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cultural studies, cultural sociology, subculture studies, cultural criticism, ethnomusicology, music criticism, culture industry, critical theory, identity, meaning making, fashion, media studies, "cool", authenticity, structuralism, neo-tribalism
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
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76 reviews
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
5,444 members
114 reviews
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
4,986 members
60 reviews
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Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
4,314 members
32 reviews
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
4,062 members
67 reviews
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The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
2,889 members
29 reviews
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Understanding Media
by Marshall McLuhan
2,858 members
23 reviews
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
2,268 members
24 reviews
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
1,993 members
16 reviews
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze
1,971 members
14 reviews
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
1,897 members
20 reviews
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
by Susan Sontag
1,896 members
18 reviews
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by Peter L. Berger
1,698 members
11 reviews
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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
1,558 members
18 reviews
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
1,477 members
15 reviews
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by Pierre Bourdieu
1,433 members
8 reviews
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad
1,381 members
16 reviews
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
1,362 members
1 review
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
1,339 members
20 reviews
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,211 members
19 reviews
3.8
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
1,171 members
13 reviews
3.9
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
by Marshall Berman
1,128 members
11 reviews
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Image, Music, Text
by Roland Barthes
1,114 members
8 reviews
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The Practice of Everyday Life
by Michel de Certeau
1,104 members
10 reviews
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
1,067 members
14 reviews
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Art as Experience
by John Dewey
1,064 members
7 reviews
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We Have Never Been Modern
by Bruno Latour
947 members
7 reviews
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The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
by Theodor W. Adorno
935 members
11 reviews
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
by David Harvey
930 members
6 reviews
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Walter Benjamin
899 members
12 reviews
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About Looking
by John Berger
881 members
5 reviews
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang
873 members
19 reviews
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
by Henry Jenkins
859 members
14 reviews
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The Location of Culture
by Homi K. Bhabha
808 members
2 reviews
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The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells
786 members
4 reviews
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The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T. Hall
761 members
11 reviews
3.9
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The Production of Space
by Henri Lefebvre
737 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
by Sherry Turkle
711 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed
by Joseph Heath
688 members
15 reviews
3.8
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style
by Dick Hebdige
661 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
by Neil Howe
649 members
10 reviews
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Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Žižek
627 members
6 reviews
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
by Hal Foster
556 members
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The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by Mancur Olson
522 members
4 reviews
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Apocalypse Postponed
by Umberto Eco
520 members
2 reviews
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
by Bruno Latour
518 members
2 reviews
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
by Robert M. Emerson
491 members
1 review
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Styles of Radical Will
by Susan Sontag
485 members
2 reviews
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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
by Erik Davis
476 members
5 reviews
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
by Janet H. Murray
426 members
3 reviews
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
by Lizabeth Cohen
421 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
by Thomas Frank
397 members
3 reviews
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The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature
by Pierre Bourdieu
395 members
3.8
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The Weird and the Eerie
by Mark Fisher
381 members
5 reviews
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Conspicuous Consumption
by Thorstein Veblen
379 members
2 reviews
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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
by Simon Reynolds
371 members
13 reviews
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Hip: The History
by John Leland
361 members
1 review
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
by Susan Buck-Morss
360 members
1 review
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music
by Jacques Attali
360 members
3 reviews
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
by Etienne Wenger
346 members
3 reviews
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Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
by Mark Fisher
344 members
3 reviews
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Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
by Arjun Appadurai
343 members
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Modern Primitives : An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
by V. Vale
340 members
1 review
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Highbrow/Lowbrow : The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
by Lawrence Levine
338 members
3 reviews
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss
326 members
2 reviews
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Energy Flash. A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture
by Simon Reynolds
322 members
2 reviews
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Philosophy Of New Music
by Theodor W. Adorno
301 members
1 review
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Sincerity and Authenticity
by Lionel Trilling
292 members
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
by Greil Marcus
287 members
3 reviews
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Nobrow : The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture
by John Seabrook
286 members
4 reviews
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Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
by Laren Stover
273 members
4 reviews
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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
by Julia Kristeva
269 members
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The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason
268 members
10 reviews
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The Future of Nostalgia
by Svetlana Boym
267 members
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The Jargon of Authenticity
by Theodor Adorno
266 members
1 review
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
265 members
4 reviews
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture)
by Tricia Rose
253 members
1 review
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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century
by Hal Foster
250 members
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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
by Paul B. Preciado
240 members
4 reviews
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Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
by Stuart Hall
236 members
2 reviews
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Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
by Stuart Ewen
233 members
1 review
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Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge
by Rudy Rucker
231 members
1 review
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The Soundscape
by R. Murray Schafer
228 members
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Notes on "Camp"
by Susan Sontag
217 members
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The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction
by Jonathan D. Culler
198 members
1 review
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The Idea of Culture
by Terry Eagleton
192 members
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
by Thomas Hine
184 members
2 reviews
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
by Stephen Duncombe
182 members
3 reviews
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Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
by Ann Powers
175 members
1 review
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All Consuming Images: The Politics Of Style In Contemporary Culture
by Stuart Ewen
175 members
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Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism
by Daniel Harris
170 members
3 reviews
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The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise
by Craig O'Hara
169 members
4 reviews
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