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Popular Culture
Interviews with scholars of popular culture about their new books.
November 25, 2024
Instrument of War
In his new book, Instrument of War: Music and the Making of the America's Soldiers (University of Chicago Press, 2024), David Suisman shows that the U…
November 25, 2024
From Broadway to the Bronx
From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song (Intellect, 2024) tells the history of New York City in song across a variety of dif…
November 23, 2024
Health Freaks
In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), Dr. Travis A. Weisse tells a…
November 21, 2024
Consider the Turkey
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commerci…
November 21, 2024
Devotional Fanscapes
Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fans…
November 20, 2024
Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games …
November 19, 2024
Brassroots Democracy
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlean…
November 18, 2024
The Image Maker
In The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass Ceiling (2023), Connie DeNave shares her experiences in the public relations world during the Bri…
November 18, 2024
Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison rec…
November 17, 2024
Our Jackie
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is…
November 16, 2024
Changed Men
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual…
November 14, 2024
Life 24x a Second
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Wal…
November 14, 2024
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, …
November 13, 2024
Wisecracks
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversa…
November 12, 2024
The Myth of Harm
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha…
November 12, 2024
Uncomfortable Television
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Y…
November 9, 2024
Routledge Handbook of Esports
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growi…
November 7, 2024
Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histor…
November 6, 2024
The Endless Refrain
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wit…
November 2, 2024
Uncut
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether…