THE RISE OF BRANDS

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Also available in hardback 9781845203832 55.00 (October 2007)Liz Moor is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University.Brands and logos are all around us from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy to the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities created by the media. We regard the brand as a new phenomenon something born with the consumer society but branding was born with civilization its earliest examples dating to the Roman Empire.Branding is now a growing industry applied not only to commodities but to charities cities the worlds of sport and entertainment even government initiatives. Such is the ubiquity and power of branding that it is increasingly taken as a sign of the commodification of everyday life and the rapacity of corporate power. Examining the brand in history the growth of national and global brands the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising The Rise of Brands analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.Tracing the phenomenon of brands back to the Roman Empire The Rise of Brands provides a detailed and indispensable analysis of how branding has developed and how it operates in contemporary society.1. Introduction: The Rise of Brands2. The Brand in History3. Brands Culture and Economy4. Branded Spaces5. Intellectual and Other Forms of Property6. National Brands and Global BrandsConclusionA terrific introductory text on a highly pervasive phenomenon: well researched highly accessible and eminently readable. Moor takes us from the emergence of branding as a mark of origin or ownership to its current ascendancy as an abstract experiential form of communication that is endlessly promoted and feverishly protected by its keepers including nonprofits and political parties.Matt Soar Concordia University Canada.

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