{"product_id":"popular-culture-isbn-9780631217107","title":"Popular Culture","description":"This is a rich collection of contemporary perspectives on how culture is produced and commodified using current examples from music, television, magazines, sports, and advertising. Incorporating a variety of theoretical frameworks, the book addresses, in addition, issues of social and cultural diversity in readings by key scholars that are accessible and provocative for both students and academics.  List of Contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Constructing the Popular: Cultural Production and Consumption: C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: What is Popular?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Making Artistic Music Popular Music: The Goal of True Folk: John Blacking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Batman, Deviance, and Camp: Andy Medhurst.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Transformation of Production-Consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelations in Professional Team Sport: Kimberly S. Schimmel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Art Appreciation at Caesar's Palace: Mel McCombie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Cultural Production\/Commodification:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Art as Collection Action: Howard S. Becker.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Commodity Lesbianism: Danae Clark.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Alternative to What?: Tom Frank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Imagineering the Inner City?: Landscapes of Pleasure and the Commodification of Cultural Spetacle in the Postmodern City: Scott Salmon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Taste, Reception, and Resistance:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Encoding\/Decoding:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuart Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading \u003ci\u003eHustler\u003c\/i\u003e: Laura Kipnis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes: The Cultural Production of Rock and Roll: Harris Friedberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Site Reading?: Globalization, Identity and the Consumption of Place in Popular Music: Minelle Mahtani and Scott Salmon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound: George Lipsitz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Authoring Texts\/Readers Reading:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature: John G. Cawelti.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eTableux Parisien\u003c\/i\u003e: Walter Benjamin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Intertextuality: John Fiske.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. On Reading Soaps: A Semiotic Primer: Robert C. Allen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Don't Have to DJ No More: Sampling and the \"Autonomous\" Creator: David Sanjek.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Celebrity and Fandom:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America: Joshua Gamson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton: Pamela Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Fandom as Pathology: Joli Jenson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Scottish Fans, not English Hooligans! Scots, Scottishness, and Scottish Football: Gary P. T. Finn and Richard Giulianotti.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"In putting together a reader on Hustler, football hooligans, hip-hop, soap operas, and Dolly Parton, Harrington and Bielby demonstrate excellent taste. If you find that statement improbable, you will expand your horizons by taking a look at the superb scholarship contained in this collection. If, on the other hand, you think it perfectly plausible, you will use this book anyway to teach your courses, to guide your research, and to deepen your understanding of the cultural seas in which we all swim.\" \u003ci\u003eWendy Griswold, Northwestern University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is a most welcome addition to the field of media studies. Harrington and Bielby have chosen wisely by including a range of historical and more contemporary pieces that explore the production-consumption nexus in fresh and innovative ways. Art, music, prime-time television, movies, sports, video games, urban landscapes, all of this and more, will lead students and scholars alike to think comparatively about popular culture.\" \u003ci\u003eRon Lembo, Amherst College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eC. Lee Harrington\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSoap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1995). Her current research interests include media audiences and death penalty cause lawyering.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenise D. Bielby\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJournal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989814591717,"sku":"NP9780631217107","price":48.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631217107.jpg?v=1761785560","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/popular-culture-isbn-9780631217107","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}