Popular culture is as debated as it is pervasive. It is pervasive in that thesymbolic worlds in which we live and out of which we construct sense are, in many different ways, understood as and within popular culture. It is debated in that it has often been polarized as a negative or positive counterpart to other dimensions of cultural activity. Volume One establishes the historical dimension necessary for the study of popular culture, showing how popular culturehas developed over the past two centuries in the West, and how it has operated as a site of aesthetic debate and contestation as well as of communal pleasure and social interaction. The second and third volumes are devoted to the different theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches to popular culture. These have mainly developed since the late-nineteenth century, though pioneering discussion from this time has recently become sidelined. Along with some examples of such early discussion, the volumes feature contributions from the 'culture and civilization' tradition, the Frankfurt school, Chicago sociology, western Marxism, early cultural studies (rejecting the term 'culturalism'), structuralist and poststructuralist approaches, folkloristics, feminism and men'sstudies, postmodernism and postcolonial studies. The final volume concentrates on the questions and issues involved in the aesthetics and ethics of popularculture and their relation to the quality of public life. Volume Four specifically includes articles that deal with issues in popular culture studies that remain ongoing and in dynamic movement, or are in various ways contentious andunresolved. INDICE: VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR CULTURE / Popular Culture in History / Scott Cutler Shershow "Punch and Judy" and Cultural Appropriation / Marius Kwint The Legitimization of the Circus in Late Georgian England / Anna Clark Queen Caroline and the Sexual Politics of Popular Culture in London, 1820 / Douglas Reid The Decline of Saint Monday / Edward Jacobs Bloods in the Street: London street culture, "industrial literacy", and the emergenceof mass culture in Victorian England / Gareth Stedman Jones Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870-1900: Notes on the remaking ofa working class / Andrew Crowhurst Empire Theatres and the Empire: The popular geographical imagination in the age of empire / Donna Varga Teddy's Bear andthe Sociocultural Transfiguration of Savage Beasts into Innocent Children, 1890-1920 / History in Popular Culture / Jerome de Groot Empathy and Enfranchisement: Popular histories / Edward Countryman John Ford's Drums along the Mohawk: The making of an American myth / Ella Shohat Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema / Gary Weissman A Fantasy of Witnessing / Sally J. Morgan The Ghost in the Luggage: Wallace and Braveheart: Post-colonial "pioneer" identities / John Corner Archive Aesthetics and the Historical Imaginary: Wisconsin death trip / Ron Eyerman and Orvar Löfgren Romancing the Road: Road movies and images of mobility / VOLUME TWO: FROM MASS CULTURE CRITIQUE TO POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES / Popular Culture - Early Considerations / Thomas Wright On a Possible Popular Culture / Derek Kahn What is Culture? / Popular Culture and Mass Culture - Control and Consent / Dwight Macdonald A Theory of Mass Culture / D.W. Brogan The Problem of High Culture and Mass Culture / Edward Shils Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections on the criticism of mass culture / Paul Filmer The Literary Imagination and the Explanation of Socio-Cultural Change in Modern Britain / Theodor Adorno Culture Industry Reconsidered/ Mark Gottdiener Hegemony and Mass Culture / T.J. Jackson Lears The Concept of Cultural Hegemony / Eugene Lunn Beyond "Mass Culture" / Angela Devas Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine: A view from the 4.50 from Paddington / Popular Culture Studies - Outlines and Overviews / Tony Bennett Popular Culture: A "teaching object" / Stuart Hall Notes on Deconstructing "The Popular" / Jean Franco What's in a Name? Popular culture theories and their limitations / Richard Johnson What is Cultural Studies Anyway? / Graham Murdock Cultural Studies at the Crossroads / Simon During Professing the Popular / Michael Pickering Social Power and Symbolic Sites: In the tracks of cultural studies / Michael Pickering Cultural Studies and the Challenge to English / Scott Cutler Shershow New Life: Cultural studies and the problem of the "popular" / Angela McRobbie Post-Feminism and Popular Culture / Keith Negus and Michael Pickering Creativity, Communication and Musical Experience / Lynn Schofield Clark When the University Went "Pop": Exploring cultural studies, sociology of culture, and the rising interest in the study of popular culture / VOLUME THREE: CULTURAL FORMATIONS AND SOCIAL RELATIONS / Sociological Approaches / Thelma McCormack Folk Culture and the Mass Media / Paul M. Hirsch Processing Fads and Fashions: An organizational-set analysis of cultural industry systems / Paul DiMaggio Market Structure, the Creative Process, and Popular Culture: Toward an organizational reinterpretation of mass culture theory / Steve Baron The Study of Culture: Cultural studies and British sociology compared / Graham McCann Biographical Boundaries: Sociology and Marilyn Monroe / David Tetzlaff Divide and Conquer: Popular culture and social control in late capitalism / Popular Culture and Social Collectivities / Phil Cohen Subcultural Conflict and Working Class Community /Andy Bennett Subcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste / David Hesmondhalgh Subcultures, Scenes or Tribes? None of the above / Paul Théberge Everyday Fandom: Fan clubs, blogging, and the quotidian rhythms of the internet / Simon During Popular Culture on a Global Scale: A challenge for cultural studies? / Anthony D. Smith Towards a Global Culture? / Popular Culture and Ethnic Encounters / Simon Frith Playing with Real Feeling: Jazz and suburbia / Stuart Hall What is this "Black" in Black Popular Culture? / Hazel Carby What is this "Black" in Irish Popular Culture? / John G. Russell Consuming Passions: Spectacle, self-transformation, and the commodification of blackness in Japan / James Donald Kracauer and the Dancing Girls / Janell Hobson Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the "digital divide" in film and new media / Berndt Ostendorf Celebration or Pathology? Commodity or Art? The Dilemma of African-American expressive culture / VOLUME FOUR: POPULAR CULTURE - AESTHETICS, ETHICS, VALUES / Popular Aesthetics and Cultural Populism / David Novitz Ways of Artmaking: The high and the popular in art / Michael Schudson The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and sentimentality in academia / Simon Frith and Jon Savage Pearls and Swine: The intellectuals and the mass media / Gary Hall "It's a Thin Line between Love and Hate": Why cultural studies is so naff / John Street Aesthetics, Policy and the Politics of Popular Culture / Popular Taste and Cultural Value / Rosalind Coward Literature, Television, and Cultural Values / Pertti Alasuutari "I'm Ashamed to Admit It but I Have Watched Dallas": The moral hierarchy of television programmes / Simon Frith What is Bad Music? / Michael Pickering and Keith Negus The Value of Value: Simon Frith and the aesthetics of the popular With a reply by Simon Frith / Jérôme Bourdon Old and New Ghosts: Public service television and the popular / Social Ethics and Cultural Politics / Michael IgnatieffIs Nothing Sacred? The ethics of television / Andra Leurdijk Common Sense versus Political Discourse: Debating racism and multicultural society in Dutch talk shows / Michael Pickering and Sharon Lockyer Dear Shit-shovellers: Humour, censure and the discourse of complaint / Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering You Must Be Joking: The sociological critique of humour and comic media / Linda Duits and Liesbet van Zoonen Headscarves and Porno-Chic: Disciplining girls'bodies in the European multicultural society With commentary by Rosalind Gilland a rejoinder by Linda Duits and Liesbet van Zoonen Usha Zacharias and JaneArthurs (2007) 'Transnational Cultural Politics and the Shilpa-Jade Episode';Radha S. Hegde (2007) 'Of Race, Classy Victims and National Mythologies: Distracting Reality on Celebrity Big Brother'; Lieve Gies (2007) 'Pigs, Dogs, Cows, and Commerce in Celebrity Big Brother 2007)'; 'Big Brother's Frankenstein: The Media Construction of Jade Goody as an "Abject-Other"; Priya Virmani (2007)'Decoding the Celebrity Big Brother Scandal: The British Indian Way', pp. 455-69. / Popular Culture and Democratic Contours / Jim McGuigan The Cultural Public Sphere / Kees Brants Who's Afraid of Infotainment? / Liesbet van Zoonen A Day at the Zoo: Political communication, pigs and popular culture / John Street "Prime Time Politics": Popular culture and politicians in the UK / Joke Hermes Hidden Debates: Rethinking the relationship between popular culture and thepublic sphere / Peter Lunt and Paul Stenner The Jerry Springer Show as an Emotional Public Sphere
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-200-7
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1664
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 4
- Idioma: Inglés