Popular Culture: Bibliography
Books:
James Agee, Agee on Film.
Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary
Criticism.
J.J.C Andrews, The Well-Built Elephant and Other Roadside Attractions: a Tribute
to American Eccentricity.
Erik Barnouw, Mass Communication: Television, Radio, Film, Press. The Media
and their Practice in the United States of America.
Robert C. Allen, Speaking of Soap Operas.
Warren J. Belasco, Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945.
Gary Dean Best, The Nickle and Dime Decade: American Popular Culture During the
1930s
Carl N. Bode, The Anatomy of American Popular Culture: 1840-1861.
Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit.
Linda Keller Brown and Kay Mussell, eds., Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the
United States: The Performance of Group Identity.
Charles J. Correll, All about Amos 'n' Andy and their creators Correll and
Gosden.
Joe DiMeglio, Vaudeville U.S.A.
Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are.
Patrick Ely, The Adventures of Amos n’ Andy.
Ken Emerson, Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture.
Stewart Ewen, All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary
Culture.
Steward and Elizbeth Ewen, Channels of Desire.
John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture.
David Glassberg, American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the
Early Twentieth Century.
Abel Green and Joe Laurie, Jr., Showbiz: From Vaude to Video.
Ian Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture 1890-1945.
James Guimond, American Photography and the American Dream.
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class
Culture in America, 1830-1875.
William M. Hammel, The Popular Arts in America: A Reader.
Jim Harmon, The Great Radio Heroes.
Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut, The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury.
Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of Pl T. Barnum.
Mary Jane Higby, Tune in Tommorrow.
LaVahn G. Hoh and William H. Rough, Step Right Up! The Adventure of Circus in
America.
Michele Holmes, Radio Voices: American Broadcasting `1922-1952.
Daniel Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society
in America, 1875-1940.
Glenwood Irons, ed., Gender, Language and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative.
John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century.
Chester H. Liebs, Mainstreet to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture.
George Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture.
Robert S. Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture.
J. Fred MacDonald, Don’t Touch That Dial: Radio Programming in American Life
1920-1960.
Brooks McNamara, Day of Jubilee: The Great Age of Public Celebrations in New
York 1788-1909.
Brooks McNamara, Step Right Up: The Medicine Show in America.
Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV.
Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women.
Carol Moog, Are they Selling Her Lips?: Advertising and Identity.
Theodore Morrison, Chataqua: A center for Education, Religion, and the Arts in
America.
David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements.
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Amusements in Turn of the
Century New York.
Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio.
Russell B. Nye, The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America.
Waverly Root and Richard de Rougemont, Eating in America: A History
Roy Rozensweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an
Industrial City, 1870-1920.
Gilbert Seldes, The Public Arts.
Gilbert Seldes, The Seven Lively Arts.
Christopher Shaw and Malcolm Chase, eds., The Imagined Past: History and
Nostalgia.
Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio The Commercialization of American Broadcasting
1920-1934.
John Storey, An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.
Robert C. Toll, On with the Show: The First Century of Show Business in America.
Robert C. Toll, Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in 19th Century America.
John Storey, And Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.
,Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture.
Raymond William Stedman, The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment.
Jack Sullivan, The Signs of Our Times.
Warren Susman, ed., Culture and Commitment: 1925-1945.
Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Matthew
Brady to Walker Evans.
Robert Warshow, The Immediate Experience.
Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, The Culture of Consumption:
Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980.
David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.
Leo Digital:
X Robert Allen, Ch. 5, from Speaking of Soap Operas.
X Gerald Nachman, The Anti-Comedian, Nesting Instincts, Treadmill to Posterity,
Wise Guys Finish First, and Jokes, Inc., from Raised on Radio.
X Margaret McFadden, “America’s Boyfriend Who Can’t Get a Date: Gender, Race,
and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932-1945,” Journal of American
History, v. 80, June 1993, pp. 113-24.
X David Nasaw, chs. 1-3, 5-7, 9-10, from Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public
Amusements
X Michael Denning, Chs. 9 and 10 from Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and WorkingClass Culture in America.
X Ian Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture 1890-1945 (“Envisioning Consumer
Culture”)
X Stuart Hall, “Encoding, decoding” in Simon During, ed., The Cultural Studies
Reader, pp. 90-103.
X Raymond Williams, “Advertising: The Magic System”, in Simon During, ed., The
Cultural Studies Reader, pp.320-336.
X Roy Rosenzweig, “The Rise of the Saloon,” from Eight Hours for What We Will,
pp. 35-64 and “Immigrant workers and the Fourth of July,” pp. 65-90.
Chase and Shaw, “The Dimensions of Nostalgia,” in Christopher Shaw and Malcolm
Chase, eds., The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia. Pp. 1-17.
David Lowenthal, “The Dimensions of Nostalgia,” in Christopher Shaw and Malcolm
Chase, eds., The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia, pp. 18-32.
Chester H. Liebs, “From Main Street to Miracle Mile,” in From Main Street to
Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture, pp. 3-37.
Erik Barnouw, “The History of Mass Communication,” from Mass Communication:
Television, Radio, Film, Press, pp. 3-47.
X Robert C. Toll, “Social Commentary in Late 19th Century White Minstrelsy,”
Blacking Up, pp. 160-194.
X Umberto Eco, Narrative Structures in Fleming, from Glenwood Irons, ed.,
Gender, Language and Myth, pp. 157-182.
X Jane Tompkins, “West of Everything,” South Atlantic Quarterly, 86, #3.
Marcus Klein, “The Westerner,: Origins of the Myth,” from Irons, ed., Gender,
Language and Myth, pp. 65-82.
X Bluford Adams, “A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires”: The Barnum
Hippodromes and Circuses” and “Conclusion: “A Transient Disease”; Barnumism at
the World’s Columbian Exposition., pp. 164-192, 193-196.
Jay Mechling, "Newell's Paradox Redux" from Tad Tuleja, ed., Usable Pasts, pp.
140-155. (on Popular Culture and Boy Scouts appropriation of it)
Eric Eliason, "Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical
Expression," Tuleja, ed., Usable Pasts, pp. 175-211.
X James Guimond, "The Signs of Hard Times," (pp. 99-148), from American
Photography and
the American Dream.
X George Lipsitz, “Popular Culture: This Ain’t No Sideshow”, Time Passages, pp.
3-20.
Robert Shulman, "Richard Wright's Native Son and the Political Unconscious," in
The
Power of Political Art, pp. 137-180.
Ibid., The Left Poetry of Langston Hughes, pp. 244-304?
X Ian Gordon, From Caricature to Comic Strips, from Comic Strips and Consumer
Culture, pp. 13-36.
Ibid, Comic Strips, National Culture, and Marketing, pp. 37-58.
Ibid., The Comic Book, pp. 128-157.
X Warren Susman, from Culture and Commitment, 1) James Thurber, The Soap Opera,
pp. 151-169
Rosalind Williams, The Dream World of Mass Consumption in Chandra Mukerji and
Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in
Cultural Studies, pp. 198-235.
Tillie Olsen, "Tell me a Riddle," from Tell Me a Riddle, pp. 93-156.
James T. Farrell, "Studs" in Chicago Stories, pp. 64-70, "All Things are Nothing
to Me" pp. 86-98, "For White Men Only," pp. 99-105.
Herbert Agar, "Culture Versus Colnialism in America, The Southern Review, July
1935, pp. 1-10
X Ronald Berman, Soaps Day and Night, from How Television sees its Audience: A
Look at the Looking Glass.
X Mary Douglas, “Deciphering a Meal,” Daedelus, 101, 1972, 61-81 (pdf ordered)
X Robert C. Toll, On with the Show: The First Century of Show Business in
America:
Plays for the People, pp. 141-170, The Evolution of Musical Comedy, pp. 171-206,
The Vaudeville Show, 265-293.
WebSites:
Subject Guide to Popular Culture Research Tools
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/popcult.htm
Readings in Popular Culture
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-topics/popul.html
Readings in Popular Culture
http://www.ryerson.ca/mgroup/popcult.html
Center for the Study of Popular Culture
http://www.cspc.org/
Popcultures.com
http://www.popcultures.com/
Film Noir and Pop Culture
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/4558/
The Greatest Films
http://www.filmsite.org/
Film Genres: An Introduction
http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html
LOC: Origins of Film Animation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html
LOC Edison Motion Pictures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html
Classic Movie Reviews
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/5555/
20th Century American Bestsellers
http://www.engl.virginia.edu:8000/courses/bestsellers/picked.books.cgi
Sounds of a Century (Commercial site; no downloads)
http://www.soundsofacentury.com/
University of Iowa Cultural Studies Resources
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/culturalStudies.html
Museum of Television and Radio
http://www.mtr.org/
The Virtual Gramaphone
http://www2.nlc-bnc.ca/gramophone/src/home.htm
The Cakewalk
http://www.relocation-to.com/music2.htm
Historic American Sheet Music
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
The Ragtime Ephemeralist
http://www.wwa.com/~weese/cakewalk1.html
Ragtime Database
http://www.trachtman.org/RagtimeDatabase/
Ragtime Midi files
http://www.trachtman.org/ragtime/
Ragtime Press
http://www.rtpress.com/titles.htm
The Lindy Hop
http://www.mcn.org/a/lindyhop/
LOC The 19th Century in Print
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
AdFlip.com Archive of Advertising images
http://www.adflip.com/
Duke University AdAccess Project
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Stereographs:
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/site/exhibitions/stereo/
Edward Muybridge
http://photo.ucr.edu/photographers/muybridge/
Teletype: The Weekly Retro News
http://www.retroactive.com/teletype.html
World’s Columbian Exposition portal
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~shancock/fair/contents.html
Mark Twain on Stage: http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/onstage/onstgehp.html
"How to Tell a Story":
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/onstage/how2tell.html
"The Morals Lecture": http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/onstage/world.html
Jim O'laughlin,
GROW'D AGAIN: ARTICULATION AND THE HISTORY OF TOPSY in UTC
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/index2f.html
Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus
The Religious Movements Page:
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/profiles/listalpha.htm