xix, 225 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
Contents
Foreword / Tom Wolfe -- Preface / Peter Rollins -- Millennium Merrymaking -- What to Make of the Millennium / Mary Lee McLaughlin -- Popular Culture: The Beggar at the Gate of Our Public Schools / Katherine Lynde -- The New Gold Rush -- Folk/Fake/Pop -- Sacred Symbols -- The Man and the Mouse -- Carnivals - Old and New -- The Celebrity Cult -- From Humbuggery to Hype -- Surprise Attacks -- The Electric Shocker -- Style -- Black Popular Culture -- The Most Popular War -- Postmodern Pop -- Faith Takes a New Face -- The Most Popular Myth -- Global Village - Utopia Revisited?