"We can do little to escape the experience of the United States of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From black face minstrelsy, rap music and fiction to McDonald's, rock festivals and Star Trek, the cultural con ..."
The Pop Festival History, Music, Media, Culture by GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-62356-820-7, ISBN: 1-62356-820-X
"'I'm going to camp out on the land ...try and get my soul free'. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on 'Woodstock'. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features of seasonal popular cultural consumption for young people and older generations of enthusiasts. From pop and rock to folk, jazz and techno, under stars and canvas, dancing in the streets and in the mu ..."
Shakin' All Over(Updated) Popular Music and Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) by GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-07209-5, ISBN: 0-472-07209-9
"Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it’s surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability. George McKay’s Shakin’ All Over is a cross-disciplinary examination of the ways in which popular music performers have addressed disability: in the ..."
"Deluxe leather bound edition. Features gold stenciling on cover and spine, gold page edging on all three sides. Place keeper ribbon."
Animals An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Karen Mcghee, GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-74178-148-9, ISBN: 1-74178-148-5
"Get ready to take a walk on the wild side! National Geographic Children's Books' brand-new reference work provides families and children with everything they need to know about the animal kingdom. You'll meet more than 1,000 animals as you explore the pages of National Geographic Encyclopedia of Animals. This comprehensive volume introduces the entire animal kingdom: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and all kinds of invert ..."
"This comprehensive encyclopedia presents a wide-ranging survey of four major groups of living things: mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The text is written by a team of international experts in the zoological sciences."
Senseless Acts of Beauty Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties by GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-908-8, ISBN: 1-85984-908-3
"... of travellers' vehicles allowed to park up on a piece of land. It was precisely the
inclusive breadth of the government's proposals that enabled the Labour
opposition to abstain in Parliament, rather than organize against them (this was
left to the unelected chamber of the House of Lords). Labour effectively
overlooked the Act's blatantly repressive aspects, sidestepping the awkward
issue of standing up for people's rights. Mic ..."
"New York, New York, U.S.A.: Gallery Books, 1990. very good hardcover in very good dustjacket, corner bump, some corner wear (minor) , no markings, clean copy, AN505494. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9"
"The Encyclopedia of Animals is a lavishly illustrated, authoritative, and comprehensive exploration of the rich and intriguing world of animals. Written by an international team of specialists, spectacularly adorned with a gallery of more than 2,000 color illustrations, and supplemented with distribution maps, detailed and beautifully rendered diagrams, and some of the world's finest wildlife photographs, this volume will become the sta ..."
"The Encyclopedia of Animals is a lavishly illustrated, authoritative, and comprehensive exploration of the rich and intriguing world of animals. Written by an international team of specialists, spectacularly adorned with a gallery of more than 2,000 color illustrations, and supplemented with distribution maps, detailed and beautifully rendered diagrams, and some of the world's finest wildlife photographs, this volume will become the sta ..."
"Mammals are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom; most are beautiful, and many are highly intelligent and have intricate social systems. They are found in all kinds of habitats; they may have fur, scales, or spines; they move by hopping, swimming, running, or flying. What all mammals share, apart from certain anatomical similarities, is the unique ability to nourish their young with milk from mammary glands.Many species of mammal ..."
DIY Culture Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain by GeorgeMckay Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 1998 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-878-4, ISBN: 1-85984-878-8
"For putting me on to other sources and documents, thanks to Mike Waite, Sylvia
Ayling, Alan Rice, Godfrey Featherstone, Tom Cahill, John Moore, Tim Jordan,
Anne Beech, Fabiana Forni, Chris Atton, Alan Dearling, Nina Taylor, Jo Norcup.
Thanks to Mum and Jim, for arguments about New Labour, and much else
besides, and Ran, too. Finally, at Verso thanks to Jane Hindle, Sophie Arditti,
Amelia la Fuente, Robin Blackburn, Sebastian Budgen ..."