American Popular Culture Commons^™

Flamingo Vol. Ii N 2, Clyde Keeler, Charles L. Williams, Paul Verlaine, George Wayland Bennett, Dorothy Mccutcheon, Grace Williams, William G. Mather

Flamingo

Keeler, Clyde. "Dad's Day". Picture. 0.

Puppet. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Crescent. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Williams, Charles L. "As To Reading Biography". Prose. 5.

Verlaine, Paul. "Kyrie Eleison". Poem. 6.

Anonymous. "Mystery". Poem. 6.

R. "To You". Poem. 7.

Q. "The Passion Flower". Poem. 7.

Bennett, G.W. "November". Poem. 7.

R. "Storm". Poem. 7.

Anonymous. Untitled.Prose. 8.

Anonymous. "No Doubt!". Poem. 8.

Anonymous. Untitled. Picture. 8.

McCutcheon, Dorothy. "Ready-Made Reputations". Prose. 9.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 9.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 10.

Ubersax, Delmar. Untitled. Prose. 10.

Anonymous. "Statistics From The Football Centers". Prose. 10.

Anonymous. "Our Own Handbook". Prose. 11.

Anonymous. "Real …

Flamingo Vol. Ii N 1, R.D. Borington, Edward Schmitz, Kilburn Holt, Wentworth Mckee Potter, Clyde Keeler, Margaret Elizabeth Speicher, Grace Williams

Flamingo

Judge. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Siren. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Purple Cow. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Borington, R.D. "Deacon Frowzy's Son". Prose. 5.

G.W.B. "Cynic". Poem. 8.

Anonymous. "Les Hommes Mysterieux". Poem. 8.

K.K.H. "October". Poem. 8.

G.W.B. "Petition". Poem. 8.

Society Editor. "A Line-A-Day Book For Co-Eds". Prose. 9.

Schmitz, Edward. Untitled.Picture. 9.

W.D.P. Untitled. Prose.9.

Anonymous. "SSS". Prose. 9.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 9.

Anonymous. Untitled. prose. 10.

Potter, W.M. "Crooning of a Japanese Sandman".

Anonymous. "Geographical Influence". Prose. 10.

George. "Vest Pocket News". Prose. 11.

Anonymous. "Deed's Field-The First Kick-Off". Picture. 12.

Anonymous. "Denison's Hall of Fame: Kirtley F. Mather".

Anonymous. …

Flamingo Vol. I N 4, Heber Leslie Hicks, Chester Wellman, R.D. Bovington, E.E. Montgomery, Clyde Keeler, Wentworth Mckee Potter, Kilburn Holt, Louise Peterson

Flamingo

Orange Owl. "Off Again". Prose. 1.

Jester. "Alas!". Prose. 1.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Purple Cow. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Banter. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Burr. "Pride". Prose. 2.

Lampoon. Untitled. Prose. 2.

The Goblin. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Exchange. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Tiger. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Chaparral. "O, Dear!" Prose. 2.

Hicks, H. Leslie. Untitled. Picture. 3.

Anonymous. "Denison Customs We Don't Want Revived". Prose. 4.

Wellman, Chester. "Buffalo George". Prose. 5.

Bovington, R.D. "Avery The Anxious". Prose. 9.

D.U.K. "Spring In a Poetic Lie Sense". Prose. 10.

Anonymous. "Yeh?". Prose. 10.

Anonymous. "A Review". Prose. 10.

George. "Vest Pocket Views". 11 …

Flamingo Vol. I N 3, Ruth Nottingham, J.E.F. Wood, L.D. Leet, R.G. Lusk, W.M. Potter, Elsie D. Taylor, Clarke Olney, Dorothy K. Funk, Virginia Reel, Ernest C. Brelsford, Kilburn Holt, Ernest T. Owen

Flamingo

Voo-Doo. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Widow. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Tiger. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Purple Cow. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Life. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Yale Record. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Voo-Doo. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Sour Owl. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Puppet. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Sun Dial. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Nottingham, Ruth. "Teddy". Prose. 5.

Grogan. Untitled. Picture. 7.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 7.

Anonymous. "An Easy One". Prose. 7.

Anonymous. "How Terrible!" Prose. 7.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 7.

Anonymous. Untitled. Poem. 7.

F.H.G. Untitled. Picture. 7.

Wood, J.E.F. "When mother Went to College". Prose. 8.

E.D.T. "Chicago Corn …

Flamingo Vol. I N 2, Virginia Reel, Dorothy K. Funk, William Vogel, Phelan Steacock, Dorothy Breeze, Kilburn Holt, Alonzo Quinn, A.M. Mcneil, A.M. Shumaker, C.H. Dickerman

Flamingo

Exchange. "Skin Tight". Prose. 1.

Yale Record. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Orange Peel. Untitled. Prose. 1

Judge. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Jester. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Virginia Reel. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Punch Bowl. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Octopus. Untitled. Prose. 1.

Jester. "For The Backward Reader". Poem. 2.

Scalper. Untitled. Prose. 2.

Sun Dial. "Yea, Shakespeare". Prose. 2.

Sun Dial. "Refined". Prose. 2.

Squib. "Do Tell". Poem. 2.

Reel, Virginia. "A Hot One". Prose. 2.

Reel, Virginia. "Joking A Side". Prose. 2.

Widow. "Craughty". Poem. 2.

Widow. "Even His Hair Was Wavy". Poem. 2.

Funk, Dorothy K. Untitled. Picture. 3.

Anonymous. Untitled. Picture. 4. …

Flamingo Vol. I N 1, Kilburn Holt, C.H. Dickerman, Dorothy K. Funk, Osman C. Hooper, Walter L. Flory, Julia Hall Maccune, Fred S. Larue, Keeler Clyde

Flamingo

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 1.

DKF. Untitled. Picture. 3.

Holt, Kilburn. Untitled. Poem. 4.

Anonymous. "An Ancient Reporter". Prose. 5.

Anonymous. "The Neophyte's Prayer". Poem. 6.

Anonymous. "Gone-But Not Forgotten". Poem. 6.

R.D.B. Untitled. Picture. 6.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 6.

Anonymous. "Thrice Weekly". Prose. 7.

Anonymous. "Yus!". Prose. 7.

Anonymous. "'S Truth!". Prose. 8.

Anonymous. "Tick-Tock: A Calamietta". Prose. 8.

Holt, Kilburn. "Spring". Poem. 9.

Anonymous. Untitled. Poem. 9.

Anonymous. "Which best Applies". Poem. 9.

R.D.B. Untitled. Picture. 9.

Anonymous. "The Circular Hunt of 1823". Prose. 9.

Anonymous. "Sad-But True". Poem. 10.

Bovington. "Sad - But True". Cartoon. 10.

Anonymous. "Going …

The Fat Female Bodies Of Saturday Night Live: Uncovering The Normative Cultural Power Of A Countercultural Comedy Institution, Katharine Cacace

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Despite its reputation as one of the most countercultural and anti-establishment voices in mainstream television comedy, Saturday Night Live helps produce and reproduces cultural norms. Using weight and gender as a lens, this paper investigates Saturday Night Live’s methods of creating, imitating, and evoking the fat female body in order to limit female agency and police unruly female power. It contends that even the inclusion of nonnormative female bodies—fat bodies, queer bodies, and bodies of color—is merely a reiteration of the techniques of neoliberal multiculturalism for the television audience.

The Fabric Of Manhattan: Art And Industry In The Era Of A.T. Stewart, Patricia Wadsley

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Soft spoken, short of stature, his sleepy blue eyes gazing wistfully upon the world around him, the Irish émigré A. T. Stewart hardly looked like a titan of business. But by 1863, he’d built two architecturally significant department stores, he was one of the leading importers, manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers in this country, and he had begun to collect significant works of art, which today have pride of place in art museums around the world.

Like many wealthy nineteenth century New Yorkers, Stewart amassed his wealth through commerce. However, Stewart was not just a merchant. As a leader in apparel …

Do The Clothes Make The (Fat) Woman: The Good And Bad Of The Plus-Sized Clothing Industry, Crystal N. Money

Siegel Institute Ethics Research Scholars

This paper focuses on the relationship between the “women of size” population and the sector of the fashion industry that aims to serve them. This research intends to determine if the fashion industry truly understands the plus-size audience, or if they are simply forgetting an entire audience. It is important to identify how women of size see themselves personally, as a community, and reflected in mass media as that is where most fashion inspiration is derived. The study encompasses three research methods: interviews with self-identified plus-size women; an ethnographic approach to examining the clothes shopping options of a woman of …

Countdown, Howard Schaap

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

No abstract provided.

Sing A New Song To The City: Ambient Rhetoric And Urban Hymns, Adam J. Copeland

Faculty Publications

Hymns are a key component of how Christians express their faith. But many of these hymns do represent the rhythms and sensibilities of an older and largely agrarian world. Using the concept of “ambient rhetoric,” Adam Copeland suggests that it is time for other hymns that represent the ethos of daily life in an increasingly urbanized world, hymns that will speak to the realities of urban culture.

Rodcon, Flier, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

RodCon Documents

RodCon 2017 at the Rod Library

Saturday, April 1

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Rodcon, Program, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

RodCon Documents

Inside This Program:

--RodCon 2017 at the Rod Library, Saturday April 1, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Bombs, Bikinis, And Godzilla: America's Fear And Fascination Of The Atomic Bomb As Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962., Joshua Samuel Scott Cornett

Online Theses and Dissertations

This project aims to illustrate the change in emotions white, middle class Americans experienced towards the atomic bomb during the nineteen forties to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a weapon of fear. Each of these depictions are examined in their own separate chapter with various popular culture items examined as evidence. A wide range of popular media were inspected for this study, including films, magazines, comic books, cartoons, novels, and even video games.

Volume 8 Cover, Joanne Lamb

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

No abstract provided.

Walking And Wandering: Reconstructing Diasporic Subjectivity In T. C. Huo's Land Of Smiles And Lê Thi Diem Thúy’S The Gangster We Are All Looking For, Brian G. Chen

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

Diaspora has often been defined as the condition of dispersal and displacement in which its members express minimal connections with their host country and always look to return to their ancestral homelands. However, from the literary representations in T. C. Huo’s Land of Smiles and Lê Thi Diem Thúy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking For, it is clear that members of the Southeast Asian diaspora determine to set root in their host country and refuse to be treated as temporary guests. This determination is warranted by their desire to redefine the contentious idea of home beyond cultural ancestry …

The Parton Paradox: A History Of Race And Gender In The Career Of Dolly Parton, Lindsey L. Hammers

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

With a career that has spanned over five decades, country music artist Dolly Parton has continually redefined her image and her music to remain relevant. By incorporating the musical and lyrical stylings of disco and other popular music genres into her songs, Parton moved beyond music’s color line to increase her popularity as an artist. This thesis shows how Parton established a distinct career that catered to different audiences as she traversed the musical color line and repackaged what feminism looked like to country music fans during the Women’s Movement of the 1960s. Placing Parton’s actions in conversation with music’s …

A Long Strange Trip Through The Evolution Of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, And Historical Representation In The Grateful Dead Online Archive, Anna Richardson

Masters Theses

This study explores how a digital music archive tells the story and contributes to the public memory of cult bands. Utilizing the Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO) as the primary data source, the researcher obtained a population of 26,835 items and categorized them by the production method of fan or band, item type, era, and logo. Content analysis illustrated themes within the archive in relation to the fannish production and activity within the fandom of the Grateful Dead. The span of this specific fandom spreads across five decades and sheds light onto the ways in which the fandom surrounding cult …

Civil Rights Gone Wrong: Racial Nostalgia, Historical Memory, And The Boston Busing Crisis In Contemporary Children’S Literature, Lynnell L. Thomas

American Studies Faculty Publication Series

On May 14, 2014, three white Boston city councilors refused to vote to approve a resolution honoring the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. the Board of Education because, as one remarked, “I didn’t want to get into a debate regarding forced busing in Boston.” Against the recent national proliferation of celebrations of civil rights milestones and legislation, the controversy surrounding the fortieth anniversary of the court decision that mandated busing to desegregate Boston public schools speaks volumes about the historical memory of Boston’s civil rights movement. Two highly acclaimed contemporary works of children’s literature set during or inspired by Boston’s …

“Calypso”—Harry Belafonte (1956), Judith E. Smith

American Studies Faculty Publication Series

Harry Belafonte, the Harlem-born son of poor undocumented Jamaican immigrants, an untrained singer whose heart was set on becoming an actor, made music history with “Harry Belafonte: Calypso.” This record was the very first by a solo performer to sell a million copies, holding the top spot on “Billboard’s” pop album charts for an unprecedented 31 weeks (in addition, 58 weeks in the top ten, 99 weeks among the top 100). The higher-ups at RCA had doubted the commercial potential of a thematically unified recording of “island and Calypso songs,” but the “Calypso” record, released at the end of May …

The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

This work highlights specific lexical items that have become racialized in specific contextual applications and tests how these words are cognitively processed. This work presents the results of a visual world (Huettig et al 2011) eye-tracking study designed to determine the perception and application of racialized (Coates 2011) adjectives. To objectively select the racialized adjectives used, I developed a corpus comprised of popular media sources, designed specifically to suit my research question. I collected publications from digital media sources such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Fortune by scraping articles featuring specific search terms from their websites. This experiment seeks …

From Blues To The Ny Dolls: The Rolling Stones And Performance Of Authenticity, Mariia Spirina

Theses and Dissertations--Art and Visual Studies

Rock’n’roll has specific aesthetic — a set of invisible rules that each young rock musician accepts as a given. If one examines the history of rock’n’roll starting from 1950s, one will notice that there was a clear division in rock that separates the rock’n’roll of 1950s from rock of the second half of the 1960s and beyond—the rock that we know today. This thesis investigates how the visual aesthetic of rock’n’roll evolved from its origins in the 1950s blues tradition, how it was formed in the second half of the 1960s, and how it was modified in the first half …

From Weak Woman To New Woman And Back: The Long Struggle To Legitimize Women Athletes In The U.S., Rashaun Debord

Audre Lorde Prize

This paper details the complicated history of women in sport by looking at the changing popular image of women athletes from the late 19th century to today.

“No Other Agency”: Public Education (K-12) In Washington State During World War I And The Red Scare, 1917-1920, Jennifer Nicole Arleen Crooks

All Master's Theses

This paper examines the impact of World War I and the Red Scare upon public education in Washington State. Schools, expected to be the instruments of governmental policy, played an important role in the everyday lives of people on the American homefront. Although many helped in the war effort willingly, this wartime drive included both instilling nationalism and loyalty to American political and economic institutions as well as the assimilation of immigrants. While these forces existed well before World War I and the Red Scare, they strengthened and became more publicly acceptable in 1917-1920 as more people grew convinced that …

Shakespeare And Black Masculinity In Antebellum America: Slave Revolts And Construction Of Revolutionary Blackness, Elisabeth Mayer

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis explores how Shakespeare was used by Antebellum American writers to frame slave revolts as either criminal or revolutionary. By specifically addressing The Confessions of Nat Turner by Thomas R. Gray and "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass, this paper looks at the way invocations of Shakespeare framed depictions of black violence. At a moment when what it means to be American was questioned, American writers like Gray and Douglass turned to Shakespeare and the British roots of the English language in order to structure their respective arguments. In doing so, these texts illuminate how transatlantic identity still permeated …

"If You Want To Be The Man, You've Got To Beat The Man": Masculinity And The Rise Of Professional Wrestling In The 1990'S, Marc Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

This paper traces the relationship between the shifting representations of masculinity in professional wrestling programs of the 1990s and the contemporaneous shifts in conceptions of masculinity, examining the ways each of these shifts impacted the other. Most important among these was a growing sense that the biggest enemy in wrestling and in day-to-day life is one’s boss. Moreover, the corporate corruption theme continues to underscore the WWE’s on-screen and off-screen coverage, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century. Thus, the paper provides a template for considering a widely consumed popular cultural form in ways that challenge the determinism …

Popular Culture Is Killing Writing, Bronwyn T. Williams

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction. This collection is published in whole by the Digital Publishing Institute at WVU Libraries and in part by Inside Higher Ed.

Rotten Bananas, Hip Hop Heads, And The American Individual: Teaching Eddie Huang’S Memoir Fresh Off The Boat And Its Tropes Of Literacy, Wilson C. Chen

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

This essay focuses on Fresh Off the Boat as an eminently teachable coming-of-age story, provides critical contexts and directions for teaching this ideologically suggestive text, and sets forth the interpretive argument that the structures and themes of the memoir are fundamentally shaped by the literacy narrative at its core. As such, the text enters into conversation with other literacy narratives that have become so foundational in the teaching of multiethnic literature in the U.S. Moreover, Huang’s tropes of literacy draw from enduring, mythified Americanist discourses that are suggestive of a masculine individualism that, while not unique, is recognizable, instructive, and …

"It's Oil And Water": Race, Gender, Power, And Trauma In Vu Tran's Dragonfish, Quan-Manh Ha, Chase Greenfield

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

ABSTRACT: This article analyzes in-depth the interplay between race, gender, power, and trauma in Vu Tran’s debut novel, Dragonfish. We argue that Dragonfish focuses on the relationships, desires, and conflicts among its three protagonists—Robert, Suzy, and Sonny—to highlight how their postwar interactions complicate race, gender, trauma, and remembrance. The three protagonists engage in an intense socio-political struggle for dominance and control, which is riddled with irony, heart-wrenching pain, and misleading appearances. They experience hardship and loss, but they rely on each other for recovery from past and present trauma, and to advance their own varying personal priorities and agendas: …

(Re)Mediating The Spirit: Evangelical Christian Young Adult Media, Tamara Watkins

Theses and Dissertations

"We are in the world, but not of the world," a maxim frequently spoken in evangelical Christian culture, provides insight into how these individuals view their relationship with secular culture. They presume to share the same temporal plane with secular culture, but do not participate in it. In this dissertation, I explore whether the division between evangelical Christian culture and secular culture is as clear as this aphorism implies. To facilitate this investigation, I examine media Christian content creators created for an American evangelical Christian young adult audience in the early twenty-first century, specifically focusing on novel-length fiction, comics and …