts.
From the recording industry in Canada to urban regeneration in
Liverpool, this issue of Cultural Studies explores the role of the
music industry in a changing world.
"Whose Music?" combines historical, musicological, and
sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect
to the field of sociology. The analyses of social class systems
presented here speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical
forms. Not only that, both are connected to an understanding of the
organizations through which works are distributed to their
audiences. Perhaps most importantly for the contemporary reader,
this book depicts the part of the process by which dominant class
groups justify their domination--cultural and otherwise.
The primary aim is to create an accessible and practical guide to
home brewing, covering all aspects of the process. The intended
outcome is that somebody following the guide, would be able to brew
a number of different style of beers of good quality and take
pleasure from both the process and the end product. Practically,
the book will also offer some introductory, but very useful,
information on other issues that are relevant to the home brewer;
equipment and the cost versus benefit of different types, beer
styles and flavours and an understanding of key, quality
ingredients. The photography will fit this approach in that images
will be useful and show helpful details but also be professionally
shot and be more than just functional; they will be good to look
at. The style of the book will be engaging and personal, in that it
is intended to guide the reader through the process as something
enjoyable, rather than approach it in a purely step by step
approach. It is also intended to be light-hearted and, above all,
readable and so could be enjoyed by someone actually brewing beer
or someone who just wants an interesting way into the topic.
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.
Over thirty years later, the 'winter of discontent' of 1978-79
still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, 1.5
million workers were on strike and industrial unrest swept Britain
in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical
supplies to hospitals, mountains of rubbish remained uncollected,
striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a
standstill. Even the dead were left unburied. Within weeks, the
beleaguered Callaghan Labour government fell from power. In the
1979 general election, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister,
beginning eighteen years of unbroken Conservative rule. Based on a
wide range of newly available historical sources and key
interviews, this full-length account, now available in paperback,
breaks new ground, analysing the origins, character and impact of a
turbulent period of industrial unrest. -- .
Excavations in the upper Walbrook valley, in a marginal area in the
north-west of the Roman city, recovered over 70kg of broken vessel
glass and production waste from a nearby workshop, giving new
insights into the workings of the glass industry and its craftsmen.
The area was developed in the early 2nd century AD, with evidence
of domestic buildings and property boundaries. Two later buildings
constructed in the mid 2nd century AD may have been associated with
the glass-working industry. The disposal of a huge amount of
glass-working waste in the later 2nd century signals the demise of
the workshop, with the area reverting to open land by the 3rd
century AD. The comprehensive nature of the glass-working waste has
made it possible to study the various processes - from the
preparation of the raw materials in the form of cullet, broken
vessel and window glass, to the blowing and finishing of the
vessel. All the glass originated ultimately in the eastern
Mediterranean, some of it arriving as raw glass chunks, which was
supplemented by cullet collected locally for recycling. A review of
the current evidence for glass working in London also examines the
implications for the organisation of the industry.
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of
historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written
in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays
written by leading British labour historians of that subject
including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley. It focuses
upon trade unionism, the co-operative movement, the rise and fall
of the Labour Party, and working-class lives, comparing British
labour movements with those in Germany and examining the social and
political labour activities of the Lansburys. There is, indeed,
some important work connected with the cultural developments of the
British labour movement, most obviously in the essay written by
Matthew Worley on communism and Punk Rock. -- .
The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first
collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking
in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has
increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no
anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume
includes a comprehensive survey of the field's history, current
state and future research directions. It offers six source
readings, thirteen popular contemporary essays, and sixteen fresh,
new contributions, along with an extended Introduction by the
editors. The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music represents
a broad reference work that will be a resource for the current
generation of sociologically inclined musicologists and musically
inclined sociologists, whether researchers, teachers or students.
Over thirty years later, the 'winter of discontent' of 1978-1979
still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, one and a
half million workers were on strike. Industrial unrest swept
Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical
supplies to hospitals; mountains of rubbish remained uncollected;
striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a
standstill; even the dead were left unburied. Within weeks, the
beleaguered Callaghan Labour Government fell from power. In the
1979 general election, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister,
beginning eighteen years of unbroken Conservative rule. Based on a
wide range of newly available historical sources and key
interviews, this full-length account breaks new ground, analysing
the origins, character and impact of a turbulent period of
industrial unrest. This important study will appeal to all those
interested in contemporary history and British politics.
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