volume 57 number 2 (spring 1999)

Special Issue: Aesthetics and Popular Culture
Kathleen Higgins and Joel Rudinow, Guest Editors

Introduction
kathleen higgins and joel rudinow
109

Pursuing the Popular
timothy gould
119

High and Low Art, and High and Low Audiences
ted cohen
137

Horror and Humor
noël carroll
145

The X-Files and the Aesthetics and Politics of Postmodern Pop
douglas kellner
161

A Paramount Narrative: Exploring Space on the Starship Enterprise
sarah hardy and rebecca kukla
177

Rock versus Classical Music
stephen davies
193

Valuing and Evaluating Popular Music
theodore gracyk
205

Moving Truth: Affect and Authenticity in Country Musicals
richard shusterman
221

Postmodernist Jazz Theory: Afrocentrism, Old and New
lee b. brown
235

Of Bookworms and Busybees: Cultural Theory in the Age of Do-It-Yourselfing
kevin melchionne
247

Japanese Aesthetics of Packaging
yuriko saito
257

Artwork and Sportwork: Heideggerian Reflections
julian young
267