Fast Food, Stock Cars, & Rock-n-Roll: Place and Space in American Pop Culture
A fascinating portrait of American landscape and culture. Blue jeans, stock car racing, country music, and hamburgers all converge in this wonderful book, as the reader travels on highways, streets, and backroads never before visited. (William Ferris)Some of the best geographically-oriented essays related to food, music, religion, clothing, sports, politics, and architecture published over the past twenty years can be found inFast Food, Stock Cars, and Rock-n-Roll. (Kip Lornell)The reader will make an excellent companion to standard cultural geography texts.  Examining geographic aspects of popular culture is an excellent way to engage students by focusing directly on topics with which they can relate and understand. (Thomas L. Bell)At last we have a collection of readings, bound together with a sensitive and intelligent editorial narrative, that deals with the subject of the geography of popular culture. (Terry G. Jordan)I recommend this to all who seek new insights into popular culture. (Journal Of Popular Culture)Dramatically expands the scope of George Carney's fascinating vision . . . No student or scholar of contemporary life should overlook this thoughtful compilation. (Cooper, B Lee)College students seem easily bored if they concentrate on the same topic for too long. In this volume, there is little chance for such boredom to occur. There is something for everyone. Carney's edited reader, it is hoped, will pique the interest and wet the appetite of college-aged students to explore other dimensions of American popular culture. (Journal Of Cultural Geography)