{"product_id":"curating-culture-how-twentieth-century-magazines-influenced-america-9781538138106","title":"Curating Culture: How Twentieth-Century Magazines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrint magazines were the original niche medium, creating communities long before the internet allowed audiences to find specialized content and interact with like-minded readers. Consumer magazines provided information, inspiration, empathy and advocacy for readers with specific goals and concerns. The targeted advertising business model of magazines was an early precursor of contemporary algorithms and metrics behind social media marketing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cultural niches 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century consumer magazines created and covered were powerful social influences on a wide variety of readers, from farmers to feminists, and covered everything from big ideas to political ideologies. With missions to serve specific readers and editors who were champions of their interests, even the most practical magazines were cultural influences well beyond their pages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a curated collection of case studies that collectively shed light on the cultural niches that American consumer magazines of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century covered and created. The chapters examine how cultural niches were cultivated, how they changed over time, and how they influenced broader cultural conversations. This sweeping view of 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century American magazines illuminates how this particular media form created, cultivated, and served specific communities, laying the groundwork for contemporary media forms to continue that role today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Eds are asking for brief essays--5000 each]\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The world of magazines in 20th century America\u003cbr\u003eSharon Bloyd-Peshkin and Charles Whitaker\u003cbr\u003eIn this introduction, Bloyd-Peshkin and Whitaker will provide foundational information about the consumer magazine landscape of the 20th century. This will include what magazines existed, the size and nature of their readership, the roles of editors, the emergence of some of the largest categories of magazines, the establishment of an advertising-supported business model, and other fundamental information about the consumer magazine landscape of 20th century America\/ This introduction will help to contextualize the chapters to come, which focus on specific niches and the titles within them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION 1: Ideas and Ideologies\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1.An Intellectual History of Intellectual Magazines\u003cbr\u003eKevin M. Lerner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication\/Journalism, Marist College, and editor of the Journal of Magazine Media\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Speaking Out: Leftist Magazines and Political Advocacy\u003cbr\u003eErika J. Pribanic-Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Texas, Arlington\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: “Little Magazines”: The Outsized Influence of Literary Magazines\u003cbr\u003ePablo Calvi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Journalism and Associate Director for Latin America for the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting, SUNY Stonybrook\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Design of the Times: The Emergence of an American Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003eSheila Webb, Ph.D, Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Western Washington University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSECTION 2: The Practical and the Personal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Tilling Fertile Ground: The Groundbreaking Role of Farming Magazines\u003cbr\u003eCatherine M. Staub, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Journalism, Drake University, and Chair of Magazine Journalism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Fanzines: Sci-Fi, Punk and Everything In Between\u003cbr\u003ePeggy Dillon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Salem State University\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: American Folk Music Magazines: Counter-Hegemonic Voices of Social Transformation\u003cbr\u003eKrystyna Henke, MA, journalist and author of audio CD “Nobel Voices for Disarmament, 1901-2000” (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: The Making of Masculinity: Men’s Magazines of the 20th Century\u003cbr\u003eKevin M. Lerner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication\/Journalism, Marist College, and editor of the Journal of Magazine Media\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Defining Domesticity: Women’s Magazines from Magnolia Journal to Martha Stewart\u003cbr\u003eDonna Harrington-Lueker, Ph.D., Professor of English and Communications, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Salve Regina University\u003cbr\u003eSECTION 3: The Familiar and the Future\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: The Private Goes Public: Parenting Magazines and the Redefine Family Roles\u003cbr\u003eSharon Bloyd-Peshkin, Associate Professor of Journalism, Communication Department, Columbia College Chicago\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: The Emergence of Ethnic Magazines\u003cbr\u003eThis chapter, not yet assigned, will look at how Black, Latino and Asian magazines both carved out and created a space for readers who didn’t see themselves in the pages of other publications.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Urban Renewal: City Magazines and the Reimagining of Urbanity (or City Magazines and the Definition of Cosmopolitan Life) \u003cbr\u003eNorma Green, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Columbia College Chicago\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Echoes into the Future: How the Lingua Franca of the Internet is Rooted in Magazines\u003cbr\u003eAileen Gallagher, Associate Professor of Magazine, News \u0026amp; Digital Journalism, S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041165115735,"sku":"9781538138106","price":62.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538138106.jpg?v=1750949194","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/curating-culture-how-twentieth-century-magazines-influenced-america-9781538138106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}