... olfactory, audio, and even taste architectures of retailers and hotel-casinos as well as the politics of touching in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. The chapter presents these often overlooked impulses as powerful and active vectors of the commercial environment. By exploring examples of each individual mode...

... and retail outlets flourished among tape traders, underpinning informal networks of distribution within and between music scenes. The traffic in re-recorded tapes both influenced new musicians and sustained the legacies of older ones, aiding crucially in processes of everyday canon-making at a time when many...

... for Women conducted studies of the toy market and staged demonstrations outside industry trade shows and toy retailers. Ms. magazine published an annual toy shopping guide. And in 1973, feminists joined forces with other activists, including leaders of the anti–war toy campaigns, to form the Public Action...

... This chapter tells the story of the 1858 uprising in the Point neighborhood of St. John’s. Job competition between Antiguan and Barbudan dockworkers sparked the outburst. Over several days, Antiguans progressed from attacking the persons and property of Barbudans to targeting Madeiran retailers...

... a visual and discursive message that personal style blogging is effortless. Chapter 5 discusses how bloggers’ invisibilization of their labors are taste work strategies in and of themselves. By literally taking out of the picture and the blog posts the many levels of physical, consumer, retail...