Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization

1. Popular Culture as Folk Culture:.

Nature and Nationalism.

Pastoral Life as Primitive Culture.

Music Hall and the Masses.

Imagining the Past to Make the Present.

Notes.

2. Popular Culture as Mass Culture:.

Culture Against Anarchy.

The Culture of Hyperdemocracy.

The Marxist Masses.

Ways of Seeing Other People as Masses.

Notes.

3. Popular Culture as the ‘Other’ of High Culture:.

The Making of High Culture.

The Modernist Revolution.

The Politics of Cultural Exclusion.

Culture and Class.

Notes.

4. Popular as an Arena of Hegemony:.

Hegemony: From Marxism to Cultural Studies.

Wandering from the Path of Righteousness.

Side Saddle on the Golden Calf.

An Inclusive Media and Cultural Studies.

Notes.

5. Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture:.

The New Sensibility.

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: The Postmodern Condition.

Back to the Future: Opera Postmodern.

Notes.

6. Popular Culture as the ‘Roots’ and ‘Routes’ of Cultural Identities:.

Postmodern Identities.

The Roots of Cultural Identities.

The Routes of Cultural Identities.

Mixing Memory and Desire: Dusty Springfield and ‘The Land of Love’.

Coda: Performing Identities.

Notes.

7. Popular Culture as Popular Art:.

Cultural Power.

When Gravity Fails: An Aesthetics of Popular Culture?.

Beyond Aesthetic Essentialism.

Notes.

8. Popular Culture as Global Culture:.

Globalisation.

Trading Commodities in the American Global Village.

The ‘Local’ as the New Folk Culture.

Notes.

References.

Index.