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Good News for Pop Culture Buffs

Over the last hundred years, American movies, television shows, detective novels, fast-food chains, and musical styles have defined modern life. Yet as we approach the third millennium, thoughtful commentary about the impact of mass culture has hit a new low. Magazines that once published solid pop commentary now offer quick glosses on cultural events that provide little insight to the well-informed observer. Just as the pop catalogue is exploding across 500 cable channels and the mushrooming Internet, pop criticism has faded from the mainstream media.

millennium pop Is Here!

Writer-driven and idea-rich, millennium pop helps industry insiders, discerning readers, and emerging artists of the 21st century track the rapid changes overtaking our shared cultural dream life. It serves as a guide to the technological wonders that will reshape the future, provide sophisticated commentary about both old and new pop art, and help distinguish the revolutionary from the merely recycled.

If you agree that software has more impact on how we think and work and play than hardware,and believe movies, music, and television deserve more serious attention than they’re getting, check out millennium pop.

millennium pop was launched in August, 1994, and has since developed into a Web-only publication. See for yourself why Wired, Pulse!, the Boston Phoenix and Globe, and Harper’s magazine have all raved about millennium pop for its thoughtful approach to the popular issues of our day.

millennium pop archive:

* Volume I, Issue 1, Summer 1994

Chuck Eddy on Rock Sellouts
Sara Laschever on Eddie Murphy
John Domini on Dylan Dog
Charles Taylor on The X-Files
Milo Miles on Johnny Cash
Robin Dougherty on Prime Suspect

* Volume I, Issue 2, Fall 1994

Joyce Millman on Raising Kids to Rock
Stephanie Zacharek on Chow Yun-Fat
Jimmy Guterman on Nixon’s CD-ROM
Robin Dougherty on CNN’s Lynne Russell
Howard Hampton on Art Tatum

* Volume II, Issue 1, Winter 1995

Leslie Savan on Spirituality in Advertising
Steve Vineberg on Law & Order
Tim Riley on The Beatles Live at the BBC
Robin Dougherty on Movies and Motherhood
Charles Taylor on The Winshaw Legacy
Stephanie Zacharek on Courtney Love and Hole

* Volume II, Issue 2, Spring 1995

Dan Bischoff on The Internet’s Effect on News
Steve Vineberg on Orson Welles’ Othello
Karen Steen on Female Cartoon Action Heroes
John Domini on Christian Television
Sarah Wright on Absolutely Fabulous
Milo Miles on the “Death” of World Beat
Stephanie Zacharek on Wayne Kramer and Jon Spencer
Sara Laschever on Anne Frank

* Volume II, Issue 3, September 1995

Charles Taylor on Richard Pryor
Steve Vineberg on Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Charles Taylor on Michael Jackson’s HIStory
Tim Riley on the PBS Rock & Roll series

* Volume II, Issue 4, October 1995

Sara Laschever on Steven Bochco’s Murder One and NYPD Blue
Milo Miles on Disney Animation
Stephanie Zacharek on Alex Chilton’s A Man Called Destruction

Editor Tim Riley is the author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf 1988), Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf, 1992), and Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion, 1992), and is featured on NPR, Public Radio International, in the The Washington Post and Boston Magazine. millennium pop debuted at the top of the Village Voice Literary Supplement’s Lit Hit List of new publications for 1994, has been excerpted in Harper’s (December 1994), and featured in Wired and Pulse! magazines.

Executive Editor Sara Laschever is the co-author of Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Princeton, 2003), and has critiqued pop culture for the New York Review of Books, the Village Voice, and the New York Times.

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