| Popular Culture Four-Volume Set Edition Contributor(s): Pickering, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1848602006 ISBN-13: 9781848602007 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $1128.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 2009937252 |
| Series: Sage Benchmarks in Culture and Society |
| Physical Information: 1704 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Popular culture is as debated as it is pervasive. It is pervasive in that the symbolic worlds in which we live and out of which we construct sense are in many different ways, understood as and within popular culture. It is debated that it has been polarized as a negative or positive counterpart to other dimensions of cultural activity. In Popular Culture, a four-volume text, volume one establishes the historical dimension necessary for the study of popular culture. The second and third volumes are devoted to the different theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches to popular culture. The final volume concentrates on the questions and issues involved in the aesthetics and ethics of popular culture and their relation to the quality of public life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pickering, Michael: - Michael has published over a hundred articles and chapters in edited collections. These cover a number of areas including popular music, racism and popular culture, imperialism and theatrical history, Mass Observation, working-class writing, news and documentary, stereotyping and representation, humour and comedy, creativity and cultural production, media and memory, and historical hermeneutics. Overall his work covers the fields of media and communication studies, social and cultural history, and the sociology of art and culture. Michael has also written extensively on research methods, having edited collections on methods in cultural studies and memory studies, and been co-author of Researching Communications (Bloomsbury, 2007), along with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock. He has recently completed a major AHRC research project on music in the workplace, with Marek Korczynski of Nottingham University and Emma Robertson of La Trobe University. Their book, Rhythms of Labour: The History of Music at Work in Britain, is published by Cambridge University Press. With Emily Keightley, Michael is currently involved in a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on media and memory. Their book The Mnemonic Imagination is published by Palgrave Macmillan. |