De La Salle University - Manila

Pathfinder : American Popular Culture

Definition and Scope Note:

American culture encompasses traditions, ideals, customs, beliefs, values, arts, folklore and innovations developed both domestically and imported via colonization and immigration from the British Isles. [Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_popular_culture]

Use for:

• Culture, Popular
• Mass culture
• Pop culture
• Popular arts

Broader terms:

• Communication
• Intellectual life
• Mass Society
• Recreation

Narrower terms:

• African American men in popular culture
• African Americans in popular culture
• Cultural policy
• Fads
• Future in popular culture
• Gypsies in popular culture
• Popular literature

BOOKS

Reference sources located at the Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor:

• The last dinosaur book : the life and times of a cultural icon . W.J.T. Mitchell.  E 169.04 M58 1998  
• America on display. Joyce Jurnovoy and David Jenness.  AM 11 .J87 1987  
• This fabulous century. Time-Life Books   E 161 T55 1969 v.3

Texts located at the American Studies Resource Center, Ground floor:

• Against academia : the history of the Popular Culture Association. American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement, 1967-1988.  Ray B. Browne. E169.12 .B78 1989
• Against the American grain. Dwight Macdonald. E 169.1 M3 1962.  
• Ain't we got fun? : Essays, lyrics, and stories of the twenties. Barbara H. Solomon.  PS 536 A35 1980
• All consuming images : the politics of style in contemporary culture. Stuart Ewen. E169.12 .E94 1988
• The American monomyth. Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. E 169.12 J48 1977 
• American panorama. Paul Sann. E 169.12 S26 1980. 
• American history, American television : interpreting the video past. John E. O'Connor. PN 1992.3 U5 A45 1983 
• American tough : the tough-guy tradition and American character. Rupert Wilkinson. E 169.1 W454 1984
• Black noise : rap music and black culture in contemporary America. Tricia Rose. ML 3531 R67 1994  
• A cinema without walls : movies and culture after Vietnam. Timothy Corrigan. PN 1993.5 U6 C67 1991
• The colossus of roads : myth and symbol along the American highway. Karal Ann Marling. NK 805 M37 1984  
• Conspiracy culture : from the Kennedy assasination to The X-files. Peter Knight.Conspiracy culture :  from the Kennedy assasination to The X-files. Peter Knight.  E 169.12 K54 2000 
• The cowboy hero : his image in American history & culture. William W. Savage, Jr.  F 596 S28 1979 
• Culture of complaint : the fraying of America. Robert Hughes. NX 180 S6 H85 1993  
• Don't touch that dial! : radio programming in American life, 1920-1960. J. Fred MacDonald. PN 1991.3 U5 M3 1979. 
• Democracy and the novel : popular resistance to classic American writers. Henry Nash Smith. PS 377 S6 1978   
• Dream time : chapters from the sixties. Geoffrey O'Brien.  E169.12 O26 2002
• The fifties. David Halberstam.  E169.02 H34 1993
• G-men, Hoover's F.B.I. in American popular culture. Richard Gid Powers. HV 8138 P68 1983
• God's country : America in the fifties. J. Ronald Oakley. E 169.12 O25 1986
• Hopes and ashes : the birth of modern times, 1929-1939. Alice G. Marquis. E 169.1 M365 1986
• In the driver's seat : the automobile in American literature and popular culture. Cynthia Golomb Dettelbach. PS 228 A95 D47 1976  
• The land before her : fantasy and experience of the American frontiers, 1630-1860. Annette Kolodny.  E 179.5 K64 1984
• Made in U.S.A. : an Americanization in modern art, the '50s & '60s.  Sidra Stich. N 6512 S75 1987
• Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music. Greil Marcus. ML 3561 R62 M37 1975.   
• The performing self : compositions and decompositions in the languages of contemporary life. Richard Poirier.  PS 221 P64 1971  
• Popular culture and American life : selected topics in the study of American popular culture. Martin W. Laforse and James A. Drake.  E 169.1 L34 1981
• Popular culture : mirror of American life. David Manning White and John Pendleton.  E 169.02 P66 1977   
• Populuxe. Thomas Hine. NK 1404 H56 1986 
• The Reagan range : the nostalgic myth in American politics. James Combs. E 877.2 C65 1993  
• Remaking America : public memory, commemoration, and patriotism in the twentieth century. John Bodnar.E 741 B6 1991 
• Roadside Americana : landmark tourist attractions. Eric Peterson. E169.Z83 P47 2004
• The romance of commerce and culture : capitalism, modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen crusade for cultural reform. James Sloan Allen. NX 504 A44 1983  
• The shape of culture : a study of contemporary cultural patterns in the United States. Judith R. Blau. NX 180 S6 B5 1989
• The strip : an American place. Richard P. Horwitz.  HF 5429.3 H67 1985  
• Symbolizing America. Herve Varenne.  E 169.02 S95 1986     
• The unpredictable past : explorations in American cultural history. Lawrence W. Levine.  E 169.1 L48 1993   
• Time passages : collective memory and American popular culture. George Lipsitz.  E 169.12 L56 1990 
• Within the context of no context. George W.S. Trow. E 169.12 T76 1981.

Text located at Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall Library, 2nd floor:

• Teenage : the creation of youth culture. Jon Savage. HQ796 .S28 2007  

Texts located at Br. Benedict LRC, 18th floor, Br. Andrew Hall:

• Between the sheets, in the streets : queer, lesbian, gay documentary. Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs, editors. P 96 D622 U634 1997 
• The confetti generation : how the new communications technology is fragmenting America. William J. Donnelly.  P 96 T42 D66 1986  
• Exploring media culture : a guide. Michael R. Real.P 94.65 U6 R4 1996 
• Mass media and mass man. Allan Casty. P 92 U5 C3 1973   
• Media culture : cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the postmodern. Douglas Kellner. P92.U5 K44 1995   -  
• Media & culture : an introduction to mass communication. Richard Campbell, Christopher R. Martin, Bettina Fabos.  P94.65 .U6 C35 2004  
• Media spectacle. Douglas Kellner.  P94.65.U6 K45 2003
• Simulacrum America : the USA and the popular media. Elisabeth Kraus and Carolin Auer.  P 92 U5 S55 2000   

Texts located at the Circulation Section, 3rd floor:

• The adoring audience : fan culture and popular media.  Lisa A. Lewis.HM 291 A335 1992 
• The age of missing information. Bill McKibben. PN 1992.6 M34 1993  
• America through the looking glass : a historical reader in popular culture. David Burner, Robert D. Marcus, Jorj Tilson. E 169.1 A37. 
• Andy Warhol, poetry, and gossip in the 1960s .  Reva Wolf. NX 512 W37 W64 1997  
• The art of democracy : a concise history of popular culture in the United States. Jim Cullen. E 161 C84 1996 
• Atomic culture : how we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Scott C. Zeman and Michael A. Amundson.  E169.12 A86 2004
• Comics as culture. M. Thomas Inge. PN 6725 I55 1990
• The cowboy hero : his image in American history & culture. William W. Savage, Jr.F 596 S28 1979  
• Critical thinking and popular culture : reading and writing the American experience. Peter Elias Sotiriou. PE 1127 P6 S67 1998
• The culture vultures : or, whatever became of the emperor's new clothes?.  Alan Levy. NX 503 L49 1968  
• Demographic vistas : television in American culture. David Marc. PN 1992.3 U5 M37 1984
• Eyes wide open : looking for God in popular culture. William D. Romanowski. BR526 .R65 2004
• Heroes of popular culture. eRay B. Browne, Marshall Fishwick, Michael T. Marsden  E169.1 .H47 1972
• Hip : the history. John Leland.  E169.1 .L36 2004
• The Kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby. Wolfe, Tom. E 169.1 W66 1977. 
• Latino/a popular culture.   Michelle Habell-Pallan and Mary Romero. E184.S75 L37 2002
• Mass culture and everyday life.   Peter Gibian. E 169.04 M37 1997
• Mass culture : the popular arts in America. Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White  E 169.1 R6 1964
• Movies and mass culture. John Belton. PN 1995.9 S6 M68 1996. 
• New dimensions in popular culture. Russel B. Nye. PS 121 N48 1972  
• Pop dreams : music, movies, and the media in the 1960s. Archie K. Loss.  E 169.12 L67 1999
• Poplore : folk and pop in American culture. Gene Bluestein. GR 105 B58 1994
• The popular arts in America : a reader.  William M. Hammel. NX 504 P6 1977
• The popular culture reader. Jack Nachbar, Deborah Weiser, John L. Wright. E 169.1 P58 1978
• Projections : brief readings on American culture. J. Sterling Warner, Bill Swanson.  PE1127.H5 P76 2000
• Republic of signs : liberal theory and American popular culture. Anne Norton. JA 84 U5 N67 1993 
• Signs of life in the U.S.A. : readings on popular culture for writers. Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon. PE1127.P6 S54 2000
• Superculture : American popular culture and Europe. C. W. E. Bigsby. D1065.U5 S96 1975
• A taste for pop : pop art, gender, and consumer culture. Cecile Whiting.NX 180 S6 W45 1997
• Things in the driver's seat : readings in popular culture. Harry Russell E 169.12 T49  
• Totally awesome 80s. Matthew Rettenmund. PN1993.5.U6 R46 1996
• Warrior dreams : paramilitary culture in post-Vietnam America. James William Gibson. E 169.04 G5 1994 
• What the dog saw and other adventures. Malcolm Gladwell.  PN4874.G398 .A25 2009 

Text located at the Filipiniana Section, 4th floor:

• American tropics : articulating Filipino America. Allan Punzalan Isaac. E184.F4 I8 2006

Texts located at the Special Collection, Archives Section, 4th floor:  

• Abueg Collection

• Mass media : the invisible environment revisited. Robert J. Glessing, William P. White.  P 92 U5 M39 1976  

• Bautista Collection

• Side-saddle on the golden calf : social structure and popular culture in America. George H. Lewis. HN59 .S48 1972   

• Bitanga Valeros

• Where have you gone, Michelangelo? : the loss of soul in Catholic culture. Thomas Day. BX1406.2 .D38 1993  

• Calderon Collection

• Against the American grain : [essays on the effects of mass culture. Dwight Macdonald. E 169.1 M3 1965  
• Mass media and mass man. Alan Casty.  P 92 U5 C3 1968 

• Del Mundo Collection

• Demographic vistas : television in American culture. David Marc .  PN 1992.3 U5 M37 1984  

• Foronda Collection

• Mass culture : the popular arts in America. Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White .E 169.1 R6 1957     

• Isagani Cruz Collection

• The half-world of American culture : a miscellany. Carl Bode.  PS 121 B64 1965  
• Sex, art, and American culture : essays. Camille Paglia. E 169.12 P34 1992  
• Vamps & tramps : new essays. Camille Paglia. E169.12 P35 1994   

• Sotto Collection

• American tough : the tough-guy tradition and American character. Rupert Wilkinson. E169.1.W454 1986   
• Documentary expression and thirties America. William Stott. P96.D622 U67 1976
• Generation of swine : tales of shame and degradation in the '80s. Hunter S. Thompson. E876 .T48 1989 
• Intimate strangers : the culture of celebrity. Richard Schickel E169.12 .S34 1986  
• Popcorn Venus : [women, movies, & the American dream]. Marjorie Rosen. PN1998.A2 R67 1974
• The tastemakers : the shaping of American popular taste. Russell Lynes. N6505.L96 1980   
• Vulgar modernism : writing on movies and other media. J. Hoberman. PN 1994 H59 1991   

Text located at the Special Collection, Filipiniana Section, 4th floor:

• Doreen Fernandez Collection

• Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture. Ray B. Browne.  E169.12 .R58 1980   

PERIODICALS

PRINT
(Periodicals Section, 2nd floor)

• American History
• Americana
• Entertainment Weekly
• Journal of Popular Culture
• Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea

ELECTRONIC

PROQUEST ONLINE
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

• The Journal of American Culture

• The county fair as celebration and cultural text. Michael T. Marsden. The Journal of American Culture. Malden: March 2010. Vol. 33, Iss. 1; p. 24
• Divas on screen: black women in American film. Zachary Ingle. The Journal of American Culture. Malden: September 2010. Vol. 33, Iss. 3; p. 252
• Lesbian television personalities - a queer new subject. Jennifer Reed. The Journal of American Culture. Malden: December 2009. Vol. 32, Iss. 4; p. 307
• You've come a long way, baby: women, politics, and popular culture. Linda S Coleman. The Journal of American Culture. Malden: December 2009. Vol. 32, Iss. 4; p. 364
• When broadway was the runway: theater, fashion, and American culture. Jack Estes. The Journal of American Culture. Malden: December 2009. Vol. 32, Iss. 4; p. 363

• Journal of Popular Culture

• American humor: a study of the national character. Sean Zwagerman. Journal of Popular Culture. Bowling Green: February 2005. Vol. 38, Iss. 3; p. 600
• Everything but the burden: what white people are taking from black culture. Marcia Alesan Dawkins. Journal of Popular Culture. Bowling Green: February 2005. Vol. 38, Iss. 3; p. 577
• Memory and popular film. Dava L Simpson. Journal of Popular Culture. Bowling Green: May 2005. Vol. 38, Iss. 4; p. 788
• Rapture culture: left behind in evangelical America. Marshall W Fishwick. Journal of Popular Culture. Bowling Green: August 2005. Vol. 38, Iss. 5; p. 967
• Visions of America: Johnson Brothers Pottery in the US market, 1872-2002. Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi. Journal of Popular Culture. Bowling Green: August 2004. Vol. 38, Iss. 1; p. 186

• Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

• Apocalyptic dread: American film at the turn of the century Kate S Kelley. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Spring 2010. Vol. 22, Iss. 1; p. 1
• From hippies to Jesus freaks: Christian radicalism in Chicago's inner-city  Shawn David Young. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.  Summer 2010. Vol. 22, Iss. 2; p. 1
• Jazz religion, the second line, and black New Orleans. Andrew Smith. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.  Spring 2010. Vol. 22, Iss. 1; p. 1
• Jesus Christ and Billy the Kid as archetypes of the self in American cinema. Michelangelo Paganopoulos. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.  Spring 2010. Vol. 22, Iss. 1; p. 1
• Muslim marriage goes online: the use of internet matchmaking by American muslims. Mbaye Lo, Taimoor Aziz. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.  Fall 2009. Vol. 21, Iss. 3; p. 1
• The word and its witness: the spiritualization of American realism. Kenneth Paradis. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Spring 2010. Vol. 22, Iss. 1; p. 1

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org

• Journal of American History

• Culture. Akira Iriye. The Journal of American History, Vol. 77, No. 1 June 1990, p. 99-107
• Culture and the state in America Michael Kammen. The Journal of American History, Vol. 83, No. 3 December 1996, p. 791-814
• Jews and American popular psychology: reconsidering the protestant paradigm of popular thought.Andrew R. Heinze. The Journal of American History, Vol. 88, No. 3 December 2001, p. 950-978
• Leonard Covello, the Covello papers, and the history of eating habits among Italian immigrants in New York. Simone Cinotto. The Journal of American History, Vol. 91, No. 2 September 2004, p. 497-521
• Politics, paradigms, and public culture. Jean Harvey Baker. The Journal of American History, Vol. 84, No. 3 December 1997, p. 894-899

EBSCO
http://search.ebscohost.com

• Journal of Social History

• Mexican American mojo: popular music, dance, and urban culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968. Journal of Social History, Summer 2010, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p1076-1079.

• Studies in Latin American Popular Culture

• Embracing hip hop as their own: hip hop and black racial identity in Brazil.Reiter, Bernd; Mitchell, Gladys L. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 2008, Vol. 27, p151-165.
• Guerrilla warplay: the infantilization of war in Latin American popular culture. Albarrán, Elena Jackson. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 2005, Vol. 24, p69-81.
• Has Latin American popular culture disappeared? some theoretical reflections. Aman, Kenneth. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 1996, Vol. 15, p73.

ARTICLES

American Studies Resource Center, Ground floor:

• American culture goes global, or does it. Pells, Richard. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
• Cultural diplomacy and the United States government : a survey. VF 023J
• The Fifty biggest changes in the last fifty years : Popular culture. American Heritage 55(2) : April/May 2002
• Urban culture : the American city. USIA 026 1986.  

Periodicals Section, 2nd floor:

• All-American pop images and values in Japanese anime for Philippine TV : "Slam Dunk" as postcolonial Japanese-Filipino-American popular
  culture form/text. Unitas 78(4) : December 2005. p. 513-531.
• The impact of United States colonization on the Rizalian tradition in cinema and literature : a view of the popular arts as postcolonial historiography.
  Plaridel 3(2) : August 2006. p. 49-74.
• Not only in the Philippines : the oddities of US-Philippines political cultures and rituals.
• Social and political change at the turn of the century : retracing the American culture of teaching in the Philippines. Education Quarterly 64: March 2006. p. 126-147.

VERTICAL FILES
(Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor)

• Conservative critiques of African-American culture : anthropological and philosophical perspectives on the claim of false conciousness. VVF0001140
• Public culture and national integration in multi-cultural states : comparative observations from the United States and Nigeria. VVF0001306
• The vision of Christian unity : some aspects of faith and order in the context of United States culture.The vision of Christian unity : some aspects
  of faith and order in the context of United States culture. Ecumenical Journal 30 : 1 July 1991 VF 00653

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

LOCAL
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• American exceptionalism in revenge of the Sith. Lim, Lance Gervin Chua. CDTU014111
• An analysis of the cultural and political image of the United States through American films. Caranto, Jessica Nicole. CDTU014109
• The legacy of thatcherism & new labour immigration policy. Alcain, Milagros. CDTU013865

FOREIGN

Proquest Digital Dissertations
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

• After: U.S. literary culture, 1989--present. Muth, Katie Ruth, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2010, AAT 3422092
• Competition dance: Redefining dance in the United States. Weisbrod, Alexis Arnow, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2010,  AAT 3412813
• Complex harmonies: United States radio culture, modern literature, and national identity, 1919--1945. Crum, Jason R., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2009,   AAT 3371332
• Crossover and spectacle in American operetta and the megamusical. Replogle, Holley Dawn, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009, AAT 3384065
• Depression beliefs in northern India and the United States: A cross-cultural study. Nieuwsma, Jason A., Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 2009, AAT 3404787
• Fairness in American politics and culture. Herbel, Jerry Edward, Jr., Ph.D., The University of Oklahoma, 2001, AAT 3013150
• The folk music revival then and now: Politics, commercialism, and authenticity in folk music communities in the U.S. and Japan. Tachi, Mikiko, Ph.D., Brown University, 2009, AAT 3377210
• Hunting the guru: Lineage, culture and conflict in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in America. Chandler, Jeannine M., Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 2009, AAT 3367332
• Implications of national culture on knowledge management: A cross-cultural analysis of Italian and American perceptions. de Leo, Francesco, Ph.D., The George Washington University, 2009, AAT 3386951
• Marketing America: Public culture and public diplomacy in the Marshall Plan era, 1947--1954. Garrett, Amy C., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2004, AAT 3125824
• Medicine path spiritualist and New Age representations of Native Americans. Khadem, Shelley Johnson, Ph.D., New School University, 2009, AAT 3388838
• Particular universality: Science, culture, and nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915--1960. Ferney, Christian Paul, Ph.D., Duke University, 2009, AAT 3350478
• Performativity and performance: Representing the tattooed body. Fenske, Mindy Elaine, Ph.D., Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2001, AAT 3042618
• Religion and memory in American public culture, 1890--1920. Nytroe, Sarah K., Ph.D., Boston College, 2009, AAT 3351239
• Science and management: Popular knowledge, work, and authority in the twentieth-century United States. Lindstrom, Richard Swen, Ph.D., Purdue University, 2000, AAT 3020246
• The selling sound: Country music, commercialism, and the politics of popular culture,1920--1974. Pecknold, Diane Elisabeth, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2002, AAT 3038615
• Underdogs: A cultural history of the United States Marine Corps,1941-1965. O'Connell, Aaron B., Ph.D., Yale University, 2009, AAT 3395878

INTERNET WEBSITES
(Computer Workstations, Ground floor, 2nd and 3rd floor)

The Authentic History Center
http://www.authentichistory.com/
[Retrieved January 20, 2011]
Features "artifacts and sounds from American popular culture".

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/emerging.htm
[Retrieved January 20, 2011]
Contains articles "discussing various aspects of pop culture, such as film, television, sports, and politics".

Books for American Popular Culture
http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=aqmerican+popular+culture
[Retrieved January 20, 2011]
A a service from Google which allows user to search and view full text pages of books that Google has scanned.

U.S. Popular Culture Web Links
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/REF/pclinks.html
[Retrieved January 20, 2011]
"A collection of weblinks about American popular culture."

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Compiled by : Ms. Yolanda F. Odsinada

Date: January 2011