Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

5/1/1977 - 7/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


The Question of Evaluation in Popular Culture

FAIN: FT-13342-77

John S. Lawrence
Morningside University (Sioux City, IA 51106-1717)

To do a systematic study of issues associated with the question of making value judgments about popular culture as a whole and about individual items within popular culture including: the definition of popular culture as distinct from high culture; questions of taste in pop culture; the historical problem of precedents, etc.