Inventing popular culture : from folklore to globalization / John Storey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Storey, John, 1950-

Series:

Blackwell manifestos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Popular culture--Philosophy.

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Physical Description:

xii, 148 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Summary:

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, the 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. The 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:

1 Popular Culture as Folk Culture 1

Nature and Nationalism 2

Pastoral Life as Primitive Culture 6

Music Hall and the Masses 10

Imagining the Past to Make the Present 13

2 Popular Culture as Mass Culture 16

Culture Against Anarchy 16

The Culture of Hyperdemocracy 24

The Marxist Masses 27

Ways of Seeing Other People as Masses 30

3 Popular Culture as the "Other" of High Culture 32

The Making of High Culture 32

The Modernist Revolution 41

The Politics of Cultural Exclusion 43

Culture and Class 45

4 Popular Culture as an Arena of Hegemony 48

Hegemony: From Marxism to Cultural Studies 48

Wandering from the Path of Righteousness 53

Side Saddle on the Golden Calf 56

An Inclusive Cultural Studies 61

5 Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture 63

The New Sensibility 63

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: The Postmodern Condition 64

Postmodern Hyperconsciousness 70

Back to the Future: Opera Postmodern? 74

6 Popular Culture as the "Roots" and "Routes" of Cultural Identities 78

Postmodern Identities 79

The Roots of Cultural Identities 81

The Routes of Cultural Identities 86

Mixing Memory and Desire: Dusty Springfield and "The Land of Love" 89

Coda: Performing Identities 91

7 Popular Culture as Popular or Mass Art 92

Cultural Power 92

When Gravity Fails: An Aesthetics of Popular Culture? 95

Beyond Aesthetic Essentialism 104

8 Popular Culture as Global Culture 107

Globalization 107

Trading Commodities for Culture in the American Global Village 109

The "Local" as the New Folk Culture 116.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [130]-139) and index.

ISBN:

0631234594

0631234608

OCLC:

51290023