Popular Culture

Bacon-Smith, Camille. "Batman: The Ethnograph" in Pearson, Roberta E. and William Uricchio, eds., The Many Lives of the Batman (New York: Routledge, 1991.

Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (New York: Harper and Row, 1978).

Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre (New York: Basic Books,1984).

Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983).

Ferris, William. Blues from the Delta (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,1978).

Frith, Simon. Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock'n' Roll (New York: Pantheon, 1981).

Gans, Herbert. Popular Culture and High Culture (New York: BasicBooks, 1974).

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: BasicBooks, 1984).

Geist, Christopher D., and John G. Nachbar. The Popular Culture Reader, 3rd edition (Bowling Green, OH: The Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983).

Gillespie, Angus K. Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989).

Gitlin, Todd. Inside Prime Time (New York: Pantheon, 1983).

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. Carnival in Romans New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1979).

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964).

Motz, Marilyn. True Sisterhood (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1983).

____________ and Pat Browne, eds. Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture 1840-1940 (Bowling Green, OH: The Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988).

Nachbar, John G. Western Films II: An Annotated Critical Bibliography from 1974-1987 (New York: Garland, 1988).

Nye, Russel. The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America (New York: The Dial Press, 1970).

Santino, Jack. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989).

Spencer, Jon M. Songs of Praise and Protest (Fortress Press, 1990).

Titon, Jeff Todd. Early Downhome Blues (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1977).

Vico, Giambattista. The New Science [1725] in Feldman, Burton, and Robert D. Richardson, The Rise of Modern Mythology 1680-1860(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1972).

Ware, Naomi. "Popular Music and African Identity in Freetown, Sierra Leone" in Bruno Nettl, ed., Eight Urban Musical Cultures (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1978, 296-320).

Waterman, Christopher Alan. Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1990).

Williams, Raymond. The Sociology of Culture (New York: SchockenBooks, 1982).