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• 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)
• Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2010), by Jim Collins (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)
• 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)

• The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020), ed. by Anthony Kwame Harrison and Craig E. Arthur (multiple formats at with commentary at vt.edu)
• A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture, by Clayton Funk (multiple formats with commentary at at Pressbooks)

• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Satori to Silicon Valley (electronic edition, with new introduction and afterthoughts; 2000), by Theodore Roszak (illustrated HTML at Stanford)
• 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)
• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Jeffrey N. Gatten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Vanity Fair (humor weekly of the 1860s) (partial serial archives)

• The Baffler (1988-) (full serial archives)

• Slate (full serial archives)
• Americana, ed. by H. L. Mencken (full serial archives)

• The Monthly Magazine, and American Review (full serial archives)

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

• Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Marc D. Perry
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020), ed. by Anthony Kwame Harrison and Craig E. Arthur (multiple formats at with commentary at vt.edu)

• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (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)

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

• New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Thomas Frank (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

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

• Unpopular Culture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• 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)
• Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Chris Rojek (HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com)
• 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)

• 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)

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