August 13, 1999
The 'Elvis Costello Problem' in Teaching Popular Culture
Popular culture has been a problem for as long as there has been something called "popular culture." Our youth have been corrupted, first by Socrates and now by Marilyn Manson, for three millennia and counting. Each new development in the popular-culture industry -- from Wordsworth's "sickly German romances" to today's sickly Harlequin romances, from the birth of television to the rise of Jerry Springer -- has proved
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