St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: 5 Volume Set (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781558628472)

The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition. It includes 3, 036 signed essays (300 of them new), alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance). The entries analyze each topic or persons significance in and relevance to American popular culture; in addition to basic factual information, readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance.

Author: Thomas Riggs
ISBN-10: 1558628479
ISBN-13: 9781558628472
Publisher: St. James Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 5
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 29.30lbs
Size: 11.80h x 20.40w x 7.20d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 52
Booklist Ed Choice Reference 01/01/2014 pg. 19