Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Harris M. Berger
A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio’s Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.
How we find and make meaning through music and performance
Robert Walser
A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword
Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in English? If you’re rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination…
Harris M. Berger,Giovanna P. Del Negro
A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
This collection brings together cultural studies and pop music accounts of metal around the world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Brazil, Malta, Slovenia, China, Japan, Norway, Israel, and Easter Island…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
Changing roles of women have reshaped patterns in marriage and divorce, childbearing, living arrangements and aspirations for education and career development. This book provides a statistical picture of women in…
Katz transformed our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, the social-historical significance of Jewish law, the rise of Orthodoxy in Germany and Hungary, and the emergence of modern…