BOOM! - a baby boomer memoir, 1947-2022 PDF Download

Author: Ted Polhemus
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1470999951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll . . . Straight from the fridge - I Love Lucy meets The Sopranos in The Twilight Zone. From Elvis to Johnny Rotten, Neptune, New Jersey (with Greetings from Asbury Park) to Swinging London. Some say 'it all happened in the 60s' but in BOOM! anthropologist and social historian Ted Polhemus shows how the roots of our (post) modern age go back to the heady years just after WWII. If you like Mad Men, Blade Runner, American Graffiti, Blow-up, The Wild One . . . wish you'd caught Monk at Minton's Playhouse in 1947, Springsteen at The Stone Pony or The Pistols in London in 1976 (or not) . . . Ted Polhemus' other works include Streetstyle, Fashion & Anti-fashion, Style Surfing and Body Styles.

Author: Elias G. Carayannis
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303014903X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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This book argues that ideas in the social realm are the context-bound products of distinct histories and cultures and thus cannot be co-opted across place and time. When ideas are used out of context, they become mere empty words that are depicted as absolute ideals, independent of the specific historical circumstances in which they were conceived. Therefore, highly ideologically guidelines based on one-size-fits-all principles are doomed to fail. The book emphasizes that the dominant Western intellectual paradigm has not improved human society in either Western or non-Western parts of the world. Some of the book's objectives are to rethink the dominant paradigm and invent a new world. We face an existential crisis that requires a new vision of the world and its well-being: one that is more inclusive and attentive to the diversity of people, histories, and cultures. We must remember that diversity in beliefs and values is the very essence of our humanity. This seminal work is essential reading for researchers of economic growth and development, political science, and innovation.

Author: Richard Cabut
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785353470
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy, filtered through punk experience, while believing in the ruins of memory, to explore a past whose essence is always elusive.

Author: Ted Polhemus
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781981078899
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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BEAUTY - ADORNMENT - MODESTY - EROTICISM - STYLE & FASHION You upload your brain into a super computer. Are you still you? Anthropologist Ted Polhemus suggests not - meaning, communication and identity derive from the dynamic interface of mind and body. To be is to be incorporated. An anthropology professor once urged Ted Polhemus to study a 'serious' subject rather than 'fashion'. For more than four decades he has sought to prove this professor wrong - exploring how, far from frivolous, the decoration, modification and dress of the body has always and will always be fundamental and essential to what it means to be human. In Body Styles Ted Polhemus brings together all the varied strands of his explorations of the one and only Decorated Ape. Body Styles was first published in 1988. This new version updates and revises its research and text to bring into the 21st century. Also by Ted Polhemus: Fashion & Anti-fashion, Streetstyle, BOOM! - a baby boomer memoir, 1947 - 2022

Author: Ted Polhemus
Publisher: Pymca
ISBN: 9780956278814
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A remarkable social and cultural inversion has occurred in the last fifty years: where once culture was the monopoly of the upper classes, it now, more often than not, bubbles up from those on the wrong side of the tracks. This transformation has been especially evident in the world of style - with the authenticity of streetstyle challenging and then toppling the dictatorship of High Fashion.

Author: Ted Polhemus
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1447739361
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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Exploring adornment and dress from an anthropological perspective - a classic text from 1978 revised with a new introduction and postscript for the 21 century.

Author: Monica Sklar
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472557336
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Punk Style examines the dress of this incredibly diverse, long-lasting and hugely influential subculture and its impact on mainstream fashion. Taking a comprehensive approach, the book includes a historical overview, a discussion of motivations behind dress practices, and a review of fashion cycles and merchandising methods. Punk is frequently positioned as a forerunner of trends that later become commonplace, as demonstrated in the proliferation and acceptance of body modification, the repeated use of deconstruction as a design aesthetic, and the recent boom in fashion that reflects DIY style through handmade crafts. The book explores how this dominant subcultural style continues to expand via the internet, youth buying-power, and the constant re-appropriation of its distinctive styles. This accessible text brings the discussion of punk fashion up-to-date and provides a concise overview for students and scholars and general readers interested in the punk subculture.

Author: Ted Polhemus
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500278956
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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A look at postmodern British fashion shows how various ethnic, period, and street styles are being combined and transformed

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555847153
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A #1 New York Times bestseller: “An everyman’s guide to Washington” by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times). P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by renowned journalist Andrew Ferguson—showing us that although the names may change, the game stays the same . . . or, occasionally, gets worse. Parliament of Whores is a “gonzo civics book” that takes us through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and Beltway bureaucracy, leaving no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched (Chicago Tribune). “Insulting, inflammatory, profane, and absolutely great reading.” —The Washington Post Book World

Author: Ted Polhemus
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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[note: for superior quality photographic reproduction see The Decorated Ape - B&W Vertical - SPECIAL EDITION] >Punks, Rockers, Ravers, Goths, Teddy Boys, New Romantics, Head Bangers, New Psychedelics, Rockabillies, Skinheads . . . between the late '70s and the end of the 20th century Ted Polhemus photographed them all. And more - never before in human history have we had such freedom to dress and decorate ourselves in whatever style we want. 99 Black & White, vertical format images demonstrate the flowering of street style as the dictatorship of fashion went out of fashion and subcultural or idiosyncratic, personal sampling & mixing style took over. The author of Street Style, Fashion & Anti-fashion and Style Surfing, Ted Polhemus is also a photographer and The Decorated Ape represents the first collection of the best of some 40+ years of his recording and celebrating the visual creativity which bubbles up from the street. Additionally > 'The First 100,000 Years of The Decorated Ape' is a brief text which puts in context why and how human beings became the only species which deliberately and consciously alters its appearance - from tribal style to fashion, then back to the tribal style of subcultures and on to the explosion of personal, individual creativity which characterizes life in the 21st century. Also 'Notes on Street Style Photography' and extensive captions. Contains a small amount of nudity and a few images some might find offensive. Not appropriate for children or stylistically unadventurous adults.