1st Edition
From Revolution to Revelation Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies
By Tara Brabazon
Copyright 2005
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the ’post-youth’ generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in... Read more
Contents: Introduction: changing the dedication. Building the Hacienda: The archaeology of X: making a (post) youth culture; Settling accounts with Birmingham; Thank you for the history lesson; Always on my mind: building popular memory studies. Sound And Vision: Reading on your feet and dancing through the revolution; Dancing with the chairman of the board; Here to stay? 24 hour (post) party people; Looking through rouge coloured glasses; Conclusion: save Ferris; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Tara Brabazon is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia
’People like to call psychoanalysis Freudian, philosophy Hegelian, postmodernism Baudrillardian...but when it comes to cultural studies, make mine Brabazonian. From Revolution to Revelation is a superb book that picks apart popular memory, separating useless, morbid nostalgia from inspiring, vital recall. In her racy, electric writing, Brabazon takes us from the smallest, most endearing details of popular texts and events through to the full-blown creation of new, fluid communities. Hers is a cultural politics that comes with anger, laughter, style and wisdom. This is a book that brings both revolution and revelation.’ Adrian Martin, Film Critic 'From the first to the last page, From Revolution to Revelation is a very personal book. Brabazon's interest in popular memories that are partly hr own guarantees for an immensely entertaining style of writing...her studies keep the promise of providing revelation.' American Studies
