popular culture
- Tutorial identifies various areas of popular culture from ancient times to the present, with a North American and European focus.- 1920s Experience
- Arts, entertainment, personailties, music, events, inventions, and fads. - American Icons
- Wide-ranging series from PRI's Studio 360. Host Kurt Andersen explores the art, books, movies, music, and design that have come to represent the culture and character of the United States. - Authentic History Center
- Comprises images, artifacts, sounds, written letters, and diaries that illustrate American popular culture from the American Revolution through to the modern age. - Bad Fads
- The fads you wished would stay forever (or never come back). - BBC Online: I Love
- A look at TV, music, film, toys, and fashions throughout the decades. - Crazyfads.com
- Lists fads that have come and gone by decade starting with the 1920s. - Detritus
- Dedicated to recycled culture. - Do You Remember?
- Online resource of nostalgia and memorabilia from the '70s, '80s and '90s. - Hipster Handbook
- Guide for those who possess taste, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. Includes a hipster quiz, daily picks, glossary, clues to if you are a hipster, and more. - Identity and Media Culture Icons
- Derived from a Communications Theory seminar exploring popular media influences on identity. - Institute of Official Cheer, The
- Where old pop culture is converted into chipper, spiffy, feather-light postmodern commentary on commercial culture. - Nostalgia Central
- Look at the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s in television, music, movies, toys, and popular culture. - Nuke Pop
- Nuclear war imagery in popular culture. - Once Were Heroes!
- Celebrates British youth culture in the 20th century. - ookworld: Observing Obscure Kulture
- Eclectic sundries for the kulturally shell shocked. - Painstick's Playhouse
- Featuring retro culture, old ads, Pez art, cereal boxes, and more. - PicksPop
- Pop culture pick 'em game. Predict pop culture events, accumulate points, and prove how in-the-know you are. - Pop History Now
- Features a random year in pop history every weekday. Covers music, televison, movies, news, and politics. - PopCult Magazine
- Online magazine featuring articles and photo galleries devoted to pop culture of the past and present. - Popular Culture Library
- Research collection documenting late 19th and 20th century American popular culture. - Port Halcyon
- An "online town" themed to the golden days of music, fashion, and culture, with original articles about classic entertainment, a forum, and reviews. Offers vintage merchandise as well, including clothing, music, movies, books, and calendars. - Retro Junk
- A nostalgia-filled look into our past, offering a selection of '80s commercials, theme songs, and movie trailers. - Retrofuture
- What happened to all that futuristic stuff which was supposed to change our lives by the year 2000? Find out here. - Retroland
- Social networking site and pop culture encyclopedia. Relive the fads and phenomena from your youth and connect with other members of your generation. - Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center: Calls for Papers/Conferences
- Comprehensive guide to cultural studies and popular culture on the Internet. - Secret Fun Spot
- Images of toys, cartoons, and other memorabilia. - Shoot the Messenger
- A Christian view of popular culture. - Snark Hunting
- Investigates naming and branding in popular culture. - Stay Free!
- Print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture. - Symbolism.Org
- Explores the relationship of popular culture to symbols and symbolism. - This Is Pop
- Features sites specializing in cult TV, film and music, comic books, old time radio, action figures and more. - Vot Der Dumboozle?
- A popular culture excavation site. - Web Generation
- Online community where people can experience nostalgia while sharing their memories of fads, personalities, history, and music from the past decades through the present. - Whole Pop Magazine
- Popular culture, including trivia, Sixties games, retro side-trips, and collectibles. - World of Kitsch
- Bringing you examples of the most desireable, yet hideous kitsch including music, celebrities, film, and more traditional items of kitsch. - X-Entertainment
- Bringing to light many of the more obscure, geeky parts of pop-culture that often get buried as years go by.
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