Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

5 best books like Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Arjun Appadurai): England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Role Models

England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond

Author	Jon Savage
ISBN	0312288220

England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Author	Jim DeRogatis
ISBN	0767905091

Let it Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder or wrote better–more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the...

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

Author	Brendan Mullen
ISBN	0609807749

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and...

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Author	Dick Hebdige
ISBN	0415039495

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers...

Role Models

Author	John Waters
ISBN	0374251479

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown,...