Popular Culture; A Reader

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Popular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as a product of industry,Â an intellectual object of inquiry, andÂ an integral component of all our lives.The volume is divided into 7 thematic sections, and each section is preceded by an introduction which engages with, and critiques, the chapters that follow. The book containsÂ classic writings from all the 'big names;'Â plenty of contemporary cultural references that will appeal to students, including skateboarding, hip hop, fashion (Tommy Hilfiger, vintage) websites, Star Trek, Disney, etc;Â material organized in a skills-focused and learning-focused way;Â strong pedagogic features throughout, making this an excellent classroom text;Â pieces drawing on diverse national, disciplinary and subdisciplinary contexts; andÂ sensitivity to issues of gender, race and sexuality.

Entangling the Popular: An Introduction to Popular Culture: A Reader

(18)

Omayra Cruz

Raiford Guins

I. DELINEATING: CULTURE--MASS--POPULAR

(64)

`Culture' and `Masses'

(8)

Raymond Williams

From: Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana Press, 1976

`Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture'

(6)

F.R. Leavis

From: Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture. Cambridge: Minority Press, 1930

`A Theory of Mass Culture'

(8)

Dwight Macdonald

From: Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America. Ed. Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White. New York: The Free Press, 1957

`Femininity as Mas[s]querade: A Feminist Approach to Mass Culture'

(8)

Tania Modleski

From: High Theory/Low Culture: Analyzing Popular Television and Film. Ed. Colin MacCabe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986

`The Popular'

(9)

Morag Shiach

From: Discourses on Popular Culture: Class, Gender and History in Cultural Analysis, 1730 to the Present. London: Polity Press, 1989

`Notes on Deconstructing ``The Popular'''

(8)

Stuart Hall

From: People's History and Socialist Theory. Ed. Raphael Samuel. London: Routledge, 1981

```Pueblo Pueblo'': Popular Culture in Time'

(11)

Juan Flores

From: From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000

II. COMMODIFYING: THE COMMODITY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL LIFE

(64)

`The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof'

(7)

Karl Marx

From: Capital: Volume One. A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production (Orig. 1867). Reprinted in The Marx-Engels Reader. R. Tucker (ed). London: W.W. Norton & Co, 1972

`The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'

(7)

Walter Benjamin

From: Illuminations. Ed. H. Arendt and trans. H. Zohn. London: Fontana, 1992 (orig. 1936)

`Culture Industry Reconsidered'

103

(6)

Theodor W. Adorno

From: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. London: Routledge, 1991 (orig. English trans., 1975)

`The Commodity as Spectacle'

109

(6)

Guy Debord

From: Society of the Spectacle. Detroit, MI: Black and Red, 1970

`Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture'

115

(14)

Fredric Jameson

From: Signature of the Visible. London: Routledge, 1990

`Introduction to The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Late Capital'

129

(18)

Lisa Lowe

David Lloyd

From: The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Late Capital. Ed. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997

III. MARKETING: SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS OF POPULAR CULTURE

147

(64)

`Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization'

151

(8)

Paul Smith

From: No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers. Ed. Andrew Ross. New York: Verso, 1997

`America's Paradox'

159

(9)

Ellis Cashmore

From: The Black Culture Industry. London: Routledge, 1997

`Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects'

168

(16)

Inderpal Grewal

From: positions 7.3, 1999

`Corporate Disney in Action'

184

(13)

Janet Wasko

From: Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy. Cambridge: Polity, 2001

`How Tiger Lost His Stripes: Post-Nationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration, and the Commodification of Culture'

197

(14)

Henry Yu

From: Post-Nationalist American Studies. Ed. J.C. Rowe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000

IV. PRACTICING: POPULAR TASTES AND WAYS OF CONSUMING

211

(68)

`Popular Discrimination'

215

(8)

John Fiske

From: Modernity and Mass Culture. Ed. James Naremore and Patrick Brantlinger. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991

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

223

(18)

Laura Kipnis

From: Cultural Studies. Ed. Lawrence Grossberg et al. London: Routledge, 1992

`Symbolic Creativity'

241

(8)

Paul Willis

From: Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1990

`Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching'

249

(14)

Henry Jenkins

From: Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction. Ed. Constance Penley et al. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991

`Sleaze Mania, Euro-Trash and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture'

263

(16)

Joan Hawkins

From: Film Quarterly 53.2, 2000

V. VOICING: IDENTITIES AND ARTICULATION

279

(70)

`What is this ``Black'' in Black Popular Culture?'

285

(9)

Stuart Hall

From: Black Popular Culture. Ed. Gina Dent. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1992

```Bombay, UK, Yuba City'': Bhangra Music and the Engendering of Diaspora'

294

(15)

Gayatri Gopinath

From: Diaspora 4.3, 1995

`The Face of America and the State of Emergency'

309

(15)

Lauren Berlant

From: The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997

`Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self'

324

(14)

Jose Esteban Munoz

From: Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999

`Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn'

338

(11)

Richard Fung

From: How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video. Ed. Bad-Object Choices. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1991

VI. STYLING: SUBCULTURE AND POPULAR PERFORMANCE

349

(92)

`Subculture'

355

(17)

Dick Hebdige

From: Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Routledge, 1979

`Second-Hand Dresses and the Role of the Ragmarket'

372

(11)

Angela McRobbie

From: Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses: An Anthology of Fashion and Music. Ed. Angela McRobbie. Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1988

`The Media Development of ``Subcultures'' (or the Sensational Story of ``Acid House'')'

383

(18)

Sarah Thornton

From: Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996

`A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Politics, Style and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop'

401

(16)

Tricia Rose

From: Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture. Ed. Andrew Ross and Tricia Rose. New York and London: Routledge, 1994

`If I Had a Dick: Queers, Punks, and Alternative Acts'

417

(12)

Cynthia Fuchs

From: Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory. Ed. Thomas Swiss, John Sloop and Andrew Herman. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998

`Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance'

429

(12)

Judith Halberstam

From: Female Masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000

VII. LOCATING: SPACE, PLACE, AND POWER

441

(93)

`Walking in the City'

449

(13)

Michel de Certeau

From: The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984

`Seance, Tricknowlogy, Skateboarding, and the Space of Youth'

462

(17)

Michael Nevin Willard

From: Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America. Ed. Joe Austin and Michael Nevin Willard. New York: New York University Press, 1998

`Straight Out the Barrio: Ozomatli and the Importance of Place in the Formation of Chicano/a Popular Culture in Los Angeles'

479

(16)

Victor Hugo Viesca

From: Cultural Values 4.4 (October), 2000

`Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve: Notes Towards a Diaspora History of Black Ephemera'

495

(9)

Paul Gilroy

From: Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures. London: Serpent's Tail, 1993

`Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-Colonial Politics of Sound'

504

(16)

George Lipsitz

From: Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and The Poetics of Place. New York and London: Verso, 1994

`Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces'

520

(14)

Lisa Nakamura

From: Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. London: Routledge, 2002

Index

534

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