The multicultural Midlands Commercial & Industrial

The multicultural Midlands Commercial & IndustrialThe multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the regions irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers, critics and the culture industries.

Through interviews with celebrities and entertainment industry practitioners

but written in an engaging manner accessible to non-specialists

and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic

like civic festivities or pilgrimages

photo archives

the US and the UK recount their experiences

this book presents an in-depth account from the 1970s to the present of the major issues concerning information flow in international geopolitics

Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’

The book includes a glossary and detailed filmography

embodied dramaturgy is needed to meet the demands of current listening cultures

First in the field to look at how Hollywood blockbusters are marketed in Britain

the study explores attitudes towards ageing