Journal of Popular Culture
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The Journal of Popular Culture (JPC) is a peer-reviewed journal and the official publication of the Popular Culture Association.

The Journal of Popular Culture publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular
Popular culture
Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

 or mass culture. The organization has a meeting each year, usually within the continental United States
United States
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, with the American Culture Association.

The Journal of Popular Culture is dedicated to publishing scholarship resulting from studies of popular culture
Popular culture
Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

. The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world. The fabric of human social life is not merely the art
Art
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 deemed worthy to hang in museum
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s, the book
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s that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies' elite. The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.

The JPC is headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing, Michigan
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 and is published six times a year, printed by Blackwell Publishing
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. The editor
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 is Gary C. Hoppenstand.

External links

  • The Journal of Popular Culture at Blackwell Publishing
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  • The Journal of Popular Culture at Michigan State University
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