Inventing Popular Culture

Inventing Popular Culture by John Storey

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, Inventing Popular Culture presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times. Provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field. 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. 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.

“John Storey's lively and provocative history of popular culture is interwoven with a characteristically clear and intelligent critique of the politics of its operationStorey remains one of the most lucid and readable writers to be found in cultural studies, and this is a wonderfully tight, punchy, and illuminating book.” Graeme Turner, University of Queensland

“Storey accomplishes something truly unprecedented in this book as he traces the evolution of the idea of popular culture. His cogent analyses of the key polemics are compelling because they demonstrate so vividly why we still need cultural studies, if for no other reason than to better understand how intellectuals imagine ordinary people.” Jim Collins, University of Notre Dame

"An excellent resource for academic libraries; as an introduction to cultural studies, this is hard to beat." Library Journal

John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. His publications include Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods (1996), What is Cultural Studies?: A Reader (1996), Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (second edition, 1998), Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life (1999), and Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (third edition, 2001).

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ISBN 13	9780631234609
ISBN 10	0631234608
Title	Inventing Popular Culture
Author	John Storey
Series	Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2003-04-18
Number of pages	176
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