Books for Sociology of Culture, Spring 2006

The following books have been ordered for Sociology of Culture (Sociology 231, Communication and Culture 230) for the coming semester. They are available at the Clark University Bookstore, but can of course also be ordered from any other source, and are also available at the library reserve desk:

Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics : How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge UP, 1998
ISBN: 052158759X

Wendy Griswold, Cultures and Societies in a Changing World (second edition). Pine Forge Press, 1994
ISBN: 0761930485

Peter Manuel, Cassette Culture : Popular Music and Technology in North India. U of Chicago Press, 1993
ISBN: 0226504018

Américo Paredes, Folklore and Culture on theTexas-Mexican Border. U of Texas Press, 1995
ISBN: 0292765649

Anna Szemere, Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary. Pennsylvania State U Press, 2001
ISBN: 0271021330

Sarah Thornton, Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Wesleyan UP, 1996
ISBN: 0819562971

A syllabus will follow in early January.