Mix It Up - Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society

Mix It Up demonstrates how a sociological perspective can help us better understand popular culture as a dynamic, durable and significant feature of modern society. With lively prose and the perfect mix of resonant historical cases, David Grazian investigates the role of media and popular culture in everyday life. Now with a new chapter on the globalisation of pop culture, Mix It Up explores how the media industry is organised; the increasingly blurry relationship between cultural consumption and production; and the social significance of leisure activities.

About the author

David Grazian is?Professor of Sociology and Communication and Faculty Director of the Urban Studies Program?at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on popular culture and mass media, urban sociology, and ethnographic methods. In his research, he employs a variety of ethnographic and other qualitative methods to study the production and consumption of commercial entertainment in cities.?His books include?Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs?(2003),?On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife?(2008),?and?American Zoo: A Sociological Safari?(2015). He is currently writing a book on nonstandard urban workspaces in the new economy for the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.

Product details

• Authors: David Grazian, David (University of Pennsylvania) Grazian, Grazian David
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2017
• EAN: 9780393602791
• ISBN: 978-0-393-60279-1
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 407 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Media, Information & Communication Industries