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  1. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Cultural Correspondence
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 1985
    A critical review of popular culture, born from the collapse of the New Left and hopes for a new beginning of a social movement, intermittently published in Providence from 1975 to 1985.
    A digital archive is available at http://dl.lib.brown.edu/cultural_correspondence/
  3. The Dismal Science
    How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  4. Ann Douglas, Author
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  6. The Failure of Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    The book's premise is that feminism, defined as a form of social activism aimed at improving the lot of women, accomplished a great deal of good, opening up corporate doors, garnering funds for women's college athletics, and so forth until about 1984.
  7. Fetish Fashion, Sex, and Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Dr. Steele traces the historic connections between fashion and fetishism.
  8. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  9. Mass Culture
    The Popular Arts in America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1957
  10. The Origins of Left Culture in the U.S.: 1880-1940
    Issue 6-7 of Cultural Correspondence and Issue #6 of Green Mountain Irregulars

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    A selection of materials from the early years of radical popular culture in the United States, showing how different peoples, over several generations, sought to create out of their own resources a better, more co-operative society.
  11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
    Race and Class

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
  12. People's Aesthetics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
  13. People's Songs
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  14. Rebel Sell
    Why the Culture Can't be Jammed

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
  15. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  16. Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
  17. Serpents in the Garden
    Liaisons with Culture and Sex

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Essays on sex, music, art, architecture and culture from the editors and writers of CounterPunch.
  18. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  19. SIN-A-RAMA
    Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  20. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  21. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  22. Superheroes for the Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Estébanez examines the parallels between pop culture superhero fiction and contemporary politics as writers are inspired to make implicit statements about current ideologies.
  23. Telling Tales
    Storytelling in the family

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A guide to the art of storytelling.
  24. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  25. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization

Experts on Popular Culture in the Sources Directory

  1. Archive of Popular American Music
  2. Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. MoMA Museum of Modern Art


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