Globalization & American Popular Culture

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Globalization & American Popular Culture Lane Crothers. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2007.

Lane Crothers provides a highly accessible introduction to basic concepts of cultural studies specifically as related to economic globalization. He begins with a brief examination of means of evaluating culture, moving from a broad anthropological/ideological perspective to the more specific notion of an American culture constructed through the distribution and consumption of popular media. Crothers then provides an overview of the technology and history of recorded media, which he identifies as the central component of both domestic and exported American popular …