This completely revised 6th edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption, and meanings of popular music in the post-digital age. This book is written for students studying popular music, cultural studies, media studies, and sociology.

This completely revised 6th edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption, and meanings of popular music in the post-digital age. This book is written for students studying popular music, cultural studies, media studies, and sociology.

Understanding the African Diaspora offers a clear and engaging introduction to the global movements, histories, and cultural experiences of African and African-descended peoples, from ancient times to the present.

Understanding the African Diaspora offers a clear and engaging introduction to the global movements, histories, and cultural experiences of African and African-descended peoples, from ancient times to the present.

This book provides a deeper understanding of American history and the American South's complicated relationship with that history. It will appeal to scholars and students of American history and the American South, as well as general readers interested in history and its relationship to the present.

The fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes in mobile, social, and casual gaming. Drawing from examples, the text explores the aesthetics of games, evaluates the cultural position of video games, and considers the potential effects of both violent and "serious" games.

Anna Gough-Yates considers the rapid shift in women's magazines towards titles aimed at newly-identified 'lifestyle' groups of women readers.

Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina.

The shocking story of how the British government locked up thousands of innocent people – then forgot about them.

In the modern world of international capitalism, the various nationalisms are still inseparable from the international framework of financial institutions which struggle to sustain the global regime for the perpetual extraction of surplus value.