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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and...
The Warrior Image
Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Exploring representations of servicemen in the popular press, government propaganda, museum exhibits, literature, film, and television,...
by Victoria Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Rock Climbing: The Ultimate Guide covers the history of rock climbing in the United States from its origins to the present day, documenting the importance and vitality of the popular sport. The chapters address topics such as the technicalities of the equipment and clothing, training methods, key...
Global Pop
World Music, World Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular, cyber, interviews, and the music...
Smash Hits: The 100 Songs That Defined America
The 100 Songs That Defined America
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
We are what we listen to. That's the premise of this study of 100 songs that have shaped and defined the American experience, from the Colonial period to the present.
• Takes an entertaining approach to understanding the cultural tides in American history
• Covers a wide range of...
by Barry Miles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
With the resurgence of vinyl going from strength to strength, album cover art is as important as it's ever been. This sumptuous book brings together 250 of the greatest album covers of all time and is arranged chronologically, beginning in 1956. Our judging panel, drawn from the great and the good...
by Susan Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
They are comedy legends: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, and Joan Rivers! Cinderella had a glass slipper, but comics have clown shoes that leave footprints on our fannies and handprints on our hearts. Queens of Comedy includes Dr. Sue’s personal interviews with great stars, show business...
Punk Rock: So What?
The Cultural Legacy of Punk
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. *Punk Rock So What?*brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music history, culture and myth. The contributors,...
Freaks Talk Back
Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions...
Arkansas/Arkansaw
How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For...
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by Jan Harold Brunvand
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded...
A Great Idea at the Time
The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago,...
Groove Tube
Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such...
Cultural Genocide and the Italian-American Legacy
A Culture Hijacked by Popular Myth and Media Misrepresentation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Do you know the name of the Italian-American that the U.S. government now recognizes as the true inventor of the telephone? Do you know the name of the Tuscan colonist who Thomas Jefferson paraphrased in his famous all men are created equal clause in the Declaration of Independence? Did you know that...