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Popular Culture Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics Alan Moore: Conversations Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History Art Spiegelman: Conversations Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in pictures Batboys and the World of Baseball The Beatles: Image and the Media The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans Black Velvet Art Born in the U.S.A.: The Myth of American Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity Carl Barks: Conversations Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl Charles M. Schulz: Conversations Chuck Jones: Conversations Civil War Humor Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Johnson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar Comics and the U.S. South Comics as Culture Comics as Philosophy The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking A Comics Studies Reader The Comics Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture The Courting of Marcus Dupree Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an unlikely couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and transformed children's Literature Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture Daniel Clowes: Conversations Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s Elvis and Gladys The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer Faulkner and Popular Culture Film and Comic Books Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire George A. Romero: Interviews Ghost Hunters of the South Global Pop, Local Language Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Hank Williams, So Lonesome Harvey Pekar: Conversations A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear Howard Chaykin: Conversations Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious Interviews with Dwight MacDonald Joss Whedon: Conversations Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema Komiks: Comic Art in Russia Ladies First: Women in Music Videos The Land of the Smokies: Great Mountain Memories The Language of Comics: Word and Image The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods Milton Caniff: Conversations Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records Muffler Men MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream Mystery Fiction and Modern Life New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder The Poetics of American Song Lyrics Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art R. Crumb: Conversations Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field Real Football: Conversations on America's Game Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947 The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change Sports: The All-American Addiction Step Right Up Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era The System of Comics TABASCO®: An Illustrated History Tallulah: My Autobiography Time in Television: Narrative Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation ¡Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928 Walt Disney: Conversations We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City Will Eisner: Conversations With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life Woody Allen: Interviews Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System Working with Disney: Interviews with Animators, Producers, and Artists Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)

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