With a total of twenty-five chapters presented in a user-friendly style -- including chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading from the authors -- this is an essential text for any student new to the subject.

Contemporary cultural references throughout - this is not simply an historical account. Pieces drawing on diverse national, disciplinary and subdisciplinary contexts. Sensitivity to issues of gender, race and sexuality.

Moving beyond a simple opposition between 'tradition' and 'the modern', this book reveals a society that is struggling to reconcile its own profound aesthetic and sense of historical identity with the intense agonisms that are generated ...

Presents a comprehensive cultural, social and historical overview of post-war popular music genres, from rock 'n' roll and psychedelic pop, through punk and heavy metal, to rap, rave and techno.

John Storey's best and most significant contributions to the field of cultural studies - together in a single volume.

This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and a description of core concepts.

"This is an intelligent, savvy account of home in all its manifestations.

Freud’s Italian Journey takes the psychoanalytical texts of Freud on the visual arts and literature as its objects for analysis.

" "Sounds English shows how popular music complicates cherished notions of Englishness as it activates cultural outsiders and taps into a sense of not belonging."--BOOK JACKET.

What can Sociology add to our understanding of art? This volume brings together a range of respected scholars in the field who demonstrate the many ways in which sociology can add to our understanding of artistic issues.