Popular
Culture
Your search for information on Popular Culture can
include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative
Internet resources.
Books
Use the
Library Catalog
to find books on your subject. Suggested subject headings include:
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Popular
culture |
Popular
culture – United States – History—20th century |
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Popular
culture—History—20th century |
Popular
literature |
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Popular
culture—United States |
Popular
music |
Reference Books
that may be useful in your
research:
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American Decades
REF E169.12 .A42
Contemporary
Fashion
REF TT505.A1.C66
2002
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Culture Wars:
Opposing Viewpoints
REF DESK HN59.2
.C85 2003
This Fabulous
Century
REF E161.T55 |
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture
REF E169.12 .E49
2001
Encyclopedia of
Television
REF PN1992.18 E53
2004
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Cold War Culture
REF E169.12 .S39
1997
Greenwood Guide to
American Popular Culture
REF E169.1 .G7555
2002 |
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St. James
Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
REF E169.1 .S764
2000
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War and American
Popular Culture
REF E181 .W26
1999 |
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Bowling, Beatniks,
and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th Century America
REF E169.1 .B7825
2002 |
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Popular Culture:
Opposing Viewpoints
REF DESK HN90.M3
.P66 2005 |
Selected
Circulating Books that may be
useful in your research:
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Poplorica: A
Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that
Shaped Modern America
E169.1 .S63 2004 |
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Harris, Neil
Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and
Cultural Tastes in Modern America
NX180 .S6 H325
1990
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Epstein, Dan.
20th Century Pop
Culture
E169.12 .E65 2001
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Handbook of
American Popular Culture
E169.1 .H2643 |
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Innes, Sherrie A.
Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in
Popular Culture
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Holtzman, Linda
Media Messages:
What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us About Race, Class,
Gender, and Sexual Orientation
P94.5 .M552 U646
2000
Jackle, John A.
Fast Food:
Roadside Restaurants
TX945.J35 1999
Souled American:
How Black Music Transformed White Culture
ML 3479 .P5 2005
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Marshall, P. David
Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture
E169.04 .M366 1997
Cultural Across
Borders: Mexican Immigration &
Popular Culture
E184.M5 C85 1998
A Novel Approach
to Politics: Introducing Political Science Through Media and Popular
Culture
JA66 .V28 2007 |
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Journal and
magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic.
Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine
articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while
not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current
news and some additional facts on your topic.
To find articles
on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These
databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic.
Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and
keywords similar to those you used to locate books.
EBSCOhost
Ethnic News Watch
GaleNet
Gender Watch
NewsBank
Project Muse
Proquest Newspapers
For remote access to the
library databases, see
E-Resource Login &
Searching Options.
For historical
research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find
older articles, generally anything published before 1985.
Internet Sites
The Internet can
be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered
from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the
information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and
useful to your research.
Tarlton Law
Library-Law in Popular
Culture
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/index.html
Popular Culture:
Resources for Critical Analysis
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html
Librarians’ Index to
the Internet
http://www.lii.org
Bad Fads Museum
http://www.badfads.com/home.html
Yahoo.com
http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/cultural_studies/popular_culture/
American Studies @ The
University of Virginia
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/yppop.html
Americana: The
Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/home.htm
Also:
Google Search Engine
www.google.com
Choose "Advanced Search" to limit your search to a
specific domain, date range, language, etc. Read the "Advanced
Search Tips" to focus your search and limit your results list.
Librarians' Internet Index
www.lii.org
"Wesites You Can Trust". Search or use the
Subject Directory to locate websites that have been evaluated by information
professionals.
DM 10/01 ; Rev MO 11/04 ;
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