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POPULAR CULTURE

GREENWOOD SERIES
Pop Culture Places

An Encyclopedia of Pop Goes the Decade
Places in American
Popular Culture The Greenwood Pop Goes the Decades series puts the hot trends, memorable
people, and influential movements of each decade inside a larger cultural and social
3 VOLUMES | GLADYS L. KNIGHT context. By highlighting controversies, students and general readers will develop a
better idea of social values. Similarly, the coverage of the individuals who influenced
each decade enable a deeper understanding of the tension between established
norms and those figures who used pop culture as an avenue for change. The legacy
section of each book in the series demonstrates the lasting effects of each decade
through detailed documentation of how its influence is still felt today.

FORTHCOMING NEW
Pop Goes the Decade Pop Goes the Decade

The Eighties The Fifties

THOMAS HARRISON RALPH G. GIORDANO
GREENWOOD
August 2014, 1,041pp, 8 1/2x11
Print: 978-0-313-39882-7
$310.00, £239.00, €282.00
eBook: 978-0-313-39883-4

This three-volume reference set
explores the history, relevance, and
significance of pop culture locations
in the United States—places that
have captured the imagination of
the American people and reflect the
diversity of the nation. GREENWOOD GREENWOOD
August 2017, 367pp, 7x10 June 2017, 360pp, 7x10
FEATURES Print: 978-1-4408-3666-4 Print: 978-1-4408-4471-3
• Enables readers to perceive how $89.00, £69.00, €81.00 $89.00, £69.00, €81.00
their lives have been influenced by eBook: 978-1-4408-3667-1 eBook: 978-1-4408-4472-0
everyday places in the past, from
centuries ago to the modern era This fascinating overview of popular Covering significant historical and
• Provides unique and enlightening culture in the 1980s describes the cultural moments, public figures and
insights through a comprehensive decade of excess that resulted from celebrities, art and entertainment, and
overview of the history, the social, political, and economic technology that influenced life during
contemporary perspectives, and pop conditions of the time, documenting the decade, this book documents the
culture influences of places across
America why so many milestones in 1950s through the lens of popular
entertainment, arts, and technology culture.
• Spotlights historic locations central
to films, television, music, and daily occurred the 80s.
life to teach students about American RALPH G. GIORDANO is a professional
history and culture through topics THOMAS HARRISON is professor of architect, a full-time teacher at Monsignor
that interest them music business and technology at the Farrell High School, and an adjunct
University of Central Florida. college professor at Kean University in
New Jersey.
GLADYS L. KNIGHT is an author
whose published work includes
Greenwood’s Female Action Heroes:
A Guide to Women in Comics, Video
Games, Film, and Television.
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