Rhododendrons: Their Care and Cultivation (Cassell Illustrated Monographs)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Street, John

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cassell

This volume provides a broad-ranging acount of the relationship between politics and technology in the modern world. It shows how political processes and values shape the developmentof technology and, in turn , how new technologies influence the conduct of politics. The core concern of the book is how democratic control can be exercised in all aspects of technological decision- making and how technology can be used to extend demmocracy. Street shows that much publicized 'natural' disasters from the explosions at Chernobyl and Bhopal to the erosion of the ozone layer have politicalas well as technologicalcauses and examines the way in which telecomunications, biotechnology and other technologies are used both to serve and subvert politcal aspirations.

Politics & Technology

Macmillan

Mass Media, Politics and Democracy provides a broad overview of all aspects of the relationship between the media and politics. Drawing its examples from a wide range of developed liberal democracies, the book combines an accessible account of the political impact and regulation of the mass media today with an assessment of the democratic potential and anti-democratic dangers of new media technologies.

Mass Media, Politics, and Democracy

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Mass Media, Politics and Democracy provides a broad overview of all aspects of the relationship between the media and politics. Drawing its examples from a wide range of developed liberal democracies, the book combines an accessible account of the politic

Mass Media, Politics and Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jose Artigas, the national hero of Uruguay, fought in the years 1811-1820 for the creation and maintenance of an independent state on the banks of the River Plate. Dr Street's study takes Artigas as the principal figure and Uruguay as the chief state concerned, but it is also a history of the whole basin of the Plate during the period, giving proper weight to the Spanish and Portuguese influence, British commercial interests and military invasions, and the local rivalry between Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Uruguay eventually became a buffer state between the once Portuguese Brazil and the once Spanish Argentina. Dr Street shows that there had long been a feeling of Uruguayan nationalism, though this was at one time counterbalanced by a movement to federate the countries of the Plate. These tendencies, and the history of the region at this period are important in understanding the present status and relationships of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay

History

World

Cambridge University Press

This analysis of pop music ranges over Britain, Europe, America and the Soviet Union. It covers the period from the 1950s to the prsent day, while tracing the roots of pop much further back. From soul, folk, jazz and rock to flower power, punk and reggae, the book looks at the many meanings of pop music today, whether in terms of propaganda, protest or palliative.

Rebel rock: The politics of popular music

Arts & Photography

Music

Blackwell

Describes the influence of popular music on politics, examines the lifestyles and political awareness of top rock groups, and discusses aspects of the music industry

Rebel Rock: The Politics of Popular Music

Blackwell Pub.

Rhododendrons (Classic garden plants)

Century Co.

In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in television sitcoms, politics and popular culture have become inextricably linked. In order to understand this evolving relationship, author John Street argues that we must understand that each is a form of the other. Popular culture involves the organizing of our pleasure, and therefore our values, identities, and interests. At the same time, our pleasure depends on a series of political decisions and processes which in turn shape that culture. Did East German rock musicians contribute to bringing down the Berlin wall? How does popular culture create feelings of compassion, empathy, or affinity? Street reflects on the use of popular culture to raise money and awareness via the concert for a cause, such a Live Aid, Farm Aid, and Comic Relief. What role does censorship play in our appreciation and acceptance of popular culture, as well as in the development of an ideology? Ferreting out the debate between those who see the political nature of popular culture as a form of manipulation and those who see it as populist self-expression, Street argues that such an approach limits our perspective. This book attempts to expand our understanding of the ways the production and consumption of poplar culture rare organized, and, concurrently, how political judgments are inherent in engendering and enjoying pop culture.

Politics and Popular Culture

Polity

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