Michael Pickering Livres

Focusing on the unique British trajectory of blackface minstrelsy, the book explores its impact on popular culture in the UK and its connections to other Anglophone nations, including South Africa and Australia. It highlights the lack of scholarly work in Britain compared to the extensive studies in the United States, while examining the cultural exchanges and influences that shaped this controversial performance tradition across different contexts, including colonial and postcolonial settings.

The new edition is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication to perform and analyze research tasks. With detailed introductions to the major research methods, the book gives detailed examples of research and analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. It also includes an expanded and updated section on the internet, online databases and the latest CAQDAS (Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) packages, as well as new case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.

Media and Politics Around the World: Global Media Models provides a framework for students as well as instructors to understand how diverse media are, and how politic and media affect one another. Including new models that provide a clear analytical tool for students to see how politics and media work in the world today, this textbook characterizes almost 100 countries and compares their media systems. Focusing on a wide variety of countries and regions, including non-western and non-democratic countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, each chapter explores an important factor in comparative politics and media, including the meaning and difference between ’developing’ and 'developed’ countries when it comes to politics, the definition of media-systems and the purposes media serve, and how media and democracy interact or threaten one another. Case studies demonstrate how models can be applied to multiple regions worldwide, illustrating the similarities and differences of their media-systems and politics. With extra case studies and ancillary materials online, Media and Politics Around the World is designed for students studying Media and Politics as part of wider Media Studies and Political Sciences courses. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in scope and comprehensive in content, this textbook provides the perfect comparative overview of global media and political systems worldwide.

Focusing on the interplay between music and community, this book explores how songs reflect the lives of villagers and their cultural traditions. It provides insights into the significance of song within social practices, illustrating its integral role in the daily lives and cultural identity of the people. Through this examination, the work highlights the deep connections between music and the social fabric of rural life.

This book delves into the evolution of music in the workplace throughout Britain's history, tracing its significance from pre-industrial times to the modern era. It examines how music has influenced labor, productivity, and social interactions in various work environments, highlighting the cultural impact and changing roles of music in different industries over time. Through historical analysis, it reveals the integral relationship between music and the working experience in Britain.

Royal Shoemakers Rayne was founded by Henry and Mary Rayne in London in 1885, and were the pre-eminent British ladies luxury shoe brand throughout the Twentieth Century.

The Compass Dances is a collection of poems written from 1955 to 2015; the work of almost a lifetime. Influenced by the author's long absence from England, this strikingly original collection provides unique reflection on simultaneously writing in two languages, far away from the familiarity of home.