"This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based...

"This book studies the relationship of popular culture to older formations of political economic thought, which have made their way into a range of fictions as a fabulous, though feasible, source of resistance to the hegemony of neoclassical economics."

Exploring the extensive world of HBO's Game of Thrones series to illustrate leadership theories supported by scholarly research, Bend the Knee or Seize the Throne analyzes characters and scenarios from the series to demonstrate and deconstruct different examples of leadership and leader...

"Sounds Irish, Acts Global critically examines both the history of Ireland's popular music industry as well as the current music scene in the country. This book is of interest to business students as well as popular music scholars in addition to non-academic readers."

Introduction: the making of Black womanhood -- Theorizing Black women's cultural influence through consumption -- From riots to style: the history of Black Barbie -- From bootstraps to glass slippers: Black women's uplift in Disney's princess canon -- A Black Barbie's moment: Nicki Minaj and the...

This book explores the relationships between popular music, technology, and the changing media ecosystem. More precisely, it looks at infrastructures and practices of music making and consuming primarily in the post-Napster era of digitization - with some chapters looking back on the...

"Getting busy with the fizzy" : Johansson, SodaStream and Oxfam : exploring the political economics of celebrity activism / Nathan Farrell -- Celebrities in socially engaged campaigns : the making of solidarity capital / Bruno Campanella -- Funded by philanthropy, founded for activism : Nobel...