The myth of popular culture from Dante to Dylan / Perry Meisel.
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TextSeries: Blackwell manifestosPublisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xv, 206 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444317497; 1444317490; 9781444317503; 1444317504; 1282382535; 9781282382534; 9781405199339; 1405199334; 9781405199346; 1405199342Subject(s): Popular culture | Arts, Modern | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture | Arts, Modern | Popular culture | Populaire cultuur | Popmuziek | BellettrieGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth of popular culture from Dante to Dylan.DDC classification: 306 LOC classification: NX449.5 | .M45 2010Other classification: 71.59 | 71.50 Online resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Myth of Popular Culture; Contents; Preface: The Resistance to Pop; Acknowledgments; Part I "The Battle of the Brows"; 1 A History of High and Low; 2 Pop Culture in the Spectator; 3 Pop and Postmodernism; Part II Dialectics of Pop; 4 The Death of Kings: American Fiction from Cooper to Chandler; 5 Knock on Any Door: Three Histories of Hollywood; 6 The Blues Misreading of Gospel: A History of Rock and Roll; Part III The World of Bob Dylan; 7 Dylan and the Critics; 8 Words and Music; 9 Dylan Himself; 10 The Three Icons: Sinatra, Presley, Dylan; Works Cited; Index.
The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan is a fascinating examination of the cultural traditions of the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music which leads us to redefine our concept of the division between "high" and "low" culture.: A stimulating history of high and low culture from Dante Alighieri to Bob Dylan, providing a controversial defence of popular culture; Seeks to rebut the durable belief that only high culture is 'dialectical' and popular culture is not by turning Theodor Adorno's theories on 'pop' against themselves; Presents a cri.
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