Reading List
The following reading list is meant as a supplement to the bibliographies that accompany the subject specific essays in this collection. We have selected two types of works for this list: those works that explain the long-term, historical development of popular culture in the United States; and those works that discuss the academic study of popular culture. Among the latter are both theoretical explications and reference works. This reading list is not intended to be exhaustive.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Translated by Annette Lavers. 1957.Reprint, New York, The Noonday Press, 1972.
Bigsby, C. W. E., editor. Approaches to Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1976.
Bluestein, Gene. Poplore: Folk and Pop in American Culture. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
Bode, Carl. The Anatomy of American Popular Culture, 1840-1861. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1960.
Browne, Ray B. Popular Culture and the Expanding Consciousness. New York, Wiley, 1973.
Browne, Ray B., and David Madden. The Popular Culture Explosion. Dubuque, Iowa, W. C. Brown Co., 1972.
Browne, Ray B., and Marshall W. Fishwick, editors. Preview 2001+: Popular Culture Studies in the Future. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1995.
———, editors. Symbiosis: Popular Culture and Other Fields. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.
Browne, Ray B., and Michael T. Marsden, editors. Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999.
Browne, Ray B., and Ronald J. Ambrosetti, editors. Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past and the Past in the Present and Future. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993.
Browne, Ray B., Marshall W. Fishwick, and Kevin O. Browne, editors. Dominant Symbols in Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.
Buhle, Paul, editor. Popular Culture in America. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
Cantor, Norman F., and Michael S. Werthman, editors. The History of Popular Culture. Volume 1: To 1815, Volume 2: Since 1815. New York, Macmillan, 1968.
Carter, Steven. Leopards in the Temple: Studies in American Popular Culture. San Francisco, International Scholars Publications, 1997.
Cullen, Jim. The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1996.
Denney, Reuel. The Astonished Muse. 1957. Reprint, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974.
Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York, Verso, 1998.
Fishwick, Marshall W. Common Culture and the Great Tradition: The Case for Renewal. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1982.
——. Parameters of Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1974.
Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston, Unwin/Hyman, 1989.
Flaherty, David H., and Frank E. Manning, editors. The Beaver Bites Back?: American Popular Culture in Canada. Montreal and Buffalo, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
Gans, Herbert J. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. New York, Basic Books, 1974.
Geist, Christopher D., and Jack Nachbar, editors. The Popular Culture Reader. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983.
Geist, Christopher D., Ray B. Browne, Michael T. Marsden, and Carole Palmer, editors. The Directory of Popular Culture Collections. Phoenix, Arizona, Oryx Press, 1989.
Gibian, Peter, editor. Mass Culture and Everyday Life. New York, Routledge, 1997.
Giroux, Henry A. Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture. New York, Routledge, 1994.
Gordon, Mark, and Jack Nachbar, compilers and editors. Currents of Warm Life: Popular Culture in American Higher Education. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980.
Hall, Stuart, and Paddy Whannel. The Popular Arts. New York, Pantheon, 1965.
Hoffmann, Frank W. American Popular Culture: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Englewood, Colorado, Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
Inge, M. Thomas, editor. Concise Histories of American Popular Culture. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1982.
——, editor. Handbook of American Popular Culture. 2nd edition.Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1989.
——, editor. Handbook of American Popular Literature. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1988.
Laforse, Martin W., and James A. Drake. Popular Culture and American Life: Selected Topics in the Study of American Popular Culture. Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1981.
Landrum, Larry N. American Popular Culture: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, Gale Research, 1982.
Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1988.
——. The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History. Boston, Beacon Press, 1996.
——. The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Lowenthal, Leo. Literature, Popular Culture, and Society. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1961.
Lynes, Russell. The Tastemakers. New York, Harper, 1954.
MacDonald, Dwight. Against the American Grain. New York, Random House, 1962.
Maltby, Richard, editor. The Passing Parade: A History of Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Motz, Marilyn F., et al. Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994.
Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson, editors. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991.
Nachbar, Jack, and Kevin Lause, editors. Popular Culture: An Introductory Text. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992.
Norton, Anne. Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Nye, Russel B. The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America. New York, Dial Press, 1970.
——, editor. New Dimensions in Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1972.
Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Root, Robert L. The Rhetorics of Popular Culture: Advertising, Advocacy, and Entertainment. Westport, Connecticut, Green-wood Press, 1987.
Ross, Andrew. No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture. New York, Routledge, 1989.
Schroeder, Fred E. H., editor. Twentieth-Century Popular Culture in Museums and Libraries. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
Seldes, Gilbert. The Seven Lively Arts. New York and London, Harper and Brothers, 1924.
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. 1950. Reprint, New York, Vintage, 1957.
Stanton, Frank Nicholas. Mass Media and Mass Culture. New York, Columbia Broadcasting System, 1962.
Storey, John. An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Susman, Warren. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York, Pantheon, 1984.
Toll, Robert C. The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century. New York, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Ulanov, Barry. The Two Worlds of American Art: The Private and the Popular. New York, Macmillan, 1965.
Warshow, Robert. The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1964.
Wertheim, Arthur Frank, editor. American Popular Culture: A Historical Bibliography. Santa Barbara, California, ABC-Clio Information Services, 1984.
White, David Manning, and John Pendleton, editors. Popular Culture: Mirror of American Life. Del Mar, California, Publisher's Inc., 1977.
Whiting, Cecile. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Williams, Martin T. Hidden in Plain Sight: An Examination of the American Arts. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1780-1950. London, Chatto and Windus, 1960.
Wilmeth, Don B. American and English Popular Entertainment: A Guide to InformationSources. Detroit, Gale Research, 1980.
