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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
Length:
5,520 words
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Modern studies tend to find popular culture an elusive concept, though there is rough agreement that it encompasses the common ...

Popular Culture

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Encyclopedia of Global Change

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Science and technology, Environmental Science, Social sciences, Environment
Length:
2,796 words

The idea of global change lies deep in the collective imagination of the Western tradition. Drawing on widespread antecedent accounts ...

Popular Culture

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Art & Architecture, Philosophy
Length:
2,743 words

The term popular culture can refer broadly to common aesthetic or life practices, in both the statistical and qualitative senses. ...

Popular Culture and the Bible

Popular Culture and the Bible   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Bible

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Religion
Length:
1,407 words

The Bible has been a fixture in American popular culture from the first European settlements to the present. Mentioning only ...

Popular Arts and Culture

Popular Arts and Culture   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
1,163 words

Popular culture can be generally defined as some aspect of culture that is accepted and consumed by significant numbers of ...

Popular Culture

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Regional and National History, Philosophy
Length:
1,158 words

African popular culture, like that of any world region, is marked by diversity; it draws heavily from the cultures of ...

Popular culture

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Art & Architecture
Length:
799 words
Illustration(s):
1

Popular culture, including both pre-industrial craft and folk art and industrialized mass culture, has had a major impact on the ...

Popular Culture, War in Australian

Popular Culture, War in Australian   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
3,056 words

Australian popular culture has always been dominated by cultural products imported from elsewhere (first from Britain, later from the United ...

Popular culture

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The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Law
Length:
3,131 words

There are times when the facts and issues of a particular case bring judges directly into contact with manifestations of ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Science and technology, Medicine and health
Length:
46 words
Cultural and recreational activities, including many sports, shared by many people in society. Popular culture originates and evolves from the general population itself in contrast with ... More
Popular Culture

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
178 words

In the second half of the 20th c. what is loosely called popular culture has been extensively studied and discussed ...

Popular Culture

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Yves Laberge, M. Alison Kibler, Amanda D. Lotz, and Amy Mattson Lauters

The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History
Length:
9,041 words
Illustration(s):
4
This entry consists of four subentries:Overview Comparative History Broadcasting, Radio, and Television Print Media ...Overview Popular ... More
Popular Culture, Portrayal of Archaeology in

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Brian M. Fagan, Cornelius Holtorf, Cornelius Holtorf, Cornelius Holtorf, Edward James, Cornelius Holtorf, and Cornelius Holtorf

The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Archaeology
Length:
3,352 words

Overview Archaeology on Screen Archaeology in Fiction and Nonfiction Literature Archaeology in Science Fiction Archaeology as a Theme ...

Popular Culture.

Popular Culture.   Reference library

Martha Bayles

The Oxford Companion to United States History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
1,651 words
“Popular culture” is a problematic term. To use it as an antonym of “high culture” is both illogical and ahistorical: illogical because the antonyms of “popular” and “high” are, ... More
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (20th century onwards)
Length:
638 words
often overlaps, and/or is confused with, ‘folk culture’, ‘working-class culture’, ‘mass culture’, ‘consumer culture’, and ‘sub-culture’. The history of changing and contested semantics of ... More

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