While more than 80 percent of the world's commercial music is controlled by four multinational firms, most music is made and enjoyed in diverse situations divorced from such ...

Mainstream as metaphor: imagining dominant culture - Teenybop and the extraordinary particularities of mainstream practice - Historicizing mainstream mythology: the industrial ...

A provocative analysis of the theories of Marx, Foucault, and Derrida

This book examines the historical and philosophical links between commodity culture and cultural fetishism.

Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Andy Bennett begins by ...