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Popular Culture: American Popular Culture
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This guide was created by Professor T. V. Reed as part of the course American Popular Culture taught at Washington State University. It is ... one of the “Web projects” of the American Studies program at WSU.
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Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions while examining world-changing social movements. The author explores the cultures of the world, venturing from cavespace to tomb space, to temple space, then medieval space, to modern space and post-modern epochs, and finally to cyberspace.
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* Respondents identify (1) technology/gadgetry, (2) anime/manga, and (3) video-gaming as the top three primary areas of popular culture where they are driving overall trends in the U.S. marketplace. Close to 80 percent of respondents identify "technology/gadgets" and "anime/manga" as the top two areas where Asian Americans are influencing trends, while 72 of respondents cite "video gaming" as the third major area. Other areas Asian American youth cite a high degree of influence is in "food and culinary arts" and the visual arts. * Hip Hop and Alternative music are the dominant musical genres favored among U.S.-born Asian American youth. A diverse array of musical genres forms the listening habits of Asian youth -- but with distinct differences according to their acculturation levels and generation. While first-generation (born outside the U.S.) respondents preferred "Pop/Top 40" music, second-generation Asian Americans (U.S.
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Popular culture is a world in which everything is for sale one way or another—a world of commercialism. The environment is often thought of as a product to be consumed, and, as a result, pollution becomes one facet of an ever-growing concern of the American popular culture. Companies involved in the capitalization and industrialization of the United States increasingly promote their products, and themselves, as being in tune with nature.
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The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature in American popular culture and bring the transformative power of literature into the lives of its citizens. This program will engage libraries and other community and school partners across the country to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. Organizations participating in The Big Read will be required to produce a community-wide read of a selected book, including innovative programming. Events should promote active participation, involve the local library where there is one, and occur in a variety of locations. Approximately 50 organizations will be selected for programming occurring between January 2007 and June 2007. The deadline for these applications is September 12, 2006
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[One] collection with material on American popular culture during the 1940s is the Vickie L. Riggan collection. Riggan is a researcher and collector of images of World War II women in uniform from popular magazines. Four series in the collection relate to the popular culture topic. The "Magazine Covers and Product Ads" include many periodical covers, such as Collier's, Life, Ladies Home Journal, Time, and Yank Magazine, that depict American women soldiers in uniform. The series ... has product advertisements from the 1940s, such as Coca-Cola, Milky Way, Camels Cigarettes, and Western Electric, that show the war propaganda and the various branches of the military that women served.
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