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Popular culture -- Middle East

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• Popular culture
• Middle East

• Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Walter Armbrust (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Cultural Gutter (book collection of articles from the website; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2010), by Carol Borden, Ian Driscoll, Jim Munroe, James Schellenberg, and Chris Szego (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), by Clare Birchall (PDF with commentary at a oapen.org)
• Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2017), by Judith Fathallah (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Missions for Thoughtful Gamers (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Andrew Cutting (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plenitude (electronic edition 2.0), by Grant David McCracken (HTML at cultureby.com)

• Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2010), ed. by Anne-Maria Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen, and Stephen Jackson (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye: Representing Difference, 1950-2000 (c2011), by Karen Fox (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye: Representing Difference, 1950-2000 (c2011), by Karen Fox (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• From Satori to Silicon Valley (electronic edition, with new introduction and afterthoughts; 2000), by Theodore Roszak (illustrated HTML at Stanford)

• How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture (2010), ed. by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press of Hawaii, c2010), by Zhong Xueping (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Grey (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, c2007), by Jon Armstrong (HTML at nightshadebooks.com)

• Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), ed. by Katherine Pence and Paul Betts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs (1910), by T. Sharper Knowlson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1983), by Patrick Brantlinger
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• English As We Speak It in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,; Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1910), by P. W. Joyce (Gutenberg text)

• Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Eva Paulino Bueno and Terry Caesar (page images at Pitt)

• Spin (online issues from 1985-2012) (partial serial archives)
• Avant-Garde (New York, 1968-1971) (full serial archives)
• Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)
• The Bookman (New York, 1895-1933) (partial serial archives)
• Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (full serial archives)

• Ainslee's (full serial archives)

• The Windsor Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1983), by Patrick Brantlinger
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Stephanie Sieburth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pop Culture Versus Real America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), ed. by Jonathan Margolis, Martin J. Manning, and Megan A. Wong (PDF at america.gov)
• Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (c2009), by Richard L. Schur (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by John Jennings (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Next Step: Exponential Life (Madrid: BBVA, ca. 2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Aubrey D. N. J. De Grey, Jonathan Rossiter, Joseph A. Paradiso, Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, Ramon López de Mántaras, Helen Papagiannis, J. David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Robin Hanson, Stuart J. Russell, Darrell M. West, Chris Skinner, Steven Monroe Lipkin, S. Matthew Liao, James J. Giordano, Luciano Floridi, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, and Martin J. Rees (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (updated edition, c2010), by APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (PDF at apa.org)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine Niggers More (with music; New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1880)
  • page images at Florida
  • page images at HathiTrust; lacks final pages in Florida's copy
• The Ten Little Niggers (with running musical notation on the bottom of the pages; New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1870) (page images at Florida)
• Ten Little Niggers (with tops of pages in silhouette shapes; New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Little Niggers (with cutout page shape; New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1897) (page images at Florida)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

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