Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure
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Focusing on two major forms of popular culture - rock music and sport - David Rowe outlines the key issues involved in the understanding the diverse aspects of popular culture. Rock music and sport encapsulate the contradictory elements of popular culture: the tensions between the commercial manufacture and marketing of popular products on the one hand, and their potential for articulating a resistive independence on the other. David Rowe demonstrates that popular culture cannot be adequately understood without a clear grasp of the ways in which economics, ideology and culture interrelate. This relationship is explored through examples such as an examination of punk rock music in terms of its presentation a
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803977018
ISBN13:9780803977013
Release Date:November 1995
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:6.0" x 9.0"
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