Discusses the steampunk movement in fiction, film, art, music, and fashion, tracing its history from Victorian science fiction novels and detailing its evolution into modern popular culture
Samling af artikler skrevet i 1980'erne med analyser af massekulturens og popindustriens produkter
Chronicles the rise of the Wu-Tang Clan from an underground supergroup to a globally recognized musical conglomerate. Enhanced by the author's one-on-one interviews with group members, this book covers the entire Wu-Tang Clan catalog of studio albums, as well as albums that were…
This title provides an accessible, engaging introduction to youth cultures in a global context. Blending theory and practice to examine a range of subcultural movements including hip hop in Japan, global graffiti writing crews, heavy metal in Europe and straight edge movements i…
Provides a survey of the history of televised music videos around the globe.
Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial and permanent genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. A large part of its appeal is that, at its core, steampunk is about doing it yourself: building on the past while also innovating and cre…
This volume makes available in English a collection of 12 of Professor Van der Linden's most important essays on the theme of transnational labour history. Previously published in a range of journals and books, this text collects them for all students of European labour history.
Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally.…
Explores global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world