Taking on an often-maligned genre of music, the author explores the myths and misrepresentations that surround the music, while offering a candid look at the subculture it has produced. Reprint.
What is rock? This lively new book suggests that to answer such a seemingly simple question, we must first understand the music in its social and cultural context, including how social relations betwe
Originally published in 1993,this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important
Anticipating contemporary deconstructive readings of philosophical texts, Georg Simmel pits the two German masters of philosophy of life against each other in a play of opposition and supplementation.
