Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture

Accelerated Innovation and Increased Spatial Diversity of US Popular Culture

At a time of increasing globalization of much popular culture, we observe not a rise but a marked fall in the spatial homogeneity of the popularity of first names across the United States in recent decades. We explain this apparent paradox by calibrating a modified standard model of neutral cultural evolution to the record of first name popularities for the United as a whole since 1900 and acro...

Christianity and Popular Culture

popular culture and beliefs in sindbad-nameh

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Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Alcohol brand appearances in US popular music.

AIMS The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popu...