1st Edition
Popular Culture Cavespace to Cyberspace
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
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A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular... Read more
Contents Foreword
- Preface
- What Is Our Goal?
- Part I: Forethoughts
- Back to the Ice Age
- Definitions
- Popular-Common Culture
- A Movable Feast
- Perspectives
- Words, Words, Words
- The Prince of Pop
- Anti-Pop
- Fame and the Famous
- The Mosaic As Metaphor
- New Parameters
- Part II: Time and Space
- Time
- Hurry-Up Time
- In the Beginning
- Cavespace
- Tombspace
- Templespace
- Forumspace
- Medieval
- F.D.R.
- Elvis the Incredible
- Twisting
- Music
- Postmodern
- Some Postmodern Questions
- Cyberspace
- The Return of the Luddites
- Gardenspace to Cyberspace
- Part III: Themes
- People
- Lore
- Fakelore
- Poplore
- Springlore
- Icons
- Golden Bangladesh
- Global Village
- Part IV: Links
- East and West
- Everyman to Everyfan
- Ray and Ronald
- Part V: Afterthoughts
- The Iceman Cometh--Again
- We Are Out--and Yet . . .
- Monoculture
- Fling Wide the Gates!
- The Pop Heard Round the World
- Some Final Thoughts
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Biography
Frank Hoffmann (Author) , Marshall Fishwick (Author) , B Lee Cooper (Author)
