Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)

Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)

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, <i>Inventing Popular Culture</i> presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field.<br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>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.</li> </ul>