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  • Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Felice Yuen ...
    Series series Research Handbooks in Sociology series
    This incisive Research Handbook investigates the complex and multifaceted field of the sociology of leisure. Expert authors explore the social meaning and purpose of leisure in an era defined by postmodernity, post-industrialism, globalization, and digitalization.The Handbook firstly reflects on the history of leisure studies, moving on to analyse its connection to post-structuralism, racism, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus

    A Rapid Response

    Edited by Brett Lashua, Corey W. Johnson, Diana C. Parry ...
    As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, as well as in its (many) absences, leisure has taken on new significance in both managing and negotiating a global crisis.Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response, amidst the disruption, inconvenience, illness, fear, uncertainty, tragedy, and loss from COVID-19, generates ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

    Edited by Brett Lashua, Simon Baker, Troy Glover ...
    This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Leisure, Activism, and the Animation of the Urban Environment

    Edited by I R Lamond, Brett Lashua, Chelsea Reid ...
    This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism, and the animation of urban environments. The authors share research that explores the meaning and making of activist practices, events of dissent, and the arts in everyday life. Situated in a growing body of activist scholarship and social justice research, within the field of leisure studies, the contributions ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Popular Music in Leeds

    Histories, Heritage, People and Places

    Edited by Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Kitty Ross, Paul Thompson ...
    Series series Urban Music Studies
    This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment.The city has ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Sounds and the City

    Popular Music, Place and Globalization

    Edited by B. Lashua, K. Spracklen, S. Wagg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe, Spencer Swain ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx. Drawing on contributions from experts in leisure studies from around the world, ... Read more

    $370.19 CAD

  • Sounds and the City

    Volume 2

    Edited by Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, M. Selim Yavuz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places, and shifting social relations, asking what popular music can tell us about cities, and vice versa.Since the publication of the first ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • You

    by Vane Lashua ...
    For the past 50-some years I have been threatening to write a book. I've written poetry, political essays, letters-to-the-editor and stories about my life. Some of these are included here. Originally I wanted the title to be "Accidental Tourist" until I found that there is a play and movie by that title. Because I've often found life events and direction somewhat random, it came to me as a good ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • YOU

    by Vane Lashua ...
    For the past 50-some years I have been threatening to write a book. I've written poetry, political essays, letters-to-the-editor and stories about my life. Some of these are included here. Originally I wanted the title to be "Accidental Tourist" until I found that there is a play and movie by that title. Because I've often found life events and direction somewhat random, it came to me as a good ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Popular Music, Popular Myth and Cultural Heritage in Cleveland

    The Moondog, the Buzzard and the Battle for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    by Brett Lashua ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Popular Music and Place
    Drawing from research conducted at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame archives, and the author's experience as a local musician, this book offers a micro-historical case study of Cleveland's popular music heritage. Among just a handful of books dedicated to the popular music heritage of Cleveland, it traces myths of "where rock began to roll" in the self-proclaimed "birthplace of rock and roll". ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Children at the Birth of Empire

    British Law, Liberty, and the Global Migration of Destitute Children, c. 1607–1760

    by Kristen McCabe Lashua ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law.Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute children, launching an experiment in using plantations and ships as a solution for strains on London’s ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD