Time Passages Collective Memory and American Popular Culture George Lipsitz Table of Contents		$22.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3881-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3881-9
The classic work on collective memory and popular culture in the United States. Probes the complicated relationship between postwar America between historical memory and commercial culture-popular television, music, and film. "Time Passages is a far-reaching-and perhaps permanent-contribution to cultural studies." —San Francisco Review of Books "What really separates Lipsitz from earlier critics of popular culture is that he got his rock diploma from the high-school gym, not the Frankfurt School. Lipsitz knows the color of the labels, the B-sides, the cover versions." —Boston Phoenix Literary Section "In a series of provocative and finely crafted essays on film, rock 'n' roll, early television, popular novels, New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations, and other aspects of popular culture, Lipsitz argues that popular culture has been, and remains, an arena of hope, possibility, criticism, and even resistance for millions of ordinary people." —American Studies “With the contemporary language of popular culture, the author offers many insights into the diversity of the American experience.” —Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas George Lipsitz is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he serves as director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute. He is the author of many books, including American Studies in a Moment of Danger and Footsteps in the Dark. He also edited Stan Weir's Singlejack Solidarity. 328 pages | 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 | 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Culture and History 1. Popular Culture: This Ain’t No Sideshow 2. Precious and Communicable: History in an Age of Popular Culture Popular Television 3. The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television 4. Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Women’s Narrative Popular Music 5. Against the Wind: Dialogic Aspects of Rock and Roll 6. Cruising Around the Historical Bloc: Postmodernism and Popular Music in East Los Angeles Popular Film 7. No Way Out: Dialogue and Negotiation in Reel America 8. The New York Intellectuals: Samuel Fuller and Edgar Ulmer Popular Narrative 9. History, Myth, and Counter-Memory: Narrative and Desire in Popular Novels 10. Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans History and the Future 11. Buscando America (Looking for America): Collective Memory in an Age of Amnesia Notes Index