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Rituals
and Patterns in Children's Lives
Edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson
Trick-or-treating. Flower girls. Bedtime stories. In a nation
of increasing ethnic, familial, and technological complexity,
the patterns of children's lives both persist and evolve. Kathy
Merlock Jackson considers how such events shape identity and
transmit cultural norms.
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Profiles of Popular Culture
A Reader
Edited and with an introduction by Ray B. Browne
From Hank Williams to hip hop,
Aunt Jemima to NASCAR racing, this volume—edited by a pioneer
in the field—invites readers to reflect on a sampling of
modern myths, icons, archetypes, and rituals.
A Ray and Pat
Browne Book
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King of the Cowboys, Queen
of the West
Roy Rogers and
Dale
Evans
Raymond E. White
This career biography will be the definitive source on two
American icons
For more than sixty years, Roy
Rogers and Dale Evans personified the romantic, mythic West that
America continued to cherish well into the modern age.
A Ray and Pat Browne Book
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From comics to cowboys, from daytime television
to dime novels, from football to folklore.
The Popular Press—the
leading publisher of books on popular culture, throughout America
and worldwide for the past three decades—was acquired by
the University of Wisconsin Press. The Popular Press is now an
imprint under the University of Wisconsin Press banner. Backlist
titles from the Popular Press are available.
Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne, founders and longtime directors
of Popular Press, have promoted and encouraged the scholarly
study of popular culture through their efforts at the Popular
Press, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Popular Culture
Association, and the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling
Green State University in Ohio.
Popular Press titles are available through
the University of Wisconsin Press. They are listed, with their
prices, on this Web site, and customers can also order these
books through our distribution center, by phone Monday–Friday,
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. Call 1 (800) 621-2736 or
(773) 568-1550 or fax (800) 621-8476.
Popular Press titles can be ordered by
going to the UW Press web page for each book and using the shopping
cart/secure credit card feature to order. Popular
Press titles can be found either by using our search
feature or by searching the Popular Press books-in-print list.
The Popular
Culture Association Web site is a source for answers to many
questions about Popular Culture.
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