Popular Culture

• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by Tom Pendergast; Sara Pendergast

  ISBN: 9781558625297

  Publication Date: 2003-12-01

  Includes more than 2,700 essays covering various aspects of popular culture in the United States including film, music, television, sports, and social life.

• Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture

• Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture by Susan M. Ortmann; Jack R. Fischel (Editor)

  ISBN: 9781282420052

  Publication Date: 2008-01-01

  Chronicles American Jewish popular culture in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology.
• Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture by Jessie Smith (Editor)

  ISBN: 9781282933125

  Publication Date: 2010-01-01

  A four-volume encyclopedia covering many aspects of African American popular culture, including many that are mostly unknown, such as quilting, collectibles, and cartoons.
• St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture by St James Press

  ISBN: 9781410390967

  Publication Date: 2018-03-07

  Discusses hip hop music (rap and DJing), dance (breakdancing), and visual arts (graffiti) that are the artistic expressions of hip hop culture, and feature the people, places, events, and works that started the movement.
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture by Gary W. McDonough

  ISBN: 9780415515023

  Publication Date: 2001
• Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture by Timothy J. Demy An essential new reference work for students and general readers interested in the history, dynamics, and influence of evangelicalism in recent American history, politics, and culture.What makes evangelical or "born-again" Christians different from those who identify themselves more simply as "Christian"? What percentage of Americans believe in the Rapture? How are evangelicalism and Baptism similar? What is the influence of evangelical religions on U.S. politics? Readers of Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture will learn the answers to these questions and many more through this single-volume work's coverage of the many dimensions of and diversity within evangelicalism and through its documentation of the specific contributions evangelicals have made in American society and culture. It also illustrates the Evangelical movement's influence internationally in key issues such as human rights, environmentalism, and gender and sexuality.

  ISBN: 9798216081739

  Publication Date: 2017-09-21

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  Books in the humanities and social sciences, including classics of modern scholarship.

• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• Center for Cultural Studies Research
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music
• International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
• Pulp Studies: Supporting the Academic Study of Pulp Magazines
• Science Fiction Research Association