New Cultural Capitals Urban Pop Cultures in Focus 1st Edition by Leonard Koos 9781848881778 1848881770

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• ISBN 10: 1848881770
• ISBN 13: 9781848881778
• Author: Leonard Koos 

The modern city, the locus of contemporary popular cultural production, is also the site where marginal if not marginalised individuals and groups invariably coalesce and develop their distinctive practices, representations, and identities in the interstices of established culture. The chapters in this volume explore the urban pop cultural imagination in the modern metropolis in three sections. ‘Visible Cities,’ analyses those visual phenomena in the modern city that attest to the complicating presence of otherwise marginalised agents and spaces. ‘Recreations,’ considers those leisure-time practices that nonetheless demarcate the parameters of resistance and identity for their participants. Finally, ‘Urban Planning,’ examines the ways by which cities are evoked, used, and reconceptualised by the pop cultural imagination. Whether verbal or written, physical or virtual, produced or received by individuals or groups, the representations and practices examined in this volume attest to the dynamic nature of urban popular cultures, a presence that has ultimately transformed the ways by which we understand and appreciate urban existence.

Table contents:

1. Preliminary Material
2. Graffiti, Street Art, Urban Art: Terminological Problems and Generic Properties
3. Visual Kei: Practices of Gender and Body in a Translocal Subculture
4. Crossing the ‘I Love You Bridge’: Gentrification and the Contemporary Picturesque
5. Speaking of the Suburbs: Verlan and the Culture of the French Banlieue
6. Sexual Autonomy and Non-Monogamy in the Boston Anarchist Community
7. Basque Radical Rock: The Rock of Stateless People
8. The Real Czech Emcees Please Stand Up! Construction of Authenticity in Czech Rap Music
9. Berlin: A Hacker City?
10. Evidence, Evocation and Public Memory in Rockstar Games´ Virtual Cityscapes
11. ‘Do-It-Yourself’: Grassroots Music-Making and the D.I.Y. Music Community in Glasgow, Scotland

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