2nd Edition
A History of Popular Culture More of Everything, Faster and Brighter
200 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.
A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War Two: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a... Read more
Preface. Introduction. 1. Popular culture in an early twentieth-century environment 2. Popular culture joins the war effort 3. Reconfiguing time and space 4. Picture this: a new world of images 5. All the world's a stage: contemporary entertainment in its many forms 6. Happily spaced out: the topography of pleasure and diversion 7. The unintended outcomes Conclusion: Reconditioning the human condition. Buibilography. Index.
Biography
Raymond F. Betts was Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and the author of many books on culture and empire, including Decolonization (Routledge 2004).
