United States Culture

Cultural aspects of life in the United States.

Resources in this category:

American Folk
http://www.americanfolk.com/

Created by the graduate students at the UCLA Folklore and Mythology Program, American Folk is an e-journal designed for the scholar and general reader . This site has articles on individual folk artists, craftspeople, folk performers, and other folk and popular culture genres written by academically trained students and professionals in folklore and popular culture. It also features a bookstore which offers selections of writings made available through alt.bookstore.com and regularly highlites a site--The Raving Toy Maniac in this issue--as well asproviding links to online folklore and popular culture journals, academic folklore and popular culture programs, and various popular culture pages such as the Drive-In Theatre Page and The Potato Museum.

American Quarterly
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/

"American Quarterly applies wide-ranging, interdisciplinary perspectives to the study of American culture from its origins to the present. The journal publishes retrospectives, exhibition reviews, and book reviews and offers specialists and non-specialists alike a forum for addressing issues and themes of common intellectual concern that expand the understanding of American studies. Founded in 1949, American Quarterly is the official publication of the American Studies Association. "

Folklife Center News
gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/research/reading.rooms/folklif...

The Folklife Center News is a newsletter that publishes print and on-line articles concerning the programs and activities of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress as well as other pieces on traditional American folklife. The Gopher Menu has a search engine and back issues are archived from 1992 to the present.

Journal of American Studies
http://www.journals.cup.org/jid_AMS

Registration required. Tables of contents and abstracts of articles may be accessed free of charge by all users.

Redneck World
http://redneckworld.com/

Monthly magazine from Jacksonville, Florida. "Our goal is to reach both the metropolitan and rural marketplace comprised of people from all walks of life who enjoy good redneck/country humor, articles of interest to the outdoorsman, arts & crafts, local news items and trivia, country cooking and entertainment, a calendar of outdoor events in the area including fairs."

The Southern Register
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/register/

The Southern Register is the newsletter at The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. It covers Center news, happenings, and research. The current issue is usually on-line and back ones are as well though they are erratically archived.

Way South: A Journal of Southern Thought
http://waysouth.com/

"WaySouth is an on-line magazine of essays and commentary from a Southern perspective. WaySouth has writers who happen to be from the South. The places and the people they write about are, thus, usually Southern ones; however, the essays you will find here are provocative and innovative, not a magnolia-inclined collection of geographically-burdened cliches."