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SURFIN' GUITARS: INSTRUMENTAL SURF BANDS OF THE SIXTIES. 2nd ed. (Rock and Roll Remembrances Series No. 13). Robert J. Dalley. Ann Arbor, MI: Popular Culture, Ink, 1996, 384 pp., illustrated, $55.00, ISBN 1-56075-042-1. Reviewed by Sandra Ballasch.
HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS INDEX: A DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO INFORMATION ON MORE THAN 3,000 HOLIDAYS. Edited by Helene Henderson and Barry Puckett. Detroit: Omnigraphics,Inc., 1995, 782 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-7808-0012-5. Reviewed by Amy A. Begg.
YESTERDAY'S STORIES: POPULAR WOMEN'S NOVELS OF THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES. Patricia Raub. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, 131 pp., $49.95. Reviewed by Candace R. Benefiel.
THE VAMPIRE BOOK: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UN-DEAD. J. Gordon Melton. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994, 852 pp., $39.95. Reviewed by Candace R. Benefiel.
THE UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOLUME 3: HIGH STRANGENESS: UFOs FROM 1960 THROUGH 1979. Jerome Clark. Detroit: Omnigraphics,Inc., 1996, 777 pp., $95.00, ISBN 1-55888-742-3. Reviewed by Candace R. Benefiel.
HISTORY BY HOLLYWOOD: THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE AMERICAN PAST. Robert Brent Toplin. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996, 267 pp., $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper, ISBN 0-252-02073-1 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-06536-0 (paper). Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
PAST IMPERFECT: HISTORY ACCORDING TO THE MOVIES. Edited by Mark C. Carnes. New York: Henry Holt, 1995, 304 pp., illustrated, $30.00, ISBN 0-8050-3759-4. Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO JAZZ. 2nd ed. Edited by Michael Erlewine et al. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1996, 913 pp., $24.95 paper, ISBN 0-87930-407-3. Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO THE BLUES: THE EXPERTS' GUIDE TO THE BEST BLUES RECORDINGS. Edited by Michael Erlewine et al. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1996, 424 pp., $17.95 paper, ISBN 0-87930-424-3. Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FOLK ART: A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE. Chuck Rosenak and Jan Rosenak. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996, 320 pp., illustrated, $29.95 paper, ISBN 1-55859-897-9. Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
PICTURED IN MY MIND: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SELF-TAUGHT ART. Edited by Gail Andrews Trechsel. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995, (Distributed by University Press of Mississippi), 247 pp., illustrated, $55.00 cloth, $30.00 paper, ISBN 0-87805-877-X (cloth), ISBN 0-87805-878-8 (paper). Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
THE ARTIST OUTSIDER: CREATIVITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF CULTURE. Edited by Michael D. Hall and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, 350 pp., illustrated, $60.00 hardbound, $29.95 paper, ISBN 1-56098-334-5 (hardbound), ISBN 1-56098-335-3 (paper). Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
ALTERNATIVE REALITIES: THE PARANORMAL, THE MYSTIC AND THE TRANSCENDENT IN HUMAN EXPERIENCE. Leonard George. New York: Facts on File, 1995, 360 pp., $35.00 hardbound, $18.95 paper, ISBN 0-8160-2828-1 (hardbound), ISBN 0-8160-3213-0 (paper). Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
ATLAS OF THE MYSTERIOUS IN NORTH AMERICA. Rosemary Ellen Guiley. New York: Facts on File, 1995, 178 pp., illustrated, $35.00 hardbound, $17.95 paper, ISBN 0-8160-2876-1 (hardbound), ISBN 0-8160-2882-6 (paper). Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
DIVINING THE FUTURE: PROGNOSTICATION FROM ASTROLOGY TO ZOOMANCY. Eva Shaw. New York: Facts on File, 1995, 293 pp., illustrated, $35.00 hardbound, ISBN 0-8160-2937-7. Reviewed by Craig Bunch.
GRAPHIC NOVELS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO BOOK-LENGTH COMICS. D. Aviva Rothschild. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995, 245 pp., $30.00, ISBN 1-56308-086-9. Reviewed by Doug Highsmith.
JACK THE RIPPER: A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. Fully revised and expanded edition. Alexander Kelly, with David Sharp. London: Association of Assistant Librarians, 1995, 186 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0-900092-90-4. Reviewed by Doug Highsmith.
JACK THE RIPPER: A REFERENCE GUIDE. Scott Palmer. Lanham, MA: Scarecrow Press, 1995, 145 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-8108-2996-7. Reviewed by Doug Highsmith.
RE-VIEWING BRITISH CINEMA, 1900-1992: ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS. Edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 288 pp., $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper, ISBN 0791418618 (cloth), ISBN 0791418626 (paper). Reviewed by Doug Highsmith.
THE ILLUSTRATED DISCOGRAPHY OF SURF MUSIC, 1961-1965. 3rd. ed. (Rock & Roll Reference Series). John Blair. Foreword by Dick Dale. Ann Arbor, MI: Popular Culture, Ink, 1995, 286 pp., illustrated, $45.00, ISBN 1-56075-040-5. Reviewed by David Sanjek.
LISSAUER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA 1888 TO THE PRESENT. Three volumes. Researched and written by Robert Lissauer. New York: Facts on File, 1996, 1530 pp., $185.00, ISBN 0-8160-3238-6 (set). Reviewed by David Sanjek.
A GUIDE TO POPULAR MUSIC REFERENCE BOOKS (Music Reference Collection, No. 47). Gary Haggerty. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995, 232 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-313-29661-8. Reviewed by David Sanjek.
ALL MUSIC GUIDE. 2nd ed. Edited by Michael Erlewine. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1994, 1400 pp., $24.95 paper, ISBN 0-87930-331-X. Reviewed by David Sanjek.
HUNTERS & GATHERERS. Geoff Nicholson. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994, 215 pp., $21.95, ISBN 0-87951-559-7. Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
AMERICA'S COLLECTIBLE COOKBOOKS: THE HISTORY, THE POLITICS, THE RECIPES. Mary Anna DuSablon. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994, 214 pp., $15.95 paper, $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8214-10776-6 (paper), 0-8214-1057-1 (cloth). Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: TWENTY REMARKABLE COLLECTORS IN PURSUIT OF THEIR DREAMS. Mitch Tuchman; photographs by Peter Brenner. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994, 144 pp., 125 full-color photographs, $19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8118-0360-0. Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
COLLECTING IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY. Russell W. Belk. New York: Routledge, 1995, 198 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-415-10534-X. Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
INTERPRETING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS. Edited by Susan M. Pearce. New York: Routledge, 1994, 343 pp., $79.95, ISBN 0-415-11288-5. Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
ON COLLECTING: AN INVESTIGATION INTO COLLECTING IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION. Susan M. Pearce. New York: Routledge, 1995, 440 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-415-07560-2. Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
THE CULTURES OF COLLECTING. Edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, 312 pp., illustrated, $39.95 cloth, $18.95 paper, ISBN 0-674-17992-7 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-17993-5 (paper). Reviewed by Norman D. Stevens.
PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TEAM HISTORIES. Four volumes (Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey). Edited by Michael L. Le-Blanc. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994, $129.95, individual volumes $39.95. Reviewed by Suzanne Wise.
ENCYCLOPEDIA SHERLOCKIANA: THE COMPLETE A-TO-Z GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF THE GREAT DETECTIVE. Matthew E. Bunson. Foreword by John Bennett Shaw. New York: Mac-millan, 1994, 326 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-671-79826-X. Reviewed by Suzanne Wise.
SHERLOCK HOLMES SCREEN AND SOUND GUIDE. Gordon E. Kelley. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994, 316 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-8108-2859-6. Reviewed by Suzanne Wise.
SANDOW THE MAGNIFICENT: EUGEN SANDOW AND THE BEGINNINGS OF BODYBUILDING. David L. Chapman. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 229 pp., $26.95, ISBN 0-252-02033-2. Reviewed by Suzanne Wise.
BIG-TIME FOOTBALL AT HARVARD, 1905: THE DIARY OF COACH BILL REID. Edited by Ronald A. Smith. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 354 pp., $27.50. Reviewed by Suzanne Wise.
WOMEN IN BASEBALL: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY. Gai Ingham Berlage. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 208 pp., $22.50. Reviewed by Suzanne Wise.