Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture

For Review

Alidou, Ousseina D. Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Applbaum, Kalman. The Marketing Era: From Professional Practice to Global Provisioning. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.

Beckingham, Carolyn. Is Fashion a Woman's Right? Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005.

Beiner, Guy. Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Brewer, Mary F. Staging Whiteness. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Browne, Ray B. Profiles of Popular Culture: A Reader. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Brummett, Barry. Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004.

Carr, Diane, David Buckingham, Andrew Burn and Gareth Schott. Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006.

Collins, Patricia Hill. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.

Cragin, Thomas. Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830-1900. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006.

Danser, Simon. The Myths of Reality. Alternative Albion, 2005.

Davidson, Peter. The Idea of North. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2005.

Dawson, Melanie. Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2005.

De Jong, Ferdinand. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Indiana University Press, 2007.

De Martino, Ernesto. Dorothy Louis Zinn, trans. The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism. London: Free Association Books, 2005.

Dickstein, Morris. A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World. Princeton University Press, 2005.

Edmonson, Laura. Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Feil, Ken. Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Feldman, Heidi Carolyn. Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific. Weslayan University Press, 2006.

Finnegan, Ruth. The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town. Weslayan University Press, 2007.

Gade, Rune and Anne Jerslev, eds. Performative Realism. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005.

Goldstein, Diane E. Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004.

Green, Garth L. and Philip W. Scher, eds. Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Hale, Thomas A. Griots and Griottes. Indiana University Press, 1998.

Haring, Lee. Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Harrison, Les. The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman. The University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Hayward, Phillip. Bounty Chords: music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands. John Libbey, 2006.

Hassim, Shireen. Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Hickman, Richard. Why We Make Art and Why it is Taught. Intellect, 2005.

Holton, Kimberly DaCosta. Performing Folklore: Ranchos Folclóricos from Lisbon to Newark. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Ivie, Robert L. Democracy and America’s War on Terror. University of Alabama Press, 2005.

Johnston, Patricia, ed. Seeing High & Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2006.

Karp, Ivan, Corinne A Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto with Gustavo Butinix, Barabra Kirschenblatt-Gimblett and Ciaraj Rassool, eds. Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. Duke University Press, 2006.

Kucich, John. Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class. Princetone University Press, 2007.

Marchetti, Gina. From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.

McAllister, Ken S. Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004.

McCarthy, William Bernard. Cinderella in America: a Book of Folk and Fairy Tales. University Press of Misssissippi, 2007.

McCracken, Grant. Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Miller, Laura. Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics. University of California Press, 2006.

Milner, Murray Jr. Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.

Morris, Meaghan, Sui Leung and Stephen Chan Ching-Ku, eds. Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.

Odum, Howard W. Wings on my Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Ostherr, Kirsten. Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.

Paxson, Margaret. Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press, 2005.

Pratten, David. The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Robinson, Lillian S. Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.

Sahadeo, Jeff and Russell Zanca, eds. Everyday Life in Central Asia Past and Present. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Secomb, Linnell. Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Siikala, Anna-Leena and Jukka Siikala. Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2005.

Spence, Louise. Watching Daytime Soap Operas: The Power of Pleasure. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Stam, Robert and Ella Shohat. Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism. Routledge, 2007.

Stewart, Jaqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005.

Tang, Patricia. Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal. Temple University Press, 2007.

Yashinsky, Dan. Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century. University Press of Mississippi, 2004.