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Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class.
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Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.
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You're with Stupid: Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In You’re with Stupid, Adams offers an insider’s look at the role Chicago’s underground music industry played in the transformation of indie rock. Chicago labels, as Adams explains, used the attention brought by national acts to launch bands that drew on alternative sound
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¡Ay Tu!: Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author and recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and more, was the first Chicana to be majorly published. ¡Ay Tú! is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical examination of her life and work.
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Seviyye Talip (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Set in the early twentieth century and a bestseller in Turkey in 1910, this novel follows Fahir, a reformist who graduates from Oxford University. Fahir returns to Istanbul after a... Læs mere
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Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.
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The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book uses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian... Læs mere
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City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital of San Francisco.
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Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond.... Læs mere
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Why Sinead O'Connor Matters (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar, her appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our view on Sinéad O’Connor and how we as a society celebrate female struggle.
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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director's Chair (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Ida Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America... Læs mere
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Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering... Læs mere
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