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Klappentext Popular culture is as debated as it is pervasive. It is pervasive in that the symbolic worlds in which we live and out of which we construct sense are, in many different ways, understood as and within popular culture. It is debated in that it has often been polarized as a negative or positive counterpart to other dimensions of cultural activity. Volume One establishes the historical dimension necessary for the study of popular culture, showing how popular culture has developed over the past two centuries in the West, and how it has operated as a site of aesthetic debate and contestation as well as of communal pleasure and social interaction. The second and third volumes are devoted to the different theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches to popular culture. These have mainly developed since the late-nineteenth century, though pioneering discussion from this time has recently become sidelined. Along with some examples of such early discussion, the volumes feature contributions from the 'culture and civilization' tradition, the Frankfurt school, Chicago sociology, western Marxism, early cultural studies (rejecting the term 'culturalism'), structuralist and poststructuralist approaches, folkloristics, feminism and men's studies, postmodernism and postcolonial studies. The final volume concentrates on the questions and issues involved in the aesthetics and ethics of popular culture and their relation to the quality of public life. Volume Four specifically includes articles that deal with issues in popular culture studies that remain ongoing and in dynamic movement, or are in various ways contentious and unresolved. Volume One: Historical Perspectives on Popular Culture Volume Two: Theoretical Approaches Volume Three: Theoretical Paradigms Volume Four: Aesthetics, Ethics and Cultural Politics Zusammenfassung This four volume set reflects a range of perspectives on the widely debated subject of popular culture! giving the topic historical dimenson as well as considering its dynamic and ongoing nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR CULTURE Popular Culture in History "Punch and Judy" and Cultural Appropriation - Scott Cutler Shershow The Legitimization of the Circus in Late Georgian England - Marius Kwint Queen Caroline and the Sexual Politics of Popular Culture in London, 1820 - Anna Clark The Decline of Saint Monday - Douglas Reid Bloods in the Street: London street culture, "industrial literacy", and the emergence of mass culture in Victorian England - Edward Jacobs Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870-1900: Notes on the remaking of a working class - Gareth Stedman Jones Empire Theatres and the Empire: The popular geographical imagination in the age of empire - Andrew Crowhurst Teddy¿s Bear and the Sociocultural Transfiguration of Savage Beasts into Innocent Children, 1890-1920 - Donna Varga History in Popular Culture Empathy and Enfranchisement: Popular histories - Jerome de Groot John Ford¿s Drums along the Mohawk: The making of an American myth - Edward Countryman Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema - Ella Shohat A Fantasy of Witnessing - Gary Weissman The Ghost in the Luggage: Wallace and Braveheart: Post-colonial "pioneer" identities - Sally J. Morgan Archive Aesthetics and the Historical Imaginary: Wisconsin death trip - John Corner Romancing the Road: Road movies and images of mobility - Ron Eyerman and Orvar Löfgren VOLUME TWO: FROM MASS CULTURE CRITIQUE TO POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES Popular Culture - Early Considerations On a Possible Popular Culture - Thomas Wright What is Culture? - Derek Kahn Popular Culture and Mass Culture - Control and Consent A Theory of Mass Culture - D...
