Ray B. Browne (1922-2009)

BOWLING GREEN, OHIO - Ha passato tutta la sua vita a studiare qualsiasi cosa gli passasse davanti agli occhi e quando diciamo qualsiasi cosa, intendiamo qualsiasi cosa. Era così orgoglioso di aver ideato la definizione di cultura popolare che l'ha schiaffata nel titolo di ogni suo testo: Popular Culture: Notes Toward a Definition, Popular Culture and the Expanding Consciousness, Heroes of Popular Culture, Icons of Popular Culture, Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture, Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishism in Popular Culture, Dominant Symbols in Popular Culture, Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past & the Past in the Present and Future, Popular Culture Studies Across the Curriculum, Profiles of Popular Culture: A Reader, Mission Underway: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967-2001, The Guide to United States Popular Culture, la lista va avanti all'infinito. Robert Thompson, un professore suo collega, che ha avuto l'onore di lavorare con lui, alla notizia ha dichiarato: He was really going against the grain. He seemed to be interested in anything. You could drop a gum wrapper in front of him and he would see a text to be studied. Quest'uomo era il ritratto della parola dedizione. link