Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization

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John Wiley & Sons, Feb 4, 2009 - Social Science - 176 pages
John 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, Inventing Popular Culture presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times.

  • Provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field.
  • 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.
  • Examines 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.
 

Contents

1 Popular Culture as Folk Culture
1
2 Popular Culture as Mass Culture
16
3 Popular Culture as the Other of High Culture
32
4 Popular Culture as an Arena of Hegemony
48
5 Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture
63
6 Popular Culture as the Roots and Routes of Cultural Identities
78
7 Popular Culture as Popular or Mass Art
92
8 Popular Culture as Global Culture
107
Notes
121
References
130
Index
140
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About the author (2009)

John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. His publications include Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods (1996), What is Cultural Studies?: A Reader (1996), Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (second edition, 1998), Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life (1999), and Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (third edition, 2001).

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