University of Georgia Press Straight Into Darkness Tom Petty as Rock Mystic
MEGAN VOLPERT Straight into Darkness is a music historian and pop culture aficionado’s dream—a deeply visceral, exhaustive, and eloquent appreciation for one of the greatest contemporary musicians of our time, Tom Petty. In this acclaimed book, Volpert judges the forty years of Petty’s career.In this highly philosophical and deeply personal exploration of one obscure Tom Petty song, Volpert’s essays comb through the musical, historical, rhetorical and sociological implications of a forgotten gem in a legendary catalog with satisfying results. Megan Volpert is the author/editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree.
Septemeber 2022 168 pages Music Rights: World
Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain
MELISSA GARCÍA-LAMARCA Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People provides a conceptual framework for reading debt as an apparatus for regulating life in Barcelona post 2008 global financial crisis. The book combines political economic analysis with everyday life perspectives to show how the process driving mortgage indebtedness is lived, experienced, and contested by people. García-Lamarca lays out a Marxist analysis of the financialization of housing, Foucault’s biopolitics, and Jacques Ranciere’s political subjectivation to deepen theorization around the human consequences of the destruction of home and the potential for political resistance to these housing injustices. Melissa García-Lamarca is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
October 2022 248 pages Economics/Social issues Rights: World
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