New Books in Popular Culture
Latest Episodes
Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
An interview with Rachel S. Gross
Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
An interview with Heather Akou
Stephen Lee Naish, "Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper" (Routledge, 2024)
An interview with Stephen Lee Naish
John O’Connor, "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster" (Sourcebooks, 2024)
An interview with John OConnor,
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
An interview with Peter D. McDonald
Micajah Henley, "The Clash's Sandinista!" (Bloombury, 2024)
An interview with Micajah Henley
Eleanor Patterson, "Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
An interview with Eleanor Patterson
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
Its the UConn Popcast, and Taylor Swift is by some measures the most popular person on the planet. Her periodic reinventions set the mass cultural terms of debate, and her political interventions through exhorting her fans on social media lead to hug
David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
An interview with David Savran