Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran: Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies
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In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era. They are...
Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture: Studies in Erotic Epistemology
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This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and...
The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
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This book shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower...
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
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The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of...
Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture
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Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of...
How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century
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Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginning in film and...
Popular Music and Cultural Policy
Martin Cloonan, Shane Homan and Jen Cattermole
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Popular music is increasingly visible in government strategies and policies. While much has been...
The Cultural Logic of Computation
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Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and...
Edith Piaf: A Cultural History
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The world-famous French singer Edith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies...
Cultural Heritage and the Future
Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Hogberg
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Cultural Heritage and the Future for the first time brings together a diverse, international group...