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The volume on a standard amp goes to 10.

Born and raised on the streets of Southtown, two exits from the Mexico border, Sonny Sandoval was always going to go his own way.

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture-music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms-and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically.

Can music be made "e;independently"e; in the 21st century?

In 1999, Modest Mouse struck out for Chicago to record their major-label debut for Epic Records.

This long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia.

Told as much through images as through words, a young Nepalese mans globe-spanning relationship with the father of American surrealism changes the course of his life and gives him a new set of roots.

How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?

This pioneering study provides a critical appraisal of pop star Kylie Minogue.

With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix.

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s.

Hailed as a "e;quiet masterpiece"e; upon release, Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music.

Peggy Rowe is at it again, proving once more that great content is all around us, even in the retirement community she now calls "e;The Home.