Research Guides: Popular Culture: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and more

General Encyclopedias

When researching a popular culture topic, go beyond Wikipedia! (though it can be a good place to start)

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2nd ed. by Gale Editor (Editor)
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Covers topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, and art and performance (including theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance).

Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America by Andrew F. Smith
Publication Date: 2004
770 entries offer the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd ed.
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Publication Date: 2013
Over 1,400 entries including 300 new entries.