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HISTORY OF THE POPULAR CULTURE MOVEMENT |
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2006 PCA/ACA Conference Information Page 2006 PCA/ACA Graduate Student Award Information Peter Rollins - Michael Schoenecke Travel Grants for Graduate Students Madonna Marsden International Travel Grant Award Journal of Popular Culture Travel Awards Journal of American Culture Travel Awards The Marshall Fishwick Travel to Popular Culture Collections Grants PCA Professional Awards ACA Professional Awards Carl Bode Award John Cawelti Book Award presented by the American Culture Association Organizational Information & History Popular Culture Association PCA/ACA Joint Newsletter PCA/ACA Joint Newsletter 2 American Culture Association H-PCAACA Discussion List Information |
The Popular Culture Association was founded as a spin-off of the American Studies movement in the late 1960s. Many members of the ASA felt that the organization had lost its holistic approach to cultural studies. Tiresome and repetitive studies of Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman were followed by further tiresome and repetitive studies of Whitman, Hawthorne, and Melville. There was little room for material culture, popular music, movies, and comics. (These flaws have been mitigated over time by ASA.) And so the Popular Culture Association was created. Its journal, The Journal of Popular Culture has been focusing on the popular arts and architecture ever since. The focus is NOT simply American and NOT simply contemporary. Popular culture is world-wide and has been a constant for humanity since the days of Alley Oop. For additional details, see Ray Browne's history of the movement, a book entitled Against Academia (Popular Press, 1989), the story of the founder's uphill battle against the stodgy academic world and in his attempts to force academics to study the life and culture of real people. For additional information about the PCA contact:
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