{"id":866,"date":"2014-06-02T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=866"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:06:41","slug":"browne-ray-broadus-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"BROWNE, RAY BROADUS, 1922-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scholar of popular culture; University professor; editor. Born– January 15, 1922, Millport. Parents– Garfield and Anne Browne. Married–(1) Olwyn Carmen Orde (died 1964); (2)\u00a0Alice Pat Matthews, August 1, 1965. Children–Three. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1943; Columbia University, M.A., 1947; University of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1956. Military service:\u00a0 U.S. Army, 1943-46.\u00a0Instructor of English at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1947-50; University of Maryland, 1956-60; Purdue University, 1960-67; professor of popular culture, Bowling Green State University, 1967-1992.\u00a0Founder of the Center for Popular Culture and the Popular Writers Hall of Fame and Museum; editor of Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of American Culture, <\/em>\u00a0and Journal of Regional Cultures. <\/em>Contributed to many professional journals and anthologies. Founder\/member Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association, and other professional associations.\u00a0 Named a Distinguished University Professor at Bowling Green University, 1977, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 1992. Died October 22, 2009.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture\u00a0Association. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

The Alabama Folk Lyric; a Study in Origins and Media Disseminations. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Folk Beliefs and Practices from Alabama.\u00a0 University of California Press, 1958.<\/p>\n

Heroes and Humanities:\u00a0 Detective Fiction and Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green University, 1986.<\/p>\n

Lincoln Lore. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1975.<\/p>\n

The Many Tongues of Literacy.\u00a0 Bowling Green University, 1992.<\/p>\n

Melville’s Drive to Humanism. Lafayette, Ind.; Purdue University Press, 1971.<\/p>\n

A Night with the Hants and Other Alabama Folk Experiences. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1976.<\/p>\n

Objects of Special Devotion; Fetishism in Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

Popular Abstracts.\u00a0 Bowling Green University. 1978.<\/p>\n

Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green University, 1981.<\/p>\n

The Spirit of Australia; the Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Burke-Paine Controversy. New York; Harcourt, 1963.<\/p>\n

The Celtic Cross. Layfayette, Ind.; Purdue University Studies, 1964.<\/p>\n

Challenges In American Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1970.<\/p>\n

Contemporary Heroes and Heroines. Detroit; Gale Research, 1990.<\/p>\n

Continuities in Popular Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1993.<\/p>\n

Crises on Campus. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1970.<\/p>\n

Critical Approaches to American Literature. New York; Crowell, 1965.<\/p>\n

Dominant Symbols in Popular Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green University, 1987.<\/p>\n

Forbidden Fruits:\u00a0 Taboos and Tabooism in Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green University, 1978.<\/p>\n

Frontiers of American Culture. Purdue University Studies. 1968.<\/p>\n

Heroes of Popular Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green 1972.<\/p>\n

Icons of Popular Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1970 (2nd ed., 1972).<\/p>\n

The Indian Doctor: Frontier Pharmacology.\u00a0 Indiana Historical Society, 1964.<\/p>\n

Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven, “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” and Other Sketches. New Haven, Conn.; College and University Press, 1969.<\/p>\n

New Voices in American Studies. Lafayette, Ind.; Purdue University Studies, 1966.<\/p>\n

Popular Culture & Curricula. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1969.<\/p>\n

Popular Culture and the Expanding Consciousness.\u00a0 Wiley, 1973.<\/p>\n

The Popular Culture Explosion.\u00a0 William C. Brown, 1972.<\/p>\n

Themes and Directions in American Literature.\u00a0 Purdue University Studies, 1969.<\/p>\n

Teach In. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971.<\/p>\n

Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Defective Detective In Pulps. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Digging Into Popular Culture …. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Dimensions of Detective Fiction. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1976.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cultures of Celebrations.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1994.<\/p>\n

Detective as Historian:\u00a0 History and art in historical crime fiction.\u00a0 Bowling Green,\u00a0 2000.<\/p>\n

The Global Village: Dead or Alive?\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1999.<\/p>\n

The God Pumpers; Religion in The Electronic Age. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987.<\/p>\n

The Gothic World of Anne Rice.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1996.<\/p>\n

The Gothic World of Steve King; Landscape of Nightmares. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987.<\/p>\n

Guide to United States Popular Culture.\u00a0 Bowling Green State University, 2001.<\/p>\n

Laws of Our Fathers; Popular Culture and The U.S. Constitution. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

More Tales of The Defective Detective in Pulps. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Old Sleuth’s Freaky Female Detective; From The Dime Novel. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

Ordinary reactions to extraordinary events.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 2001.<\/p>\n

Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1999.<\/p>\n

Preview:\u00a0 Two thousand and one + : Popular culture studies in the future.\u00a0 Bowling Green 1999.<\/p>\n

Rejuvenating the Humanities.\u00a0 Bowling Green, 1992.<\/p>\n

Symbiosis; Popular Culture and Other Fields. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Papers of Ray B. Browne are held by the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green University, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography; Scholar of popular culture; University professor; editor. Born– January 15, 1922, Millport. Parents– Garfield and Anne Browne. Married–(1) Olwyn Carmen Orde (died 1964); (2)\u00a0Alice Pat Matthews, August 1, 1965. Children–Three. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1943; Columbia University, M.A., 1947; University of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1956. Military service:\u00a0 U.S. Army, 1943-46.\u00a0Instructor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}