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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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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
6,060 members
129 reviews
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
5,926 members
68 reviews
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Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
4,887 members
38 reviews
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
4,660 members
74 reviews
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The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
3,480 members
33 reviews
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Understanding Media
by Marshall McLuhan
3,184 members
26 reviews
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
2,526 members
25 reviews
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
by Susan Sontag
2,291 members
17 reviews
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
2,253 members
17 reviews
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze
2,230 members
13 reviews
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
2,155 members
23 reviews
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by Peter L. Berger
1,897 members
13 reviews
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
1,737 members
19 reviews
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by Pierre Bourdieu
1,640 members
9 reviews
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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
1,623 members
18 reviews
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
1,579 members
2 reviews
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad
1,518 members
17 reviews
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
1,455 members
22 reviews
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,342 members
21 reviews
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
by Marshall Berman
1,283 members
13 reviews
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
1,265 members
15 reviews
3.9
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Image, Music, Text
by Roland Barthes
1,241 members
8 reviews
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The Practice of Everyday Life
by Michel de Certeau
1,213 members
11 reviews
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Art as Experience
by John Dewey
1,203 members
8 reviews
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
1,169 members
14 reviews
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Walter Benjamin
1,128 members
12 reviews
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The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
by Theodor W. Adorno
1,097 members
11 reviews
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We Have Never Been Modern
by Bruno Latour
1,067 members
7 reviews
3.9
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
by David Harvey
1,030 members
6 reviews
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About Looking
by John Berger
1,008 members
7 reviews
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang
955 members
19 reviews
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
by Henry Jenkins
912 members
15 reviews
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The Location of Culture
by Homi K. Bhabha
891 members
2 reviews
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The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T. Hall
881 members
11 reviews
3.9
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The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells
841 members
4 reviews
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The Production of Space
by Henri Lefebvre
817 members
2 reviews
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Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
by Sherry Turkle
749 members
9 reviews
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Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Žižek
738 members
8 reviews
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style
by Dick Hebdige
733 members
6 reviews
3.8
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The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed
by Joseph Heath
730 members
15 reviews
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Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
by Neil Howe
728 members
10 reviews
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
by Hal Foster
608 members
½ 3.5
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Apocalypse Postponed
by Umberto Eco
596 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Weird and the Eerie
by Mark Fisher
589 members
6 reviews
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
by Bruno Latour
577 members
3 reviews
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The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by Mancur Olson
574 members
4 reviews
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Styles of Radical Will
by Susan Sontag
557 members
2 reviews
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
by Robert M. Emerson
556 members
1 review
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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
by Erik Davis
524 members
5 reviews
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace - Updated Edition
by Janet H. Murray
499 members
3 reviews
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Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
by Mark Fisher
497 members
4 reviews
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
by Lizabeth Cohen
470 members
2 reviews
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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
by Simon Reynolds
439 members
14 reviews
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The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature
by Pierre Bourdieu
436 members
1 review
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Conspicuous Consumption
by Thorstein Veblen
429 members
2 reviews
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
by Thomas Frank
410 members
3 reviews
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music
by Jacques Attali
405 members
3 reviews
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
by Susan Buck-Morss
395 members
1 review
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
by Etienne Wenger
373 members
3 reviews
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Highbrow/Lowbrow : The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
by Lawrence Levine
372 members
3 reviews
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Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
by Arjun Appadurai
371 members
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Hip: The History
by John Leland
369 members
1 review
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Notes on "Camp"
by Susan Sontag
368 members
1 review
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Modern Primitives : An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
by V. Vale
363 members
2 reviews
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss
350 members
2 reviews
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Philosophy Of New Music
by Theodor W. Adorno
346 members
2 reviews
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Sincerity and Authenticity
by Lionel Trilling
330 members
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The Future of Nostalgia
by Svetlana Boym
324 members
1 review
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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
by Paul B. Preciado
321 members
4 reviews
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The Jargon of Authenticity
by Theodor Adorno
314 members
2 reviews
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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
by Julia Kristeva
312 members
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
by Greil Marcus
308 members
3 reviews
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
308 members
4 reviews
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Nobrow : The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture
by John Seabrook
292 members
5 reviews
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Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
by Laren Stover
289 members
5 reviews
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
by Tricia Rose
278 members
1 review
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The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason
277 members
10 reviews
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Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
by Stuart Hall
275 members
2 reviews
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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century
by Hal Foster
272 members
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The Soundscape
by R. Murray Schafer
256 members
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Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
by Stuart Ewen
254 members
1 review
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Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge
by Rudy Rucker
247 members
1 review
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The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction
by Jonathan D. Culler
228 members
1 review
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The Idea of Culture
by Terry Eagleton
225 members
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
by Stephen Duncombe
220 members
4 reviews
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Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
by Simon Reynolds
200 members
1 review
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
by Thomas Hine
196 members
2 reviews
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All Consuming Images: The Politics Of Style In Contemporary Culture
by Stuart Ewen
184 members
½ 3.4
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Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
by R. U. Sirius
182 members
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The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise
by Craig O'Hara
182 members
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