Friday, October 30, 2009

Fall Post 2: October 5, 2009

Sounds of the Modern Nation:  Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
By Alejandro L. Madrid
Review by Russell Cobb, University of Alberta
Listed In: Music and Latin America
Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture
By Baz Dreisinger
Review by Jacke R. Booker, Winston-Salem State University
Listed In: African American, Social Custom
Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840 - 1940.
By John Koegel
Review By Reba Wissner, Brandeis University
Listed In:  Music, Immigrant America
The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa
Edited by Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Reveiw by Roberta Di Carmine, Western Illinois University
Listed In:  Cinema, Africa
Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women's Theater
Edited by Anne Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson, and William A. Wortman.
Review by Megan Burnett, Alice Lloyd College, Kentucky
Listed In: Performing Arts, Native American
Investigation Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier
Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran
Review by Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo
Listed In: Television, Cinema
Gender, Professions and Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiography
By Christine Etherington-Wright
Review by Suanna H. Davis, Lone Star College, Texas
Listed In: Gender, (Auto)Biography
Cold War Confrontations: US Exhibitions and Their Rone in the Cultural Cold War
By Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan.
Review by Antonio Thompson, Austin Peay State University
Listed In: Visual Arts, Material Culture

Monday, October 19, 2009

Fall Post 1: August 30, 2009

Popular Culture Values and the Arts: Essays on Elitism versus Democratization.

Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.
Review by Stephen Gennaro, York University, Toronto
Listed in: Social Custom, Material Culture
 Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound.
By Alan Govenar.
Review by Jonathan Hill, National University of Singapore
Listed In: Music, Souhwest USA
Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective.
By Marguerite H. Rippy.
Review by Chris Pallant, Bangor University, United Kingdom
Listed In: Cinema, Material Culture
Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture.
By Jaap Kooijman.
Review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara
Listed In: Material Culture, Social Custom
A History of the Future

By Donna Goodman
Review by Yves Laberge, Laval University, Quebec
Listed In:  Science, Material Culture
 Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film.
By Christine Sprengler.
Review by Greta Methot, Rhode Island School of Design
Listed In: Cinema, Material Culture
The Medieval Cook.
By Bridget Ann Henisch.
Review by Stephanie Plummer, Bowling Green State University
Listed In: Europe, Material Culture
Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds.
By Jeffrey Richards.
Review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara
Listed In:  Cinema