New Books in Popular Culture
Interviews with Scholars of Popular Culture about their New Books
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- Interview with Scholars of Popular Culture about their New Books
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- 2024-11-23 17:00
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- 2024-11-23 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-23 | In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) Dr. Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collect... |
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| 2024-11-22 | Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japa... |
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| 2024-11-21 | Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fans worship film stars as deities. Focusing on temples dedicated to Bollywood (Hindi cinema) stars and th... |
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| 2024-11-21 | A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about todayâs specially bred, commercially produced birds. In this brief book, bestselling author Peter Singer tells their storyâand, unfort... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024) Cosplay, born from the fusion of âcostumeâ and âplayâ, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games into living embodiments of their cherished characters. Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity (Reaktion,... |
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| 2024-11-19 |
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024) Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople dur... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023) In The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass Ceiling (2023), Connie DeNave shares her experiences in the public relations world during the British Invasion and the beginning of rock-n-roll marketing. Born in Brooklyn, New York, DeNave graduated... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison records and performs under the moniker âMad Squirrelâ and has co-founded two groupsâthe San-Francisco... |
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| 2024-11-17 |
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024) When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-c... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and co... |
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