Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization (Blackwell Manifestos)
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ISBN13: 9780631234609
Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization (Blackwell Manifestos)
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Inventing Popular Culture is a lively and accessible history of the idea of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field. Written from the critical perspective of cultural studies, this book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century 'discovery' of folk culture to contemporary accounts
of the cultural impact of globalization. Inventing Popular Culture argues that the idea of popular culture is an invention of intellectuals. This book does not present an analysis of particular texts and activities which have been, or could be defined as, popular culture; instead it explores the changing intellectual ways of constructing texts and activities as popular culture and how these intellectual discourses articulate questions of culture and power.Examining the relationship between the concept of popular culture and key issues in cultural analyses such as hegemony, postmodernism, identity, questions of value, consumerism, and everyday life, Inventing Popular Culture presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times.
Contents:
Preface
1
Popular Culture as Folk Culture: Nature and Nationalism
Pastoral Life as Primitive Culture
Music Hall and the Masses
Imagining the Past to Make the Present
Notes
2
Popular Culture as Mass Culture: Culture Against Anarchy
The Culture of Hyperdemocracy
The Marxist Masses
Ways of Seeing Other People as Masses
Notes
3
Popular Culture as the 'Other' of High Culture: The Making of High Culture
The Modernist Revolution
The Politics of Cultural Exclusion
Culture and Class
Notes
4
Popular as an Arena of Hegemony: Hegemony: From Marxism to Cultural Studies
Wandering from the Path of Righteousness
Side Saddle on the Golden Calf
An Inclusive Media and Cultural Studies
Notes
5
Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture: The New Sensibility
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: The Postmodern Condition
Back to the Future: Opera Postmodern
Notes
6
Popular Culture as the 'Roots' and 'Routes' of Cultural Identities: Postmodern Identities
The Roots of Cultural Identities
The Routes of Cultural Identities
Mixing Memory and Desire: Dusty Springfield and 'The Land of Love'
Coda: Performing Identities
Notes
7
Popular Culture as Popular Art: Cultural Power
When Gravity Fails: An Aesthetics of Popular Culture? Beyond Aesthetic Essentialism
Notes
8
Popular Culture as Global Culture: Globalisation
Trading Commodities in the American Global Village
The 'Local' as the New Folk Culture
Notes
References
Index.
Brief Description:
Presents the history of the idea of popular culture. This book traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century 'discovery' of folk culture to accounts of the cultural impact of globalization. It argues that the idea of popular culture is an invention of intellectuals.
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