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Popular Culture: An Introductory Text

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Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and show more confirm our individual senses of identity. show less

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Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 306.40973 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Specific aspects of culture Biography And History North America
LCC: E169.12 .P63 — History of the United States United States General
BISAC: SOC SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture

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Published: 1992
Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 306.40973
LCC: E169.12 .P63

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