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DIY Style

Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

By: Brent Luvaas

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DIY Style

Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

By: Brent Luvaas

Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned amateurs more interested in making than consuming. DIY Style tells the story of this international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of one of its biggest, but least known contingents: the "indie" music and fashion scene of the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia. Through rich ethnographic detail, in-depth historical analysis, and cutting-edge social theory, the book chronicles the rise of DIY culture in Indonesia, and also explores the phenomenon in Europe and the United States, painting an evocative portrait of vibrant communities who are not only making and distributing popular culture on their own terms, but working to tear down the barriers between production and consumption, third and first world, global and local. What emerges from the book is a cautiously optimistic view of the future of global capitalism - a creative, collectivist alternative built from the ground up. This exciting and original study is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, fashion, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.

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A&C Black

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0857850474

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9780857850478

Street Style

An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging

By: Brent Luvaas

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Street Style

An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging

By: Brent Luvaas

Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr Award Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion, have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the representations that appear in magazines and on runways, and putting new cities on the fashion world map. This cutting-edge book documents the evolution of street style photography, from the fieldwork photos of early anthropology to the glamorized snapshots that appear on blogs today, and explores the structural shifts in the global fashion industry that street style has helped bring about. Chronicling author and anthropologist Brent Luvaas' experience over three years of blogging through vivid street imagery and rich ethnographic detail, this book turns the lens of street style photography back onto anthropology itself, arguing that the phenomenon is a powerful mode of amateur ethnography. Bloggers blur the distinction between professional and amateur, insider and outsider, self and brand. This book documents that blur from the ground level-from the streets of Philadelphia to the sidewalks of New York Fashion Week. Street Style is an essential read for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies, and fans of street style photography alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474262902

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Other People's Wars

The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts

By: Brent L. Sterling

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Other People's Wars

The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts

By: Brent L. Sterling

Case studies explore how to improve military adaptation and preparedness in peacetime by investigating foreign wars

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Georgetown University Press

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1647120608

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9781647120603

Street Style

An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging

By: Brent Luvaas

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An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging

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DIY Style

Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

By: Brent Adam Luvaas

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Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

By: Brent Adam Luvaas

Through rich ethnographic detail and cutting-edge theory, 'DIY Style' tells the fascinating story of an international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of the 'indie' music and fashion scene in Indonesia.

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