Collection: Popular Culture Association
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Teachable podcast episodes:
Waste more, want more: The case for taking objects seriously, with Christine Harold (Things Worth Keeping) and Nicole Seymour (Bad Environmentalism).
On reading, solitude, Edith Wharton, and what a library means to a woman: Sheila Liming (What a Library Means to a Woman) in conversation with Nynke Dorhout and Anne Schuyler of The Mount in Lenox, MA, and Wharton scholar Donna Campbell.
Travel, spiritual and physical, in Christopher Isherwood: A conversation between Jim Berg and Chris Freeman (Isherwood in Transit) and University of Minnesota Press director Doug Armato.
Spotify playlist:
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The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry
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The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall
- How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring
- A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
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Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall
- A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring
- From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
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Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring
- How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
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Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring
- A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
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