Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction (Ray & Pat Browne Book)
A Basic Introduction (Ray & Pat Browne Book S.)
Harold E. Hinds
ISBN: | 9780879728717 |
Publisher: | Bowling Green University Popular Press,US |
Published: | 17 February, 2006 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction (Ray & Pat Browne Book)
A Basic Introduction (Ray & Pat Browne Book S.)
Harold E. Hinds
Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early practitioners of the discipline stubbornly set about creating the theoretical and methodological framework upon which a deeper understanding could be founded. Through seminal essays that document the maturation of the field as it gradually made headway toward legitimacy, Popular Culture Theory and Methodology provides students of popular culture with both the historical context and the critical apparatus required for further growth. For all its progress, the study of popular culture remains a site of healthy questioning. What exactly is popular culture? How should it be studied? What forces come together in producing, disseminating, and consuming it? Is it always conformist, or has it the power to subvert, refashion, resist, and destabilize the status quo? How does it differ from folk culture, mass culture, commercial culture? Is the line between "high" and "low" merely arbitrary? Do the popular arts have a distinctive aesthetics? This collection offers a wide range of responses to these and similar questions. Edited by Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, Popular Culture Theory and Methodology chart
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