{"product_id":"inventing-popular-culture-9780631234609","title":"Inventing Popular Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies, offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of popular culture. Addressing issues such as globalization, intellectualism, and consumerism, \u003ci\u003eInventing Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“John Storey's lively and provocative history of popular culture is interwoven with a characteristically clear and intelligent critique of the politics of its operation. Storey remains one of the most lucid and readable writers to be found in cultural studies, and this is a wonderfully tight, punchy, and illuminating book.” \u003ci\u003eGraeme Turner, University of Queensland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Storey accomplishes something truly unprecedented in this book as he traces the evolution of the idea of popular culture. His cogent analyses of the key polemics are compelling because they demonstrate so vividly why we still need cultural studies, if for no other reason than to better understand how intellectuals imagine ordinary people.” \u003ci\u003eJim Collins, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An excellent resource for academic libraries; as an introduction to cultural studies, this is hard to beat.\" \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Popular Culture as Folk Culture:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNature and Nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePastoral Life as Primitive Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMusic Hall and the Masses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagining the Past to Make the Present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Popular Culture as Mass Culture:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture Against Anarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Culture of Hyperdemocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Marxist Masses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWays of Seeing Other People as Masses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Popular Culture as the ‘Other’ of High Culture:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of High Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modernist Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Cultural Exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and Class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Popular as an Arena of Hegemony:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegemony: From Marxism to Cultural Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWandering from the Path of Righteousness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSide Saddle on the Golden Calf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Inclusive Media and Cultural Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: The Postmodern Condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBack to the Future: Opera Postmodern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Popular Culture as the ‘Roots’ and ‘Routes’ of Cultural Identities:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodern Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Roots of Cultural Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Routes of Cultural Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMixing Memory and Desire: Dusty Springfield and ‘The Land of Love’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda: Performing Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Popular Culture as Popular Art:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Gravity Fails: An Aesthetics of Popular Culture?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Aesthetic Essentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Popular Culture as Global Culture:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrading Commodities in the American Global Village.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘Local’ as the New Folk Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403458715991,"sku":"9780631234609","price":24.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631234609.jpg?v=1730483532","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-popular-culture-9780631234609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}