Chapter Links
Chapter One: Introducing
Popular Culture
Chapter Two: The
History of Popular Culture
Chapter Three:
Representation and the Construction of Social Reality
Chapter Four: The
Production of Popular Culture
Chapter Five: The
Consuming Life
Chapter Six: Identity
and the Body
Chapter Seven:
Identity and Community
Chapter Eight:
Subcultures and Countercultures
Chapter Nine: Globalization
and Popular Culture
Chapter Ten: Why
Study Popular Culture? A Brief History of Cultural Studies
Chapter
One: Introducing Popular Culture
Coffee Universe
http://www.coffeeuniverse.com/
"The world's leading coffee
buying guide."
National Coffee Association
of U.S.A., Inc.
http://www.ncausa.org
Web site for the major coffee
trade association in the United States.
Includes a short history of coffee as well as industry sales and consumption
statistics.
PopCultures
http://www.popcultures.com
Contains extensive information
(assembled by Sarah Zupko) about cultural studies and the study of popular
culture, including academic programs, articles, book reviews, information
on theorists and concepts, and so on.
PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com
Sister site to PopCultures. Billed
as "the magazine of global culture," pop matters features an astonishing
range of television, music, and film reviews and interviews. Updated daily,
it also features a massive archive.
Starbucks Coffee
http://www.starbucks.com
Home page for Starbucks Coffee.
Users can access the Starbucks Corporate Social Responsibility Report
as well as sample music available on the CDs that are marketed by the
company.
Starbucks Everywhere
http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net/
Starbucks fan site. Extensive
photo-documentation of Starbucks stores across North America. The aim
of "Winter," the owner of this site, is to eventually visit every Starbucks
store in the world.
I Hate Starbucks
http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/
A site critical of the Starbucks
phenomenon.
Tim Hortons
http://www.timhortons.com
Corporate home page for Tim Hortons
stores.
Chapter
Two: The History of Popular Culture
History of Football (Soccer)
http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/football/
This site has information on
popular culture in the 1800s as well as an interesting PowerPoint presentation
of the development of soccer. Discusses bullbaiting and cockfighting as
well.
The Penny Magazine
http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/
Site features selected issues
of The Penny Magazine , a nineteenth century publication aimed
at the working class as part of the rational recreation initiative. Includes
pieces on natural history and sites of interest around the country as
well as stories and poetry.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/london-life/
Contains useful overview of everyday
urban life in London during the 17 th, 18 th and 19 th centuries. The
main focus of the site is texts dealing with criminal proceedings in London's
central court. Offers an intriguing glimpse into the conditions in which
British popular culture developed.
Tokyo Street Hockey Association
http://www.tokyohockey.com/index.html
Street hockey goes global! Information,
maps, and video of street hockey, Japanese-style.
Victorian Recreation
http://www.fashion-era.com/victorian_recreations.htm
Compendium of information on
Victorian popular culture with a focus on fashion. Includes entries on
music, dancing and Derby Day races.
Chapter
Three: Representation and the
Construction of Social Reality
Roland Barthes
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/myth.htm
Useful introduction to the work
of Roland Barthes, including lucid analysis of the concepts of mythology
and semiotics.
GLAAD
http://www.glaad.org/about/index.php?PHPSESSID=d707e222e442ec17f68ee8c745761c73
Publication for the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation. Contains articles on the representation
of gay, lesbian and transgendered people in the media.
MCS
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media
UK-based index of resources for
communications and media studies.
Contains useful links to essays on such topics as semiotics, visual media
and audience reception.
Media Awareness Network
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/tools/site_directory/index.cfm
Canadian site focussing on media education, features pieces on stereotyping
media and effects of media violence.
Postmodern Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html
On-line version of journal containing
interdisciplinary essays on postmodern culture. Entire journal is available
to subscribers only, but selected articles available to general readers.
Youth Crime in Canada
http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/PUB/C16.htm#exe
1998 document published by the
John Howard analyzing distinction between
perception and reality of youth crime in Canada.
Chapter
Four: The Production of Popular Culture
Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
http://www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html
Comprehensive site dealing with
the life and times of the critic Walter Benjamin. The site collects essays
both about and inspired by Benjamin, as ell as translations of his own
writing.
Canadian Intellectual Property
Office (CIPO)
http://cipo.gc.ca/
CIPO is the government agency
responsible for processing and administering ntellectual property law
in Canada. Canadian regulations regarding trademarks and copyright are
laid out in detail. It is interesting to compare and contrast the information
here with that posted on the Website of the World Intellectual Property
Organization, of which Canada is a member: http://www.wipo.org/
CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org
CorpWatch counters corporate-led
globalization through education, network-building and activism. We work
to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots
globalization, a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor
rights and environmental justice."
Film Site's History of U.S Film
http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html
Superb overview of the history
of film (primarily U.S.), with links to specific years and specific films.
The listed films have very detailed plot overviews. Film Site provides
a list of the top 100 box offices adjusted for inflation (which places
1939's Gone with the Wind on the top of the list over Star
Wars; Titanic makes an appearance in sixth place.)
Illuminations: The Critical
Theory Website
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
Extensive information on the
work of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and other members of the Frankfurt
School. Extensive links, as well as articles and overviews of theories
and concepts.
Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org
The most important of the independent
media sources that have sprung up as a result of new communications and
audiovisual technologies. IndyMedia is composed of numerous satellite
branches, including outlets in Calgary and Hamilton.
Linux
http://www.linux.org/
Home page of the free, open-source
Unix-based computer operating system.
Even for the computer illiterate, the "General Info" located on this site
makes for interesting reading. The site also contains a description of
the GNU General Public License system ( http://www.linux.org/info/gnu.html
), which is designed to guarantee that the changes and modifications
to Linux remain open to further modification by all users.
Movie Web's List of Top Grossing
Films of All Time http://movieweb.com/movie/alltime.html
A list of top box office grosses
of all time, unadjusted for inflation.
Who Owns What
http://www.cjr.org/owners/
Columbia Journalism Review's
comprehensive list of media owners, including
an archive of articles from past
issues of CJR on media ownership.
Chapter
Five: The Consuming Life
Advertising Age Timeline
http://adage.com/century/timeline/index.html
An illustrated timeline of developments
in advertising from 1704 to the present. The site also lists the Top 100
ad campaigns and people in advertising, and the Top 10 jingles, slogans
and ad icons (In fifth place: The Energizer Bunny).
Commercial Closet
http://www2.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
Publication focused on portrayal of lesbigays in advertising. Aimed
primarily at retailers and advertisers seeking to target products to lesbigay
community through more sensitive advertising.
Conference Board: Consumer Confidence
Index
http://www.consumerresearchcenter.org/consumer_confidence/
The Conference Board conducts
the monthly Consumer Confidence Survey, which measures the public's confidence
in the health of the U.S. economy. A summary of the latest survey is available
on-line, along with a description of the methodology for determining consumer
confidence.
Emergence of Advertising in
the U.S., 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
A comprehensive Web resource
drawing on images and textual materials in uke University's
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
The Hartman Center also features a Web resource that focuses on medical
advertising ("Medicine and Madison Avenue'") and materials from
the university archives of the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
Gender, Pleasure, and Consumption
http://www.assumption.edu/users/McClymer/his394/classschedule.html
(To reach page, click on "Consumer
Ethos" hyperlink at top of this class schedule link). Interesting
materials to accompany Dr. John McClymer's seminar on "Culture Wars of
the 1920s." Through an exploration of the gendered dynamics of consumption
during a formative period, McClymer highlights the connections between
gender, pleasure and consumption that have persisted through to the present.
Gender, Race and Ethnicity in
Advertising
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecommstud/resources/GenderMedia/advertising.html
Index of articles and images
on issues relating to the representation of race, ethnicity and gender
in print and television ads.
Merchants of Cool
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
Fabulous and extensive site that
fleshes out the themes and issues addressed in the video. Includes interviews
with media scholars Mark Crispin Miller and Robert McChesney, information
on the size of today's media giants, and a discussion of the practice
of "cool hunting."
Thorstein Veblen
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/veblen/
On-line course materials, including
a full text version of Veblen's "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and
other seminal writings.
West Edmonton Mall
http://www.westedmall.com/home/homepage.asp
A cornucopia of on-line consumption
on display at the home page of the world's largest shopping center. Take
the video tour of the mall or visit any of its 800 merchants.
Chapter
Six: Identity and the Body
Bodies of Culture/Body Modification
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Exhibits/bodmodintro.html
University of Pennsylvania site
focussing on practices of body modification (tattooing, scarification,
piercing, etc.) in the past and present. Includes images of historical
forms of body modification on display in the University of Pennsylvania
Museum.
Extreme Makeover
http://abc.abcnews.go.com/primetime/extrememakeover/index.html
ABC site with details and application
form for the TV show Extreme Makeover , in which selected volunteers
receive free diet and beauty advice and plastic surgery.
Michel Foucault
http://theory.org.uk/ctr-fou1.htm
An introduction to the work of
Michel Foucault including bibliography and link to other sites on Foucault.
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Television
Characters
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/tv-characters.html
Comprehensive list, including
brief summaries, of television shows featuring gay, lesbian and bisexual
characters.
Gender
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/gender.html
Index to Web resources on gender
issues including the gender and sexual politics of different media, and
pop cultural practices such as shopping.
Queer Theory.com
http://www.queertheory.com/
Index to online resources focussing
on queer, lesbigay and gender studies. Topics include academics, politics,
bodies and histories.
Steve Mann
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/
Website of Steve Mann, University
Toronto professor and inventor of the first wearable computer. Features
photos, bio, and links to other sites on cybertechnology.
Chapter
Seven: Identity and Community
African Diaspora
http://www.muhajabah.com/anti-arab.htm
Index of sites on subjects relating
to African diaspora. Topics include education, entertainment and sports.
Border Crossings
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/diaspora.html
Index of sites focussing on border-crossing
communities, including diaspora (African, Asian, etc.), lesbigay culture
and cyborgs.
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational
Studies
http://www.utpjournals.com/diaspora/
Online version of University
of Toronto journal featuring summaries of scholarly articles on issues
relating to diasporas.
Introduction to Postcolonial
Studies
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Intro.html
Site based at Emory University
offering useful summaries of key terms and theorists, as well as links
to other postcolonial sites.
Links About Stereotyping of
Arabs and Muslims
http://www.muhajabah.com/anti-arab.htm
Links to stories that analyze
and challenge stereotypical media representations of Arabs and Muslims.
Molson Banner
http://www.videoclipstream.com/akamai/therant/molsonbanner.html
Video clip of Molson's "I AM
CANADIAN" TV ad, aka "The Rant."
Chapter
Eight: Subcultures and Countercultures
Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org
Home of culture jamming and other
forms of creative resistance to global consumer culture.
Disinformation
http://www.disinfo.com/
A search engine for and on-line
compendium of subcultural activities and practices. Topics include aliens,
mind control, the paranormal and spirituality, and skateboarding.
Dogtown and Z Boys Official
Site
http://www.sonyclassics.com/dogtown/
Background information on the
Zephyr skate team, a useful and detailed timeline of the birth of skateboarding,
and pictures and video from the film.
Histories of Punk
http://www.punk77.co.uk/
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/punk.htm
http://www.punkhistorycanada.ca/portal/index.php
There are several interesting
on-line histories of punk rock: Punk 77, which offers a detailed overview
of UK punk from 1976-79; the punk history offered by the on-line music
'zine Fast n' Bulbous; and a distinctively Canadian view of things at
Punk History Canada.
Infoshop
http://www.infoshop.org/
The on-line source of information
and links to anarchist groups, techniques,
activities, etc. Includes links
to material such as "Black Blocs for Dummies."
PopSubculture Biographical Reference
http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/
Biographies and bibliographies
of sub- and counterculture prophets from Emiliano Zapata to Charles Bukowski.
Situationist International Archives
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/
The SI archives has information,
images and texts relating to Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem and other Situationists.
The site includes on-line versions of Debord's Society of the Spectacle
and Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life.
Chapter
Nine: Globalization and Popular Culture
Cultural Survival
http://www.cs.org
Web site of an organization devoted
to the promotion of the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples
around the world.
Focus on the Global South
http://www.focusweb.org/
"Focus aims to consciously and
consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local
community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change.
Focus on the Global South strives to create a distinct and cogent link
between development at the grassroots and the 'macro' levels."
Globalization 101
http://globalization101.org/
Billed as a "Student's Guide
to Globalization," this site has news reports, issue briefs, and expert
opinions on topics related to globalization.
Institute on Globalization and
the Human Condition, McMaster University
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/
A research institute at McMaster
University that has a wide variety of information on globalization, including
articles, bibliographies, and event listings.
International Forum on Globalization
http://www.ifg.org/
An organization devoted to providing
alternative perspectives and analysis of the process of economic globalization.
The IFG challenges "the commonly held belief that a globalized economy
would 'lift all boats.'"
World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org/
The Website of the international
organization that brings business, political and cultural leaders together
each year for a week-long meeting organized around a specific theme.
World Social Forum
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/home.asp
An international organization
set up in opposition to the World Economic Forum. The WSF brings together
groups and individuals committed to more socially just forms of globalization,
and hosts an annual meeting each January.
Yale Global On-Line
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/index.jsp
Publication of the Yale Center
for the Study of Globalization. Yale Global has general information on
globalization as well as original essays dealing with contemporary world
issues.
Chapter
Ten: Why Study Popular Culture? A Brief History of Cultural Studies
Canadian Association of Cultural
Studies
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~english
Home page for the new academic
association in Canada devoted to the study and teaching of cultural studies.
Communication, Culture and Media
Studies (CCMS)
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
Index of organizations and resources
plus glossary of terms and theorists related to the study of media and
communication studies.
Counterblast
http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/counterblast/
E-journal produced by faculty
and graduate students at New York University's
Department of Culture and Communication. Features articles analyzing media,
art, architecture, music and other forms of communication.
CTheory
http://www.ctheory.net/
On-line journal (based in Canada)
focusing on cultural studies and cultural theory.
Cultural Studies Central
http://www.culturalstudies.net/index.html
Billed as "the" place for cultural
studies on the net, it is distinguished in part by its link to on-line
Web projects devoted to cultural studies.
Feminist Responses to Pop Culture
http://www.bitchmagazine.com/
Feminist magazine devoted to critiques
of TV, film, advertising and magazines
and other aspects of pop culture,
including subcultural practices such as slash fiction.
Save Cultural Studies
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/culturalstudies/
Contains information on the history
of the development of cultural studies at the Centre for Contemporary
Studies, University of Birmingham. The Centre has recently been closed
down by the University; this Web site has been set up in order to document
the efforts that have been made to revive cultural studies at Birmingham.
Theory.org.uk
http://www.theory.org.uk/main.htm
British site featuring new cultural
studies resources, including books and Websites, discussion of major theorists
(Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, Antonio Gramsci, Judith Butler) plus
trading cards and-believe it or not-Lego figures.
Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural
Studies
http://www.yorku.ca/topia/
Web site of the most important
academic journal of cultural studies in Canada.
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Massive, unparalleled site for
research of all kinds in the humanities.
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