Collins, Jim
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post Modernism
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1989
176pp 234 x 156
This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies, literary theory, film theory.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 90137 5 £9.99

Feist, Andrew & Hutchison, Robert
Cultural Trends in the Eighties
professional level
PSI: 10 1990
80pp 216 x 135
This volume contains a wealth of cultural and arts statistics on the current state of various fields of art in the UK, including cinema, film and video, libraries and literature, drama, music, opera, dance and visual arts and crafts.
Paperback ISBN:0 85374 455 6 £5.99

Fiske, John
Reading the Popular
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1989
220pp
This work analyzes popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit, implicit meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect. It examines the multitude of meanings lying beneath the cultural artifacts that surround us in shopping malls, popular music and television.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 07875 X £9.99

Fiske, John
Understanding Popular Culture
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1989
220pp
In this companion volume to "Reading the Popular", Fiske presents a radical theory of what it means for culture to be popular. He considers the study of such cultural artifacts as jeans, tabloid newspapers and TV game shows.
Paperback ISBN:0 415 07876 8 £9.99

Harris, Tim (Ed)
Popular Culture in England, c.1500-1850
further, undergraduate level
Macmillan Press: 03 1995
300pp 216 x 138: Bibliography, index
Series: Themes in Focus Series
A collection of nine essays which offer a critical re evaluation of the concept of "popular culture" which covers a range of topics from religion to gender. The book challenges the traditional interpretation that the period c.1500-1850 saw a gulf between elite and popular culture.
Paperback ISBN:0 333 54110 3 £13.99

Hebdidge, Dick
Hiding in the Light
general level
Routledge: 11 1988
288pp
Paperback ISBN: 0 415 00737 2 £10.99

Hebdidge, Dick
Subculture: the Meaning of Style
undergraduate, professional level
Routledge: 1979
200pp
Series: New Accents
Paperback ISBN:0 415 03949 5 £9.99

Papa, Mario & Iantorno, Giuliano
Famous British and American Songs and Their Cultural Background
intermediate, advanced level
Longman ELT: 07 1979
88pp 170 x 237
Paperback ISBN:0 582 79088 3 £8.97
CASSETTE
Cassette ISBN:0 582 79089 1 £9.99

Pickering, Michael(Ed) & Green, Tony(Ed)
Everyday Culture: Popular Song and the Vernacular Milieu
undergraduate, professional level
Open UP: 12 1987
204pp: Illustrations, plan, music, bibliography
Dewey class: 784.4942
Series: Popular Music in Britain
Hardback ISBN:0 335 15289 9 £40.00

Redhead, Steve
Rave Off: Deviant Discourses in Contemporary Youth Culture
general, undergraduate, professional level
Avebury: 04 1993
208pp 219 x 153
Series: Popular Culture in the City, 1
An account of deviant youth culture at the end of the century, concentrating on the "rave" scene and its connections to recreational drug use such as ecstasy contemporary pop and dance music, youth tourism, football hooliganism and the "enterprise culture".
Hardback ISBN:1 85628 463 8 £39.85
Paperback ISBN:1 85628 465 4 £17.48

Roddam, Franc
Quadrophenia
general level
Polygram: 1979
Video 114mins
This film accurately recreates all the excitement and aggression of the Mods and Rockers in the 60's.
Video ISBN:6200573646 Price on application

Savage, Jon
England's Dreaming: the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock
general level
Faber Paperbacks: 06 1992
624pp: B&w and colour photographs, discography The influence of The Sex Pistols has stretched way beyond their short and notorious career not only did they define punk but by 1977 they had initiated an explosion of angry music, graphics, fashion and media. This book includes research, interviews and a discography of The Sex Pistols.
Hardback ISBN:0 571 16791 8 £9.99

Shuker, Roy
Understanding Popular Music
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 10 1994
368pp 216 x 138: Bibliography
An introduction for students to both textual and industrial approaches to popular music. This survey includes topics such as the music press, pop videos, contemporary pop icons, fans and subcultures.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 10722 9 £37.50
Paperback ISBN:0 415 10723 7 £10.99

Strinati, Dominic
Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 06 1995
240pp 216 x 138
This is an introductory guide to the main theories of popular culture. It examines the main areas of contemporary popular cultural studies, such as the theories of Adorno and the Frankfurt School, structuralism, semiology, Marxism, feminism and postmodernism.
Hardback ISBN:0 415 12469 7 £40.00
Paperback ISBN:0 415 12470 0 £11.99

Temple, Julien
Great Rock n Roll Swindle
general level
Polygram: 1982
Video 100mins
A dramatised history of the Sex Pistols, the notorious band who began the new wave of rock. A humourous, cynical look of the music industry.
Video ISBN:62005736970 Price on application

Thorne, Tony
Dictionary of Popular Culture: Fads, Fashions & Cults
general level
Bloomsbury: 1994
320pp 198 x 129
A guide to modern culture which aims to define and explain the vogues in music, philosophy and the arts, the changing tastes in fashion, design and architecture, and the modes in technology, the media and subculture which have shaped our society since 1960.
Paperback ISBN:0 7475 1457 7 £6.99

Waites, Bernard & Bennett, Tony et al (Eds)
Popular Culture: Past and Present
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Routledge: 1981
320pp 216 x 138
Paperback ISBN:0 415 04033 7 £12.99