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Media studies Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature 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 Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks The Beatles: Image and the Media Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television The Circle of Guilt The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Johnson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar Comics as Culture The Comics Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Defining New Yorker Humor Defining Travel: Diverse Visions Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear Interviews with Betty Friedan Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Is There a Southern Political Tradition? Jazz in American Culture Ladies First: Women in Music Videos The Language of Comics: Word and Image Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975 The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism Obituaries in American Culture Odd-Egg Editor On Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South The Rise of David Duke The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination World War I and the Cultures of Modernity A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press	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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