Books in the Studies on Popular Culture series

Celebrities are some of the most prominent faces of philanthropic activity, yet their participation raises certain questions. This book presents case studies of international celebrity philanthropy, looking at the tensions between celebrity activism and ground-level work and the relationship between celebrity philanthropy and cultural citizenship.

English pop music served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about Englishness after World War II. Kallioniemi covers a range of styles of pop as he explores the question of how various artists, genres and pieces of music contributed to the developing understanding of who and what was English in the postwar years.

Memory, Space and Sound presents a collection of essays from scholars in a range of disciplines that together explore the social, spatial and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice. The contributors deploy different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches from musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural history, media studies and cultural studies as they analyse an array of examples, including live performances, music festivals, audiovisual material and much more.

While films have explored national and political borders, they have also attempted to identify, challenge, and imagine frontiers of another kind: social, ethnic, religious, and gendered. This title provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after World War II.

Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. The book frames the tradition of living dead films, discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the viewers, and analyses the films' socio-cultural negotiation with death.