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Performative Commemoratives, The Personal, And The Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, And The Field Of Folklore, Jack Santino Oct 2004

Performative Commemoratives, The Personal, And The Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, And The Field Of Folklore, Jack Santino

Popular Culture Faculty Publications

AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2004


Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2004

Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 200. Transcriptions and cassette tapes (14) of interviews that Amber Ridington, Western Kentucky University student, had with Joe Marshall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and other individuals who were knowledgeable about the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a music and recreational venue in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Built Along The Shores Of Macatawa: The History Of Boat Building In Holland, Michigan, Geoffrey D. Reynolds Jul 2004

Built Along The Shores Of Macatawa: The History Of Boat Building In Holland, Michigan, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Built Along the Shores of Macatawa: The History of Boat Building in Holland, Michigan is an article concerning the history of ship and boat building in the Holland, Michigan area from 1836-2004.


Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps: A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History, Katherine Rankin Apr 2004

Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps: A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

Starting with the 1844 Fremont Map, and going through the present day, each era of Las Vegas history is described.


The Bible And Popular Culture: Engaging Sacred Text In The World Of "Others", Mary E. Hess Jan 2004

The Bible And Popular Culture: Engaging Sacred Text In The World Of "Others", Mary E. Hess

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Race For The Senate–A Content Analysis Of The Campaign Coverage Of West Virginia Senate Candidates Marie Redd And Tom Scott In 1998 And Marie Redd And Evan Jenkins In 2002, Lynne Marsh Jan 2004

Race For The Senate–A Content Analysis Of The Campaign Coverage Of West Virginia Senate Candidates Marie Redd And Tom Scott In 1998 And Marie Redd And Evan Jenkins In 2002, Lynne Marsh

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In the 1998 general election, Marie Redd became the first African American elected to the state senate in West Virginia. In the 5th District Senate race for her seat in the Legislature, Redd overcame the influence of opponent Tom Scott's incumbency, as well as his race and gender. Then, in the 2002 primary election, the freshman senator lost her seat to Evan Jenkins, also a caucasian male and a former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Previous research has shown that media treat candidates differently according to their race and gender and researchers have indicated the need for …


Fall 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm Jan 2004

Fall 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

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Summer 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm Jan 2004

Summer 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

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What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation Of Proverbs In Contemporary Life, Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, Stephen D. Winick Jan 2004

What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation Of Proverbs In Contemporary Life, Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, Stephen D. Winick

All USU Press Publications

In this collection of essays, prominent folklorists look at varied modern uses and contexts of proverbs and proverbial speech, some traditional and conventional, others new and unexpected. After the editors' introduction discussing the history and status of attempts to define proverbs, describing their contemporary circulation, and acknowledging the especially important work of paremiologist Wolfgang Meider, the contributions examine the continuing pervasiveness and idiomatic relevance of proverbs in modern culture.


Contesting Identities: Sports In American Film [Book Review], Marc Ouellette Jan 2004

Contesting Identities: Sports In American Film [Book Review], Marc Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Aaron Baker's Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film is an indictment of the key American myth that anyone can succeed through self-reliance. Baker finds that sports films, in general, comprise a site in which the myth is represented and reproduced. Baker's focus, though presented from multiple analytical perspectives, is singular in its purpose. That said, Baker does concentrate on what he considers the four core American sports: football, baseball, basketball and boxing. Approximately ninety movies, from the silent era to the present day, provide the content of the analysis, but several are exemplary and are cited repeatedly in the book's …


Spring 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm Jan 2004

Spring 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

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Reel Baseball: Essays And Interviews On The National Pastime, Hollywood And American Culture, Marc Ouellette Jan 2004

Reel Baseball: Essays And Interviews On The National Pastime, Hollywood And American Culture, Marc Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

The editors of Reel Baseball begin by acknowledging the roots of their collection, which explores the intersection between movies and baseball. Since 1989 the National Baseball Hall of Fame has hosted the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. Since 1997, McFarland has published all papers presented at the symposium. Reel Baseball, then, functions both as a document and as an artifact of the "integral" place of baseball movies in American culture. Indeed, the book not only includes essays presented at the symposium, it has two foreword sections: one written by Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey and the …


Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, Stephen Lowe Jan 2004

Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, Stephen Lowe

Faculty Scholarship – History

Although it is early to evaluate Woods’s historical significance, it is safe to conclude that he is by far the most successful minority athlete in golf and that he will be considered among the greatest competitive golfers of all time.


Howard "Butch" Wheeler, Stephen Lowe Jan 2004

Howard "Butch" Wheeler, Stephen Lowe

Faculty Scholarship – History

Instead of challenging the policies of the Professional Golfers Association’s tour, Wheeler seemed to remain content to shine as arguably the brightest star in black professional golf in the early post-World War II period.


John Matthew Shippen, Stephen Lowe Jan 2004

John Matthew Shippen, Stephen Lowe

Faculty Scholarship – History

Aside from being the first African American to compete in the U.S. Open, Shippen was also one of America’s earliest native-born club professionals and a pioneer for African Americans in the elite, white world of early twentieth century golf.


Robert Lee Elder, Stephen Lowe Jan 2004

Robert Lee Elder, Stephen Lowe

Faculty Scholarship – History

Lee Elder will always be remembered most for his 1975 Masters performance, but his entire career is a testament to the collapse of many racial barriers in professional tour golf in the late 1960s.


Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter Dec 2003

Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter

James B Carter

Comics, especially the works of Alan Moore, are examined as meeting the goals of modernist artists and writers due to their combination of image and text, succeedeing where neither form of expression could independently of one another.