Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to GlobalizationISBN: 978-0-631-23460-9
Paperback
168 pages
May 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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John Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies,
offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of
popular culture. Addressing issues such as globalization,
intellectualism, and consumerism, Inventing Popular Culture
presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts
of recent times.
- 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.