An Introduction To Popular Culture In The Us
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| Author | : Jenn Brandt |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2018-01-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1501320599 |
Winner of the Popular Culture Association's 2018 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook / Primer What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power introduces and explores the history and contemporary analysis of popular culture in the United States. In situating popular culture as lived experience through the activities, objects, and distractions of everyday life, the authors work to broaden the understanding of culture beyond a focus solely on media texts, taking an interdisciplinary approach to analyze American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence. After building a foundation of the history of popular culture as an academic discipline, the book looks broadly at cultural myths and the institutional structures, genres, industries, and people that shape the mindset of popular culture in the United States. It then becomes more focused with an examination of identity, exploring the ways in which these myths and mindset are internalized, practiced, and shaped by individuals. The book concludes by connecting the broad understanding of popular culture and the unique individual experience with chapters dedicated to the objects, communities, and celebrations of everyday life. This approach to the field of study explores all matters of culture in a way that is accessible and relevant to individuals in and outside of the classroom.
| Author | : Rachel Lee Rubin |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0814775535 |
Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how particular trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the 1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. Supplemented by a timeline of key events, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers a unique history of twentieth-century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the study of popular culture.
| Author | : John Storey |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education |
| Total Pages | : 674 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780137761210 |
A reader on popular culture
| Author | : Kevern Verney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136475273 |
This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines: * the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport, film, television, radio and music * how the entertainment industry has encouraged racism through misrepresentations and caricatured images of African Americans. African Americans have made a unique contribution to the richness and diversity of US popular culture. Rooted in African society and traditions, black slaves in America created a dynamic culture which continues to evolve. Present day hip-hop and rap music are still shaped by the historical experience of slavery and the ongoing will to oppose oppression and racism. Any student of African-American history or cultural studies will find this a fascinating and highly useful book.
| Author | : LeRoy Ashby |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 713 |
| Release | : 2006-05-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813123976 |
With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.
| Author | : Arthur A. Natella, Jr. |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0786451483 |
This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries. Several chapters provide detailed accounts of daily life, including descriptions of contemporary dress, mealtime traditions, transportation, and traditional ways of conducting business. Other chapters focus on the cultural significance of the popular music, art, and literature prevalent in each Latin American country. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
| Author | : Bruce David Forbes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520965221 |
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools
| Author | : Carla Freccero |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1999-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0814726690 |
The concise introduction to the study of popular culture From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.
| Author | : Marcel Danesi |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1442217839 |
Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning.The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students."
| Author | : Kathleen Franz |
| Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Amusements |
| ISBN | : 9780495911722 |
MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, International Edition is part of a highly respected series of edited collections of primary documents and scholarly essays designed for use in history courses at the undergraduate level. The basic goal of these texts is to provide students and instructors with the most distinguished, readable, and stimulating writing available: essays centered on major historical questions, complemented by related primary source materials.
