Rethinking popular culture: contemporary perspectives in cultural studies. / edited by Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991Description: vii, 501 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0520068920 (alk. paper); 0520068939 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Ethnology | Popular cultureDDC classification: 306.4 LOC classification: GN357.R48 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY | GN357.R48 (Browse shelf) | Available | K/3088/0186/23 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction: rethinking popular culture -- Popular culture in historical studies: Printing and the people -- Workers revolt: the great cat massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin -- The rise of the saloon -- William Shakespeare and the American people: a study in cultural transformation -- The dream world of mass consumption -- Popular culture in anthropological studies: Deep play: notes on the Balinese Cockfight -- La Pensee Bourgeoise: Western society as culture -- Jokes -- Popular culture in sociological studies: Processing fads and fashions: an organization-set analysis of cultural industry systems -- Movies of the week -- Sport and social class -- Cultural entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America -- The public sphere -- Popular culture in cultural criticism: Base and superstructure in Marxist cultural theory -- The Suit and the photograph -- Written clothing -- What is an author? -- Interpretive communities and variable literacies -- the functions of romance reading --
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