Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780230361348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str.

Ann Brooks

Opis

Through popular culture, we can define, explore and experiment with our identities. This vibrant text provides an understanding of popular culture in a globalized world through the intersection of sociology and cultural studies, combining cultural theory with a wide range of examples from everyday life, including fashion, social networking and music, drawn from the United States, the UK and the Asia-Pacific.

Spis treści

Introduction: Popular Culture, A Hybrid Field of Study 1. Popular Culture, Hybridity and Cultural Consumption 2. Cultural Consumption and Cultural Identity 3. Popular Culture, Hybridity and Identity 4. Fashion and Style – the Material Dimension 5. Dance, Body and Popular Culture 6. Popular Culture, Hybridity and Hip-Hop Peter Webb 7. Visual Popular Culture 8. Digital Technology and Social Networking Conclusion.

O autorze

Ann Brooks is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of several books on contemporary and cultural theory, including Social Theory in Contemporary Asia: Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity (Routledge, 2010), Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets (Routledge, 2011) and Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity (Palgrave 2012) with co-author Ruth Simpson. She is also a member of the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 2011-2017.

Blurb

Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives provides an understanding of popular culture in a globalized world through the intersection of sociology and cultural studies. Exploring a diverse range of different forms of popular culture in everyday life – from fashion, to digital technology and social networking, to music, visual culture and dance – this vibrant book offers contextual insights into key areas of study, including hybridity, identity, popular culture consumption and production. This critical and far-reaching text is the ideal companion to popular culture modules in sociology, media studies, cultural studies, communication studies and other related disciplines.