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Introduction to the Special Issue on “Religions in African-American Popular Culture”
This Special Issue on “Religions in African-American Popular Culture” puts the concepts of religion and popular culture in dialogue (Cobb 2005; Greeley 1988; Hinds et al [...]
Angela M. Nelson
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Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture: from spectacle to metapicture [PDF]
Purpose – This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways.
Bell, Emma, Sinclair, Amanda
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Making Sense of Leased Popular Literature Collections [PDF]
There is a well-publicized debate in the library field on whether or not it should be an academic library’s responsibility to collect and preserve popular culture materials. Budget constraints, space issues, and the “quality” of these materials, are all
Instituto agrícola Murciano de San Isidro +1 more
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Based on sample evaluation, this article investigates didactic actions and the display of expertise within the field of popular music-related online tutorials distributed on YouTube.
Christofer Jost
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Borges and Popular Culture [PDF]
The ‘greatness’ of Jorge Luis Borges is something of an invention of the 1960s and after, based on the reception, often through translation, of a relatively small body of work from the 1940s (most notably the stories collected in Ficciones and El Aleph [1944 and 1949]).
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From Popular Culture to Popular Custom, and Back Again : A love-lock's tale [PDF]
Walk over a major bridge in a Western city and chances are you will come across at least one or two love-locks. These are padlocks inscribed with names or initials and attached to a public structure, typically by a couple in declaration of romantic ...
Houlbrook, Ceri
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This article analyses the mountain excursions of young people living in Grenoble’s working-class neighborhoods offered by community organizations, such as the Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture.
Léa Sallenave
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Teaching Japanese Popular Culture
Japanese popular culture has arrived on American college campuses as never before. Student interest in Japanese manga (comic books), anime (animated films and television shows), and video games drives much of the enrollment in Japanese courses and ...
Van Symons
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“Mummymania”:mummies,museums and popular culture
This lecture presents the major findings of the first anthropological study of British and American “mummymania”, the public fascination with ancient Egyptian mummies, and its associated myth, the mummy’s curse: a belief that those who interfere with ...
Jasmine Day
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Pop stars and idolatry: an investigation of the worship of popular music icons, and the music and cult of Prince. [PDF]
Prince is an artist who integrates elements from the sacred into his work. He uses popular iconography to present himself as an icon of consumer culture, as a deified ‘rock god’ worshipped by his fans, and as a preacher leading his audience like a ...
Baty S. Paige +23 more
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