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Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization

ISBN: 978-0-631-23460-9
Paperback
168 pages
May 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field.

  • Traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century “discovery” of folk culture to contemporary accounts of the cultural impact of globalization.

  • Examines the relationship between the concept of popular culture and key issues in cultural analyses such as hegemony, postmodernism, identity, questions of value, consumerism, and everyday life.
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