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Matula, Theodore. "Pow! to the People: The Make‐Up's Reorganization of Punk Rhetoric." Popular Music & Society 30.1 (2007): 19-38. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Nov. 2010. This articles explains how punk music hit a halt in the 90's and did not live up to critics expectations, the music industry had taken punk and learned how to capitalize from it. Punk had moved out of the garage and into mainstream music. It also summarizes punk's response to popularization by following a D.C area band.

Gosa, Travis. "Hip-Hop Politics, Activism, and the Future of Hip-Hop It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation by Asante, Molefi K. All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by McWhorter, John H. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk.." Journal of Popular Music Studies 21.2 (2009): 240-246. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article really deals with the politics of hip-hop. It deals with how rap is growing and how it's only going to get bigger as time goes on. This article is very important because there are a lot of poilitics involved in hip-hop. This article deals a lot with the culture of hip-hop as well. I thnk that this is a very good article.

Stewart, Jesse. "Real to Reel: Filmic Constructions of Hip Hop Cultures and Hip Hop Identities." Interdisciplinary Humanities 26.2 (2009): 49-67. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Stewart, Jesse. "Real to Reel: Filmic Constructions of Hip Hop Cultures and Hip Hop Identities." Interdisciplinary Humanities 26.2 (2009): 49-67. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article deals with a lot of issues that are very apparent in our culture. A lot of movies these days are centered around a lot of elements of hip-hop. There are many actors in Hollywood that got their start in hip-hop. This article explains how hip-hop has taken over music and film industry, which shows how popular it has become.

This article might be useful for those seeking to do a study of the evolution of punk. From the OhioLINK abstract: This article examines how older fans of punk rock articulate their continuing attachment to the music and its associated visual style.While sociological research on popular music audiences is well established, little attention has been paid to the articulation and management of fan practices of individuals beyond the age of 30. Based on ethnographic interviews conducted with older punk fans in East Kent, England, the article begins to redress this oversight in studies of popular music audiences.This involves an assessment of both the way in which articulations of punk style transgress with age from the visual to the biographical and how older punks develop particular discursive practices as a means of legitimating their place within a scene dominated by younger punk fans.

Van Ham, Lane. "Reading Early Punk as Secularized Sacred Clowning." Journal of Popular Culture 42.2 (2009): 318-338. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. This article desribes early mass media and their relationships to punks rock bands in the 1970's. It also explains the sterotypes of "Scared Clowns" and "Holy Fools". Both sterotypes have negative meanings, often refering to someone as a scared clown or holy fool would mean that they are stupid or shameful.

Paull, Emily J., and Wendy L. Morris. "Stereotyping and Nonconformity:The Effects of Punk Music on Social Behavior." Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research 13.4 (2008): 173-183. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. At McDaniel College they tested 150 studets to see if punk music made the students "nonconformist". Each student was given punk, popular, or no music to listen to. The punk group exibited more conformity than the other groups, opposite to what we would expect. A second study was done to see whom students associated with punk music.

This article talks generalizes the music popular in the 1960s. The article references artists that made an impact on American music during a time of civil strife including: The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin. The author notes that the Beatles defied the concept of what rock and roll should have been. There wasn't much to say about the Beatles but that they had a diverse sound that not many have heard before.

Critchell, Samantha. "Seventies look in spring fashion mirrors modern tastes and times." DailyNews Los Angeles. Los Angeles Newspaper Group. 24 Oct. 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. In this article, written by Samantha Critchell, she compares the styles of the nineteen-seventies to today. In popular fashion shows, like ones in Milan, styles of the seventies are making a comeback. Some seventies fashion consists of high-wasted skirts, flowing shirts, long dresses, trousers, and shirtdresses. The colors and patterns are distinct, which makes this decade of fashion really stand out. This article is helpful in comparing and relating seventies fashion to today's fashion.

Eggener, Keith L. "'An Amusing Lack of Logic': Surrealism and Popular Entertainment." American Art. 7.4 (1993): 30-45. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. This article talks about how Surrealism impacted American Art starting in the 1930s. Socialites across America were introduced to this movement by going to Surrealist Costume Balls and flipping through fashion magazines that contained this new form of art. Salvador Dali's "Dream of Venus" captured the attention of many and soon people were craving a desire to dream like him. Many do not realize that this movement was first accessible to and received by Americans. Surrealism actually evolved from trendsetters in fashion and entertainment within America and Europe. "The earliest examples of genuine Surrealist art to be seen in America were probably those included in Katherine Dreier's Sociata Anonyme exhibition of modern European and American art." Most information that Americans had about Surrealism came from printed articles in newspapers or magazines. Many surrealist authors related their work to the illusionary branch of Salvador Dali's work. He was by far the most influential person in this movement. Surrealism was not meant to be a type of revolution, but new insight or beginning for art.

Martin, Marilyn. "Art Deco Architecture in South Africa." The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 20 (1994): 8-37. JSTOR. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis source focuses on a location that is not usually associated with Art Deco: South Africa. There is mention notonly of the designers of the art, but also of the architects who were actually building the structures. Quotes from architechs about the buidings as well as pictures are included. This article does a great job of using descriptions and imagery to describe the buildings. This article was very interesting because it is not common knowledge that Art Deco was popular in South Africa and it was interesting to learn about the history of the movement there.

Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe movement in the late 1960's to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty first century. This collection of essays provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary look at British heavy metal. It provides a critical analysis of the politcs and ideology behind the lyrics images and performances. The wide range of approaches should provide readers from various disciplines with new and original ideas about the study of this phenomenom of popular culture

The book on surrealism shows an organized look at some of the most popular paintings from the period. these are made easy to understand by the author who provides background infomation on each painting. these paintings are also presented in alphebitical order and occur in a timeline so you can see when they were painted. there is a breif introduction on the history of the movement in the beginning of the book. i think this is a good source because it describes what the symbolism of these famous paintings mean.

Shanes, Eric. "The Pop Art Tradition: Responding to Mass Culture." Parkstone Press International (2006): Ohiolink. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Shanes traces the roots of popular mass culture in the late 18th century when the industrial and political revolutions industrialized the Western World. Pop Art is said to have originated from Surrealism in Britain when Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton began exploring comic books, advertising, and folk culture. Artist, Claes Oldenberg, began works of art that connected to "store exhibitions," which filled galleries with common American objects. This emphasized and worshiped consumer goods.

Martindale, Colin, and Alan West. "Creative trends in the content of Beatles lyrics." Popular Music and Society 20.4 (1996): 103. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Inglis, Ian. "'The Beatles are coming!' Conjecture and conviction in the myth of Kennedy, America, and the Beatles." Popular music and society 24.2 (2000): 93. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article is quotes many sources on the arrival of the Beatles to America in 1964, a year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The article suggests that the Beatles were a "breath of fresh air" to help move the country out of their state of mourning. The article also talks about the factors that contributed to the groups' success in the 1960s. The band's music appealed to a wide variety of people. Their songs blended together rock and roll, pop, soul, and blues music. The structure of the sound was very different than American pop during that time period. There was not just a lead singer with a background band; all of the Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison contributed to each chart-topping single.

Joanna Demers. Sampling the 1970s in Hip-Hop. Popular Music, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 41-56. JSTOR. Web. 16 Nov. 2010 This article examines the beginning of Hip Hop. It shows where its influences came from and how they translated into what hip hop is today. It shows the founding fathers and the hoops they had to jump through in order to gain respect in the music industry.

Mitchell, Tony. Global Noise: Rap and Hip-hop outside the USA. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2001. Print.T his book describes how rap has grown in other countries other than the U.S. Most people don't think of rap as being something that is international, but it has grown to almost all of Europe and is even getting started in Asia. Rap is becoming the most popular type of music in the whole world and reading this book confirms that. Rap is huge and it's only going to get bigger as time moves on because soon the generation that listens to rap will become older and take up more of the population.

Kato, M. T. From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture. Albany: State University of New York, 2007. Print. This book describes how much pop culture has changed over the years. In the old days, action heros were cowboys and policemen, whereas now, they are thugs with guns and muscle that look scary and talk tough. Culture has just changed so much and this book does an excellent job of pointing that out

Mundy, Jennifer. "SURREALISM AND PAINTING: DESCRIBING THE IMAGINARY." Art History 10.4 (1987): 492. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Mundy describes some popular features of surrealist painting. She talks in detail about how the painters of the period were influnced and how the painted their works. Breton's manifesto is also described in her writing. The article is long, detailed, and descriptive. It is a good source to use because it discusses what it means to be surreal in surrealist wirting and paintings.

Uniquely situated at the heart of African-American youth culture, hip-hop is about music, style and voice. In many ways hip-hop is also about political action. Any discussion of hip-hop culture and rap music lends itself to examinations of rap as a means of protest among inner-city African-American youth. But the resistive benefits of rap music are not limited to its African-American listeners as can be seen by its widespread popularity among youth of all different races, classes and nationalities. As the cultural and political voice of an entire generation of youth, hip-hop has become a means of political action for its artists and fans. In addition to its prominent resistive role, political action in the hip-hop community includes political deliberation and direct uses of hip-hop to increase political awareness and to organize collaborative action. (From the OhioLINK abstract.)