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Article: Eye on the future: popular culture scholarship into the 21st century in honor of Ray B. Browne.
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- Ethnologies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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By Marilyn F. Motz, John G.Nachbar, Michael T. Marsden, and Ronald J. Ambrosetti. (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994. 294 p., ISBN: 0-8797-2655-5, $39.95 U.S.)Ray Brown, a founder of popular culture studies in America, retired from his academic post as Chair of the Popular Culture Department at Bowling Green State University in 1992. In June of that year a group of his friends and colleagues from across the country gathered to honor him. At Browne's request, the focus of the conference was not to look back at his accomplishments but rather to look to the future of popular culture studies. Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the 21
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