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Cover -- Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: American Popular Culture-There Will Be Blood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction: Recovering American Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film -- Ritualism -- Minimalism -- Ironism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture -- The Strange Career of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Eroticization of Interracial Violence -- Reconceptualizing the Violence of Slavery in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Conclusion: Representing the Violence of Slavery in the "Post-Racial" Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America -- Violence in Antebellum America -- Simply Murder: Unfathomable Killing and the Civil War -- Psychophysical Coping with a Bloody Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945-Present -- Early Postwar, 1945-1948 -- Cold War, 1948-1962 -- The Vietnam War Era, 1962-1978 -- Post Vietnam, 1978-2001 -- Post-9/11 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement -- American Dreams -- American Nightmares -- A Change Is Gonna Come -- Marching Forward: Fifty Years Later -- Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence -- Domestic Violence -- Rape -- Sexual Harassment -- Hate Crimes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"Designed as an introductory text, this book details several aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries"--Provided by publisher

Queer culture isn't a small, isolated subset of society, nor is it a new movement. The acknowledged father of bodybuilding, Eugen Sandow, was gay and lived in the late 1800s. Burlesque troupes in the early 1900s often featured female impersonators performing risquŽ dancesÑunbeknownst to their audiences. And the debate over gay marriage actually originated in the 1950s

A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce—have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture

"This book offers a complete overview of the contributions of U.S. Latinos to American popular culture and examines the emergence of the U.S. Latino identity"--

Abstract
The four books reviewed here deal with the role that jazz has played in the origins and evolution of American popular culture and society more generally. The common subtext is that jazz initiated a veritable cultural revolution, providing America with its first true musical art form, as well as igniting the slow process towards the acceptance of African Americans as artists and cultural innovators, becoming the musical voice of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The starting point of this revolution is the 1920s, appropriately named the Jazz Age, when it dawned on the young people of the era, who had embraced jazz as their own, that it was possible for all Americans to live and interact with each other on an equal footing, no matter their race, gender, or background. Jazz was rejected at first by the mainstream, denounced as disruptive of American values; but it eventually spread throughout the nation's urban centers, providing the impetus for the emergence of a new and powerful form of culture, open to one and all—a culture that has shaped America ever since. As the books under review emphasize, albeit from different perspectives, a once condemned music ironically came forth to form the aesthetic backbone of American musical art. Moreover, there would be no distinctive American popular culture without jazz—both a musical and a social movement that continues to exert its influence to this day in America and, indeed, the world. This article is divided into six sections: 1. Introduction; 2. The Jazz Age; 3. Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement; 4. The Words of the Artists; 5. The Current State; 6. Conclusion.

"Now in a fully updated edition, this concise book explores the ways American movies, TV, music, fast food, sports, gaming, and fashion influence globalization. Projecting the future impact of popular culture, both from the United States and elsewhere, Crothers makes a powerful argument for its central role in shaping global politics and economies"--

Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam