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Mediatribes--making sense of popular culture, the mass media, and everyday life in America
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"Humor is one of the most enigmatic subjects one can deal with. It pervades American popular culture, it is something people desperately crave, yet it resists analysis."
ONE ADVANTAGE of keeping journals is that you have a record of your ideas as they have evolved over the years. Recently I was looking through a journal written in 1980 and noticed plans I had made for teaching a course in popular culture. It was to be called "Popular Culture in American Society."
Popular Culture in American Society: A Course Proposal
The course would deal with topics such as popular music (rock, countrywestern, disco, jazz ... and now one would add rap), comics (Superman, Batman, The Fantastic Four, ...
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