Popular Culture Production and Consumption

This is a rich collection of essays highlighting the complex relationship between cultural production and consumption using examples from music, television, magazines, sports, and advertising. Classic, contemporary, and newly commissioned articles examine the key themes and debates on popular culture by key scholars. Using a multitude of perspectives the book explores how culture is commodified and turned into profit, including a study of contemporary celebrity and fandom. In addition, issues of social and cultural diversity are addressed in readings that are accessible and provocative for both students and academics.

C. Lee Harrington is Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliate of the Women's Studies program at Miami University of Ohio. Her articles have been published in several scholarly journals and she is the author, with Denise Bielby, of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life (1995). Her current research interests include media audiences and death penalty cause lawyering.

Denise D. Bielby is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the culture industries of television and film. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in journals including Journal of Popular Culture, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

List of Contributors

vii

Acknowledgments

x

Constructing the Popular: Cultural Production and Consumption

1

(16)

C. Lee Harrington

Denise D. Bielby

Part I What is Popular?

17

(48)

Making Artistic Popular Music: The Goal of True Folk

19

(5)

John Blacking

Batman, Deviance, and Camp

24

(12)

Andy Medhurst

Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Tranformation of Production-Consumption Relations in Professional Team Sport

36

(17)

Kimberly S. Schimmel

Art Appreciation at Caesars Palace

53

(12)

Mel McCombie

Part II Cultural Production/Commodification

65

(56)

Art as Collective Action

67

(13)

Howard S. Becker

Commodity Lesbianism

80

(14)

Danae Clark

Alternative to What?

94

(12)

Tom Frank

Imagineering the Inner City? Landscapes of Pleasure and the Commodification of Cultural Spectacle in the Postmodern City

106

(15)

Scott Salmon

Part III Taste, Reception, and Resistance

121

(80)

Encoding/Decoding

123

(10)

Stuart Hall

(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler

133

(21)

Laura Kipnis

``Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes'': The Cultural Production of Rock and Roll

154

(11)

Harris Friedberg

Site Reading?: Globalization, Identity, and the Consumption of Place in Popular Music

165

(15)

Minelle Mahtani

Scott Salmon

Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound

180

(21)

George Lipsitz

Part IV Authoring Texts/Readers Reading

201

(56)

The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature

203

(7)

John G. Cawelti

The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisiens

210

(9)

Walter Benjamin

Intertextuality

219

(15)

John Fiske

On Reading Soaps: A Semiotic Primer

234

(9)

Robert C. Allen

``Don't Have to DJ No More'': Sampling and the ``Autonomous'' Creator

243

(14)

David Sanjek

Part V Celebrity and Fandom

257

(71)

The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America

259

(24)

Joshua Gamson

Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton

283

(18)

Pamela Wilson

Fandom as Pathology: The Consequences of Characterization

301

(14)

Joli Jensen

Scottish Fans, not English Hooligans! Scots, Scottishness, and Scottish Football

315

(13)

Gerry P. T. Finn

Richard Giulianotti

Index

328

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