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POP CULTURE

Arts & Humanities (general)

Chester Library N.J. Arts, Literature, and Humanities Links http://chester-library.gti.net/arts.htm
Montana Library Arts and Humanities Indexes & Databases http://www.lib.montana.edu/epubs/indexes/human.html
Lakemac Arts and Humanities Links http://www.lakemac.infohunt.nsw.gov.au/library/links/arts_and_humanities.htm
Art History Resources & Links http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Music

All Music Guide (biographies, reviews) http://allmusic.com/
The Red Hot Jazz Archive http://www.redhotjazz.com/index.htm
Operabase.com http://operabase.com/
University of Washington World Music & Ethnomusicology Links http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html
Worldwide Internet Music Resources http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

Hip Hop

Cultural Historian Davey D http://www.daveyd.com
Davey D's Links http://www.daveyd.com/whatiship.html
Brownpride Music & Culture site http://www.brownpride.com
Hip hop, Rap, and Hip Hop Culture site http://www.b-boys.com/
Hip Hop City.com http://hiphopcity.com/directory/
Rap and Hip Hop History http://rap.about.com/cs/history/

Racism

Racism  http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Racism.asp
Global Issues: Racism http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Racism.asp
Wikipedia: Racism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Ethnocentrism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Xenophobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia
Miscegenation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation
Stereotype http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype
Racism in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States
World Conference Against Racism http://www.un.org/WCAR/
National Anti-Racism Council of Canada http://www.narcc.ca/index.html
Artists Against Racism http://www.artistsagainstracism.com/
 February is African Heritage month.  Check out the following site for a wealth of materials about African-Canadians. http://www.blackhistorycanada.ca/

Pop Culture Online

Pop Culture Journals

Images: a journal of film and popular culture http://www.imagesjournal.com/index.html
The Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/
Journal of  Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/
Postmodern Culture http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/

Pop Culture Sites

Adbusters  http://www.adbusters.org/home/

About Adbusters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters

Advertising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising

The Hidden Face behind Advertising (Chris McLean) http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Hidden%20Face%20Behind%20Advertising.html

WSIB Shock ads (VIEWER DISCRETION... seriously)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5kiz7GhJt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_LWq88H5I

Art History Resources on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html 

Art of the late 20th century http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH20thcentury.html#Later20century

Barbie dolls http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/sund/dreamgirl/corpbrand.html
Roland Barthes: Mythologies: http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/myth.htm
The Book of Zines http://www.zinebook.com/
Capitalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/CAPITAL.HTM
http://www.capitalism.net/
http://www.capmag.com/
http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Enc/Capitalism.html
Noam Chomsky Archive  http://www.chomsky.info/
Critique: Pop Culture-- who cares? http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-4260-803FCC0-39DB6C9C-prod1
Comic Art  
http://www.comicartmagazine.com/
http://www.comicartcommunity.com/
http://www.comic-art.com/
http://www.comicartlinks.com/
http://www.comicartcollective.com/
http://www.comicbookpros.com/
http://www.dragonberry.com/
http://www.budplant.com/
Consumerism   
Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism 
Consumption http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/nrc2.html  
Behind It http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption.asp
Overcoming It http://www.verdant.net/society.htm    
Resisting It http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/ml/
Culture & Cultural Studies: Sociosite http://www.sociosite.net/
Culture Studies Central http://home.earthlink.net/~rmarkowitz/
Cyberculture Center  http://rccs.usfca.edu/default.asp
Disney's effects on youth ("Disnification"), by Henry Giroux http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/Giroux/Giroux2.html
Umberto Eco's Prophetic Vision of Mass Culture, by Rocco Capozzi http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/mcluhan-studies/v1_iss1/1_1art10.htm
Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/
E-zine List http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/
Globalization http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/mia/part1.htm
The Value of High Culture, by Joe Sartelle http://eserver.org/bs/11/Intro.html

Illuminations: Nietzsche's Critique of Mass Culture, by Douglas Kellner http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell22.htm

Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/

Intercultural Relations http://www.interculturalrelations.com/v1i4Fall1998/f98kim.htm

Media Literacy  http://www.laplaza.org/about_lap/archives/mlit/media_3.html
Museum of Television and Radio http://www.mtr.org/

Media Literacy Reading Room http://www.medialit.org/search.php?topic_search=all&keyword_search=

Pop Art

Pop Art definitions

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/pop-art.html  
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/pop_art.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art

Pop Artists  
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pop.html
http://wwar.com/categories/Artists/Masters/Pop_Art/

Pop Culture Icons: Surveys: who are the greatest? http://www.snet.net/features/survey/articles/1999/04160101.shtml http://www.epinions.com/musc-contemp_culture_influence          

What is Popular Culture? http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring01/Falor/whatis.html
Product Placement

Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxiWsJFrVUw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv79rMpSlF4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGe7ILjS34&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYp9yXuWd4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQ052lBXow&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eNs-CjxUu4&feature=related

Project Censored Homepage http://www.projectcensored.org
Protect Popular Culture http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Embassy/1504/
Rock n' Roll history  http://www.history-of-rock.com/
Semiotics
Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
Semiotics for Beginners, Daniel Chandler http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
Semiotics & Advertising, Robert Goldman & Stephen Papson http://www.lclark.edu/~goldman/hypersig/hypersignification.htm
Semiotics & Media http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/
Semiotics Sites of Significance http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/EngSem1.html
Surrealism  http://www.gosurreal.com/history.htm
University of Iowa Gateway to the Internet: Popular Culture http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/culturalStudies.html
Urban Legends Archive http://www.urbanlegends.com/
Warhol
Andy Warhol Museum http://www.warhol.org/
Warhol links http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol.html
Andy Warhol Online http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/warhol_andy.html
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
Warhol Foundation http://www.warholfoundation.org/
Warhols.com http://www.warhols.com/
Web Hypertext Theory & Resources/Links http://www.columbia.edu/itc/visualarts/r4100/bookmarks.html

Definitions

Definitions: myth, legend, pop, icon http://www.writedesignonline.com/assignments/mythlegendpopicon.html
Ethnocentrism  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism
Iconography  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconography
Ideology  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology
Information Technology glossary http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/glossary.html
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/maslow.html
http://www.accel-team.com/maslow_/maslow_nds_02.html
Media literacy  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy
Militarization  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization
Miscegenation  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation
Product Placement  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement
Racism  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Segregation  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation
Semiotics  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
Stereotype  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype
Vertical Integration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration
Xenophobia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia

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