Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock 'N' Roll Resources

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From “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?” to a list of all song titles containing the word “werewolf,” Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources continues where 1995’s Volume I left off. Using references and illustrations drawn from contemporary lyrics and supported by historical and sociological research on popular cultural subjects, this collection of insightful essays and reviews assesses the involvement of musical imagery in personal issues, in social and political matters, and in key socialization activities. From marriage and sex to public schools and youth culture, readers discover how popular culture can be used to explore American values.

As Authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney prove that integrated popular culture is the product of commercial interaction with public interest and values rather than a random phenomena, they entertainingly and knowledgeably cover such topics as:

• answer songs--interchanges involving social events and lyrical commentaries as explored in response recordings
• horror films--translations and transformations of literary images and motion picture figures into popular song characters and tales
• public schools--images of formal educational practices and informal learning processes in popular song lyrics
• sex--suggestive tales and censorship challenges within the popular music realm
• war--examinations of persistent military and home front themes featured in wartime recordings
  
  Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ‘n’Roll Resources is nontechnical, written in a clear and concise fashion, and explores each topic thoroughly, with ample discographic and bibliographic resources provided for additional research. Arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference to specific topics, the book is equally enjoyable to read straight through. Rock music fans, teachers, popular culture professors, music instructors, public librarians, sound recording archivists, sociologists, social critics, and journalists can all learn something, as the book shows them the cross-pollination of music and social life in the United States.

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Looking for the Enemy

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Did the CIA sabotage their own 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the hope of trapping President Kennedy into a full-scale war? Was President Kennedy killed because he wanted to withdraw from Vietnam? What is one to make of Prof. Noam Chomsky's rejection of this thesis and his "false debate" with Prof. John Newman? The author analyzes his extensive correspondence with Chomsky on this issue. Was Nixon's Watergate downfall an inside job? Was the "abortive" coup against Gorbachev that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union a KGB-CIA hoax? Was Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of the Deutsche Bank, murdered by his fellow bankers because of his progressive approach to Third-World debt? Is AIDS man-made - for the purpose of combating global overpopulation? This is the story of one American's attempt to grapple with the underbelly of recent history - a story which is very relevant to questions today such as the truth behind 9/11.

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Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States

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"Herfried Munkler is a walking one-man think tank."
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Until recently, it was thought by many that empires were relics of the past. But suddenly, in the wake of 9/11, the global war on terror and the invasion of Iraq, the question of imperial power has returned to the centre of debate: we now seem to be faced with a new American empire that many people regard as threatening. Do the politicians in Washington dictate the rules that the rest of the world must follow? Or do empires have a logic of their own to which even the most powerful rulers must succumb?

In this major new book, Herfried Munkler analyses the characteristics of empires and traces the rise and fall of imperial powers from Ancient Rome to the present day. What is an empire? What risks does an imperial order face and what opportunities are offered? Munkler shows how empires provide stability and examines the dangers they face when their powers are overstretched. He argues that, while earlier empires from Ancient China and Ancient Rome to the Spanish, Portuguese and British empires had their own historical conditions, certain basic principles concerning the development and preservation of power can be discerned in all empires and are still relevant today.

This book is a commanding walk through the history of empires and at the same time a brilliant analysis of the most modern of topics. It will appeal to students and scholars of international politics and history as well as general readers interested in political history and contemporary world politics.

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The Hollywood Culture War: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You!

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2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Hollywood's Culture War assault on American values through movies, television, DVDs, video games, the internet and music. It wasn't always this way. This book explains how the Culture War started and how Americans are fighting back for control of the cohesive and entertaining values that bind together a strong nation.

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A Soldier's Sketchbook: From the Front Lines of World War II

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A Soldier's Sketchbook, an illustrated memoir from a World War II soldier, is drawn from the letters, sketches, snapshots, and mementos of Pvt. Joseph Farris, who left his home of Danbury, Connecticut, and set off to war aboard the U.S.S. General Gordon in October 1944, bound for France as part of Company M, 398th Infantry. Farris wrote more than 800 letters home, and he hewed his artistic talents with sketches and paintings along the way. He also secretly copied officers' notes and, once back home after the war, collected clippings and battlefield accounts, which form a sobering counterpoint to his reassurances to his parents that everything is "swell."
 
This book chronicles a young soldier's experiences from October 1944 through January 1946 in France and Germany. In words and pictures, it tells of Christmas in the trenches, long walks through the rain and mud, landscapes of fear and despair, lost friends and leaders, changing beliefs about human nature, God, and the Jerries (as he calls the Germans).
 
Transcriptions of many of the 800 letters Joseph Farris wrote home sit side by side with the real thing, reproduced in facsimile on the page. Snapshots and color sketches, painted in moments of reprieve during battle and carried home by this earnest young man and fledgling artist, help us see the world he saw.

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Last Dance at the Frosty Queen

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On the dock of a lake in a tiny town at the corner of Nowhere & Nowhere, he sits counting the seconds until his high school graduation—at which point Arthur M. Flood intends to leave his hick life far behind in the brown Kansas dust. That's the plan. Until . . . up from the lake's muddy depths swims a girl. She's not a mermaid, but she is the one who shakes up Arty's life, makes him mad and mad for her, and helps him find a pathway to his past, his future, and where his heart truly lies.

Teens will recognize their own emotional landscape in this steamy, funny, coming-of-age tale in which the heart tries to hide, only to be utterly exposed by love and lust, lost and found.


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The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks 1 (Rough Guide Reference)

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The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks is an essential guide to the movies that women love to watch. Taking a female perspective this book covers everything, from the history of cinema and the different films made around the world, to the stars, the directors and the people behind the scenes of this increasingly popular movie genre. The guide includes details on costume design and has a unique chapter on the chick lit/chick flick crossover. Written by a film scholar, this book leaves no stone unturned with an exciting mix of old favourites from Bridget and Bette Davis to some surprising choices - thrillers, warrior movies and even the odd western. With hundreds of film reviews, this guide opens up a whole new world of interesting and fun films that women will love to watch.

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