Abstract: | COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK 11 edited by James A. Anderson (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1988, 648 pp.—$41.95, ISBN 0-8039-3138-7) TARNISHED GOLD: THE RECORD INDUSTRY REVISED by R. Serge Denisoff (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books/Rutgers, 1986, 487 pp.—$34.95/16.95, ISBN 0-88738-06809 cloth], 0-88738-618-0 paper]) INSIDE MTV by R. Serge Denisoff (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books/Rutgers, 1988, 373 pp.—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-173-1) THE END OF CONVERSATION: THE IMPACT OF MASS MEDIA ON MODERN SOCIETY by Franco Ferrarotti (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988, 192 pp.—$37.95, ISBN 0-313-26087-7) LAWS OF OUR FATHERS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION by Ray and Glenn Browne (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Culture Press, 1986—$24.95/12.95, no ISBN given) POPULAR CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES edited by Josie Campbell (Bowling Greene, Ohio: Popular Culture Press, 1986—$19.95/9.95, no ISBN given) THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE: TWENTIETH-CENTURY ETHNOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, AND ART by James Clifford (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988—$30.00/15.95, no ISBN given) THE SILENT MAJORITY: NONRESPONDENTS ON SAMPLE SURVEYS by John Goyder (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988—$39.00, no ISBN given) MEDIA IN SOCIETY: READINGS IN MASS COMMUNICATION edited by Caren J. Deming and Samuel L. Becker (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1988, 435 pp.—price not given, ISBN 0-673-15820-9) |