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1. The Culture of Markets

   By Virgil Storr

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   July 2011 | 978-0-415-77746-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Popular Culture

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57704-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton

   The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that serves as a basic textbook on music and culture. Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures--not only by ethnomusicologists, but by traditional musicologists as well. Drawing on writers from music,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88191-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

   By Ole Mjos

   This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of social media such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between social media and...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88274-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Alternative Business: Outlaws, Crime and Culture

   By Martin Parker

   Representations of business, management and organizations in popular culture are overwhelmingly negative. Why does this happen when the representation of economic outlaws in popular culture is almost always romantic? Martin Parker investigates the strange absence of cultural studies from the world...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58648-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Branding Television

   By Catherine Johnson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-54843-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Transcending Taboos: A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace

   By Garry Young, Monica Whitty

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57933-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness

   By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall

   Ryden and Marshall bring together the critical lenses of whiteness studies and the field of composition and rhetoric in this timely co-authored study about recent developments in whiteness studies and what these developments mean for literacy practices, critical education, and the academic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88865-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Making Sense of Nature

   By Noel Castree

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-54550-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Visual Sociology: An Introduction

    By Douglas Harper

    Why has the visual largely gone missing in sociology done so poorly when done at all? Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since Howard S. Becker's 1974 article, 'Photography and Sociology' but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area....

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-77896-1 | Paperback (Routledge)