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Heavy Metal

The Music And Its Culture

By: Deena Weinstein

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Heavy Metal

The Music And Its Culture

By: Deena Weinstein

Few forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also attracted a chorus of critics, who have denounced it as a corrupter of youth—even blamed it for tragedies like the murders at Columbine. Deena Weinstein argues that these fears stem from a deep misunderstanding of the energetic, rebellious culture of metal, which she analyzes, explains, and defends. She interprets all aspects of the metal world—the music and its makers, its fans, its dress code, its lyrics—and in the process unravels the myths, misconceptions, and truths about an irreverent subculture that has endured and evolved for twenty years.

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Da Capo Press

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0786751037

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9780786751037

Rock'n America

A Social and Cultural History

By: Deena Weinstein

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Rock'n America

A Social and Cultural History

By: Deena Weinstein

What is rock? This book offers a new and systematic approach to understanding rock by applying sociological concepts in a historical context. Deena Weinstein, a rock critic, journalist, and academic, starts by outlining an original approach to understanding rock, explaining how the form has developed through a complex and ever-changing set of relations between artists, fans, and mediators. She then traces the history of rock in America through its distinctive eras, from rock's precursors to rock in the digital age. The book includes suggested listening lists to accompany each chapter, a detailed filmography of movies about rock, and a wide range of visuals and fascinating anecdotes. Never separating rock music from the social, political, economic, and cultural changes in America's history, Rock'n America provides a comprehensive overview of the genre and a new way of appreciating its place in American society.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442600187

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Postmodernized Simmel

By: Deena Weinstein,Michael Weinstein

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Postmodernized Simmel

By: Deena Weinstein,Michael Weinstein

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 contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory

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Routledge

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1317831594

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Heavy Metal

The Music And Its Culture

By: Deena Weinstein

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The Music And Its Culture

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A Social and Cultural History

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Bureaucratic Opposition

Challenging Abuses at the Workplace

By: Deena Weinstein

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Bureaucratic Opposition

Challenging Abuses at the Workplace

By: Deena Weinstein

Bureaucratic Opposition: Challenging Abuses at the Workplace focuses on bureaucratic oppositions that reveal the "informal dimensions of behavior within bureaucracies. This book is an attempt to show that contemporary bureaucratic organizations are not only administrative entities but are also political structures in the sense that power, conflict, and domination are normal within them. This text is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the myth of neutral administration and proposes the alternative political interpretation of organizations. The grounds or "good reasons for oppositions and their normative justifications are systematically detailed in Chapter 2. The third and fourth chapters discuss the "empirical dimension, detailing the barriers that oppositions confront in getting underway and the strategies that they employ once they have been initiated. The last chapter analyzes some of the responses to oppositions by the official hierarchy and some of the policies that have been proposed to eliminate the abuses uncovered by dissidents. This publication is a good reference for students and specialists interested in bureaucratic oppositions.

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159

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Elsevier

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1483182134

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9781483182131

From the Courtroom to the Boardroom

Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United States

By: Deena Varner

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From the Courtroom to the Boardroom

Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United States

By: Deena Varner

The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of “law and order,” referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system has been and remains to be, there has been a shift in recent years shaped by neoliberalism—the political, economic, and sociocultural program that has supplanted liberal democratic legal frameworks, subordinating them to operations of the market and mandating that private entities intervene in the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of law. While courts and legislatures play a significant role in shaping legal personhood in the neoliberal United States, private, profit-driven institutions are increasingly responsible for determining the post-sentence consequences that people with criminal convictions face. The result has been a move from the courtroom to the boardroom, from a law-and-order society to a policy-and-order society. From the Courtroom to the Boardroom is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project that examines the role of the criminal justice system in implementing neoliberal restructuring in the United States, including the partial transfer of quasi-judicial authority to employers, landlords, lenders, social media companies, and other businesses. In this important study, Deena Varner examines the way the consumer background report industry has privatized the surveillance and punishment of individuals, conflating crime with bad credit and eviction history. She positions Airbnb’s 2018 policy of banning people convicted of crimes as an example of the way corporate entities are increasingly vested with the authority to determine things like the seriousness or severity of crimes. Varner also tackles the phenomenon of “cancel culture,” arguing that this is best understood not as a feature of the culture wars but rather as a partial return to what Foucault described as the punitive model of infamy, in which the responsibility for punishing has been transferred from the state to individuals.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700636595

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9780700636594

Sitting at the Feet of Gurus

The Life and Dance Ethnography of Claire Holt

By: Deena Burton

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Sitting at the Feet of Gurus

The Life and Dance Ethnography of Claire Holt

By: Deena Burton

Deena Burton is well known for her accomplishments as a dancer, choreographer, producer, and scholar of Indonesian Arts. In the course of her research she came across the pioneering work of Claire Holt, who had written about art and culture in New York and Europe, especially the rise of Modern Dance, between the fi rst and second World Wars. During a trip to Indonesia in 1930 Claire Holt became enamored of Javanese dance. She stayed for many years, on and off, and was among the community of artists and anthropologists living in Bali at that time including Walter Spies, Colin McPhee, Miguel Covarrubias, Margaret Mead and others who were both deeply infl uenced by this ancient culture and obsessive in documenting Indonesias emergence into the 20th century. This book, which began as Deenas PhD dissertation, is a tribute to her own dedication and that of a kindred spirit - Claire Holt and their love for the arts and peoples of Indonesia. (Pictured above is a young Deena Burton beginning a masked dance).

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462835880

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9781462835881

A Brief History of the Female Body

An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

By: Dr. Deena Emera

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A Brief History of the Female Body

An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

By: Dr. Deena Emera

From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause—A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens. Let's face it: The female body is an enigma. For teenagers first experiencing their periods, the monthly arrival of mood swings and cramps can be agonizing and inconvenient. With pregnancy—perhaps the most miraculous of bodily events—comes countless potential complications, including high blood pressure, diabetes, premature birth, and postpartum depression. And menopause is equally mystifying. Why do females lose their fertility over time and experience the notorious side effects—like hot flashes, weight gain, and hair loss—while males maintain their fertility forever? Evolutionary geneticist and educator Dr. Deena Emera has spent much of her career studying the evolution of female reproduction. A Brief History of the Female Body draws on her vast expertise as a biologist, her experience as a mother of four children, and her love of teaching to look far into our evolutionary past, illuminating how and, more importantly, why the female form has transformed over millions of years and its effects on women's health.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728275164

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9781728275161

Postmodernized Simmel

By: Deena Weinstein,Michael Weinstein

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Bureaucratic Opposition

Challenging Abuses at the Workplace

By: Deena Weinstein

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Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal

Rock'n America

Rock'n America

Postmodernized Simmel

Postmodernized Simmel

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal

Rock'n America

Rock'n America

Bureaucratic Opposition

Bureaucratic Opposition

From the Courtroom to the Boardroom

From the Courtroom to the Boardroom

Sitting at the Feet of Gurus

Sitting at the Feet of Gurus

A Brief History of the Female Body

A Brief History of the Female Body

Postmodernized Simmel

Postmodernized Simmel

Bureaucratic Opposition

Bureaucratic Opposition

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