| 5000 Years of Popular Culture: Popular Culture before Printing Contributor(s): Schroeder, Fred E. H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0879721472 ISBN-13: 9780879721473 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1980 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 301 |
| LCCN: 79092474 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 334 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of insightful essays by outstanding artists, anthropologists, historians, classicists and humanists was developed to broaden the study of popular culture and to provide instances of original and innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Its first purpose is to broaden the study of popular culture which is too often regarded in the academic world as the entertainment and leisure time activities of the 20th century. Second, the collection gives recognition to the fact that a number of disciplines have been investigating popular phenomena on different fronts, and it is designed to bring examples of these disciplines together under the common rubric of "popular culture." Related to this is a third purpose of providing instances of original and innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Last, the collection should be a worthwhile contribution to the component disciplines as well as to the study of popular culture. |