Dancing in spite of myself : essays on popular culture / Lawrence Grossberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossberg, Lawrence.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Rock music--United States--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Rock music--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg—well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies—has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one of the leading theorists of popular culture and, specifically, of rock music. Grossberg offers an original and sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing inseparability from contemporary structures of economic and political power and from our everyday lives.In the course of conducting this exploration into the meaning of "popularity," he investigates the nature of fandom, the social effects of rock music and youth culture, and the possibilities for understanding the history of popular texts and practices. Describing what he calls "the postmodernity of everyday life," Grossberg offers important insights into the relation of pop music to issues of postmodernity and inton the growing power of the new cultural conservatism and its relationship to "the popular." Exploring the limits of existing theories of hegemony in cultural studies, Grossberg reveals the ways in which popular culture is being mobilized in the service of economic and political struggles. In articulating his own critical practice, Grossberg surveys and challenges some of the major assumptions of popular culture studies, including notions of domination and resistance, mainstream and marginality, and authenticity and incorporation.Dancing in Spite of Myself provides an introduction to contemporary theories of popular culture and a clear statement of relationships among theories of the nature of rock music, postmodernity, and conservative hegemony.

Contents:

1. Dancing ... (popular music): Another boring day in paradise: rock and roll and the empowerment of everyday life (1984)

"I'd rather feel bad then not feel anything at all": rock and roll, pleasure and power (1984)

Rock, territorialization, and power (1991)

Is anybody listening? Does anybody care?: on "the state of rock" (1994)

2. In spite of ... (postmodernity): The indifference of television, or, mapping tv's popular (affective) economy (1987)

Postmodernity and affect: all dressed up with no place to go (1988)

Postmodernist elitisms and postmodern struggles (1990)

3. Myself ... (politics): "Its a sin": politics, postmodernity, and the popular (1988)

Introduction

The scandal of cultural studies

The specificity of American hegemony

Patrolling frontiers: the articulation of the popular

Postscript: fans, fanatics, and ideologues

Rockin' in conservative times

Conclusion: from media to popular culture to everyday life (1991).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-299) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822319177

0822319179

9780822396529

0822396521

OCLC:

896861959