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....

This collection focuses on social science perspectives on popular music since the late 1970s when the drift away from Musicology started. The latter focuses upon music as a sequence of notes and silence, rather than the social, economic, cultural and political contexts in which popular music is produced, exchanged and consumed. Since the 1970s, social scientists like Simon Frith, Larry Grossberg, Will Straw, Paul Willis, Andy Bennett, Keith Negus, Howard Becker and Sarah Thornton have intensively examined the phenomenon of popular music from a social science and cultural studies perspective....

SAGE BENCHMARKS IN CULTURE & SOCIETY

SAGE Benchmarks in Culture & Society presents four-volume collections of key classic and contemporary articles on the substantive interdisciplinary topics at the heart of the social sciences. This series explores core topics of research and debate, including cultural theory, representation, identity, popular music and material culture. Each set presents a full contextualizing introduction by the editor and draws upon articles that map out each topic's history and debates, and its theory and methods.

This series presents...

SAGE BENCHMARKS IN CULTURE & SOCIETY

SAGE Benchmarks in Culture & Society presents four-volume collections of key classic and contemporary articles on the substantive interdisciplinary topics at the heart of the social sciences. This series explores core topics of research and debate, including cultural theory, representation, identity, popular music and material culture. Each set presents a full contextualizing introduction by the editor and draws upon articles that map out each topic's history and debates, and its theory and methods.

This series presents...

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