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History Harpies: Pop Culture, Past and Present

History Harpies: Pop Culture, Past and Present

Von: Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff and Christine Caldwell Ames
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Two professors who love pop culture discuss why everything old (in movies, tv, music, and fashion) is new again.

PhDs in History, advanced training in sass.

Don’t forget to read your footnotes!

Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff and Christine Caldwell Ames
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    In the first of two Hometown episodes, Lauren introduces Christine to the culinary magic known as the pizza steak as they visit Philadelphia, running up the Rocky Steps and lifting their arms in victory.

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    In this episode, nothing gets between Lauren, Christine, and their Calvins, as they look back at the career of Gen-X icon Brooke Shields.

    Book recommendations:

    E.J. Bellocq, Storyville Portraits: Photographs From the New Orleans Red Light District, circa 1912

    https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2678_300299020.pdf

    Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture

    https://www.pennpress.org/9780812221671/hope-in-a-jar/
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    1 Std. und 21 Min.
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    Lauren and Christine get out the sunscreen and head to the beach, asking why films and tv often associate this setting with booze, hooking up, and regrets. And they resolve never to go to Rio with Michael Caine.

    RIP Connie Francis.

    Book recommendations:

    Emma Rosenblum, Bad Summer People

    E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
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